Europeans have lied to us about our history
I grow tired of the outrage that we express about how Europeans have lied to us about our history. It shows to me a fierce determination to remain victims. I mean, whose job is it for us to know our history and tell our stories? Surely you don't expect the same people who enslaved and colonized us to tell us our history? Are we that naive? And if they do they are going to tell it from their perspective. That is the nature of the beast. This is 2021 and it is our job to tell our own and teach our own. That means that we are accountable and only we. You know the African proverb, "Until the lion has an historian the hunter will always be a hero." We know that we have been abused. We know that we have suffered. I get it. But I also get that we are more than capable of researching our history. We are not helpless. And we are not babies. So if your major contribution is to cry and whine about how "they did not tell us the tr...