The mortal fear shown by these patriarchal white supremacists just underscores how important antiracist teaching really is. They know Fred Hampton was right when he said "you can jail a revolutionary, but you can’t jail the revolution.” But they're gonna try like hell anyway.
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1422902658097111040
We are in the midst of what I think is a revolutionary reconfiguration of the ways in which History is envisaged, contemplated, and confronted. Those who see History as national celebration and dogma are being challenged in the public sphere on a larger scale than ever before.
The questions of who gets to speak, whose history is "important," and how to confront complicated, conflicted, and violent pasts are widely discussed in historical scholarship. But the fruits of those discussions are now in the public sphere as never before, I think.
And that's a good thing! The arc of the universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend itself. How we see ourselves as entwined in our collective pasts and how we use that perspective to shape a better future is key. And *that's* why we're seeing these attacks on History.
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