Perpetuating Lies

African American History, African Diaspora, Afro-Latinos, Central America, descendants of slaves, slavery

In some fashion we all are guilty of perpetuating lies and rationalizing omissions. Sometimes following the politically correct advice of, “if you can’t say anything nice don’t say anything at all,” and in polite company avoiding race, religion, and people’s mothers effectively eliminates the possibility of accurate historical presentation and dialog. Recently, MPCPMP was confronted with the choice of the ends justifying the means when we worked to install a historic Read More

Perspective

African American History, slavery

Historical narrative is based upon more than documentation. “Facts” are placed within a perspective – the writer’s, the reader’s, the listener’s, and all have points of view. In the same manner that most of the maps of the world have as their focal center the Northern Hemisphere with North America and Europe as physically exaggerated entities, much of history that is presented and learned is positioned with bias. Edward E. Read More