Robin Young: Does it ever get painful?
Jerome Grant: For me, I haven't taken the time to go through the building fully. It's difficult for me. … I take it time by time. The first time that I really went through the history gallery downstairs, was actually three weeks ago, where I've fully seen a lot of stuff that's really heartbreaking, very difficult to digest.
Robin Young: If you don't mind, like what?
Jerome Grant: I"ve seen some of the slave ship pictures, the railroads, I mean, everything from shackles, the whole nine, it's difficult, you know, it's difficult to live in a world where we are deemed to be free Americans, and then to see that that it was very troubling for a lot of us to ...
Robin Young: How recently!
Jerome Grant: Oh yeah, so it's very difficult. But at the end of the day, you can't understand your future unless you understand your past, and I'm working on it.
Source: Jerome Grant - "African-American Museum Chef Showcases 'Edible Exhibit'", Here & Now, KBUR, 6 Feb 2017, http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/02/06/jerome-grant-museum-african-american-history