to pick at the scab


picking at the past, memories of that unwanted experience, and at any undesirable present condition:
“what is unique about helms – and from my viewpoint, unforgivable – is his willingness to pick at the scab of the great wound of american history, the legacy of slavery and segregation, and to inflame racial resentment against african

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