we were eight years in power is the title of the latest book by tana haci cults one of the main contributors to the discourse on the conflict ridden relationship between black and white americans. the eight years in power maybe elsewhere in the new museum the dialogue is more powerful than ever. i i think that this museum long after i'm gone or to be the place that becomes that safe ground for people to come and grapple with what separated but that this sort of be the place that tells the candid truth the unvarnished truth so that you deal with things that are painful but it also ought to be the place that allows us not just to see african-americans as people who struggle but african-americans as people who loved who lived who built and so what you really hope is that in the future this will help people see a more complete fuller notion of black america and then by extension a fuller sense of what america can mean. and a lot of folks just want to be right. they just want to be right you know i mean it's like you know everything i say and the whole authority is it would be a right and i have