What I was saying earlier:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/regret-inform-history-not-save-132700762.htmlI regret to inform you all that history will not save America from itself
I know you've been hearing this proclamation on network news and reading it in columns for years.
"History will judge us." "History will repudiate Donald Trump and the January 6 rioters."
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This sounds good, but there is a danger in the notion that history will reveal the truth of our moment and sort the good from the bad.
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The past does not change, but our telling of it does. Americans are famous for concealment by omission. It is only in the last year or two that there has been widespread awareness of the Tulsa Massacre of 1921, for example, when racists destroyed "Black Wall Street" and murdered the people who lived there in a fit of organized rage.
That was only one of our country's multiple genocides against Black Americans, but we don't talk about a lot of those. They aren't pleasant, and they do not fit in with the narrative that America is the longest standing multi-racial democracy in the world.
Just as it was easier for Americans in the past to forget the importance of the Tulsa Massacre, it could be easier for Americans in the future to forget about the ugliness that led to the January 6 attack on The Capitol.
It's also possible that future Americans could manipulate the events around January 6. We already saw that happen immediately after the attack. Some right wing media tried to pin the blame on Antifa and polling indicates that now that what half of Republicans believe. It's quite possible that future generations could believe that as well.
In short, history is written by the victors. To assume history will agree with us is to assume we will win. Instead of assuming we will win, we should focus on making sure we actually win.
But no, "Americans" are not famous for concealment by omission. Westerners are. "Americans" did not find it easy to forget the Tulsa Massacre. Americans were the victims in the Tulsa Massacre! It was the
Western occupiers, who massacred those Americans, who also found it easy to forget it.