There are moments when I feel beyond aggravated at the hatred the left is constantly spewing. I don’t understand what these people don’t understand. Any therapist with even an inkling of intelligence will tell you that you can never heal if you keep reliving the trauma, so what are we doing on the Instagram pages like @africanarchives that are almost solely dedicated to reminding people of the violence that black Americans faced sometimes as far as 100+ years ago? When we were advised, “those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it,” this is not what it meant!
So what does “knowing” your history entail? To “know” means: to have a practical understanding. What you need is a practical understanding of what went wrong and what went right historically. You may at times feel sadness for what a demographic/person went through, you may feel empathy, compassion, etc., but you should not feel an overwhelming and overbearing sense of regret for what your ancestors may have done. You should not feel hatred towards a people that inflicted another. You should not develop a racial bias based off of what one race did historically because if that were the case, we ought to hate everyone. Hate Native Americans, they collected the scalps of men, women, and children and wore them as decorations. Hate the Germans, they hosted the Holocaust. Hate the Italians, they aided the Germans. Hate Africans, they sold their rival tribesmen to the white slave traders. Hate the Japanese, they bombed Pearl Harbor without warning. Hate all Catholics, they started the crusades. Where does this end?
It should end with you. Reject the hateful narrative the left seeks to shove down your throat on a daily basis. Reject the notion that your neighbor wants to see you fail. Reject the notions that will divide us, because a house divided against itself cannot stand.
