Hasan Kwame Jeffries·TEDxOhioStateUniversity
Why we must confront hard historical truths
Summary
This story has a strong message. The speaker is a black man who is a historian and has children. Now, it’s spreading inequality in the United States. Furthermore, people are forgetting histories, are not teaching it correctly, and there are people who don’t do anything about it.
To know about the history of white and black is difficult and painful. People want it to be turned into nostalgic memories.
It doesn’t mean to rationalize, avoid or forget about slavery, James Madison, Jim Crow, and etc. People might think that not remembering it is not repeating it.
The speaker suggests that it’s wrong. If people don’t remember the past, they will continue it. It creates inequality and injustice in the first place. He tells us that what we must do is we must disrupt the continuum of hard history. It’s seeking and speaking the truth, confronting, magnifying, and teaching hard history to children. Acting on truth to create a fair and just society seriously.
Words in this story
enslaved / held in slavery
confront / face
emancipated / e·man·ci·pate / liberate, free, release, unshackle
quintessential /quin·tes·sen·tial / typical, prototypical, stereotypical
marginalized / keep a person or something away from the center of attention or power, isolate, cut off, shut out
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