Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
Bashir Muhammad Akinyele is a history teacher who recognizes the profound gulf between remembering the past and remembering history class lessons. Mr. Akinyele recounts how ineluctable facts of the past are washed white by design to destroy truth.
Remembering falsehoods of history blames the innocent for the crimes of their tormentors.
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
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Brother Malcolm X (Omawele El Hajj Malik El Shabazz), the Black nationalist freedom fighter and human rights leader of the 1950s and 1960s, said that the oppression of Black people and people of color are due to a world-wide conspiracy of White supremacy. I have spent almost a year preparing to go back to college to finish my masters and PhD graduate studies in history. Because of Malcolm X’s lucid critiques of the world’s movement to dominate and subjugate Black people, and people of color, I want to compete my studies and research on…
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billziegler1947 
Thomas Jefferson is the perfect person to go with this headline. I have recently been reading the book series by Mumia Abu Jamal and Stephen Vittoria called Murder Incorporated: empire, genocide and manifest destiny, and in it it talks about TJ’s call for the extermination of Indigenous people as well as his rape of Sally Hemings. Historians dare to call it a relationship when in reality it was a brutal rape. She was only 16 years old, enslaved without a choice to say no to this 47 year old perverted man. It’s shameful that this racist, rapist continues to be celebrated in the classroom.
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