06-30-2022, 05:03 AM
(06-29-2022, 09:23 AM)Sled21 Wrote: Basically the woke crowd wants to throw every history book away, because no one who lived before about 1970 was not flawed in their thinking, so nothing ever accomplished is worth celebrating or remembering.
As opposed to the fantasy history conservatives want us to believe?
Expanding history to include the lives of others who lived it is a good thing…even if you don’t like the stories they have to tell. You can’t tell Thomas Jefferson’s story fully, for example, without telling the story of Sally Hemings. It was part of who he is. If it points out he was a flawed man, well he was. You cannot learn from the past if you refuse to acknowledge it. You can celebrate greatness without canonizing people. Heroes often have clay feet. I’d rather celebrate people who do well despite their flaws than laud them as perfect.
There is also the reality that this country’s Constitution was written by white men for white men. So yes it was on one hand forward thinking at the same time also being very much if it’s time. No one gets harmed by pointing that out.
Why are conservatives so afraid our real history? How can knowing the good, bad, and yes even the ugly of our history be negative. It is what it is. A great country and people aren’t afraid to face the past and learn things. It is how we can achieve that goal of a “more perfect union”
BTW, woke is also not a negative. It means understanding and being aware of injustice, empathy towards others, respect for everyone. It is far better to be woke in 2022 than an ostrich living in the past.
Fueled by the pursuit of greatness.
