For those of us that feel anxiety that some
can look at a fact and never concede that it is true, consider this.
The people of this country dunked women in water and called them witches
if they survived, and innocent only if they drowned. Eugenics sought to
measure the brains of Black folk, and classify and institutionalize the
poor, women, homosexuals, and others in order to justify segregation and "sanitation".
Additionally, there is a huge movement to remove and reduce information
of chattel slavery from the text books that our young people use, to
redeem and sanitize American history. Another movement seeks to dispel
the idea that slavery was violent, torturous, or evil, and that slave
owners were compassionate folk who simply took advantage of a free
market. Across the world there are groups in existence simply to
disprove the Jewish Holocaust, and every historical genocide has a group
of privileged folk who will deny that mass murder was genocide, or that
the numbers of those killed are significantly over-reported in the
data.
There are others who simply do not have the mental constitution or
the strength of soul to accept the truth from other perspectives,
period. For this reason, I intentionally tune my ear for the voices on
the bottom, the bottom meaning those who are most oppressed, those who
do not get the podium, or whose voice is being muffled. For this reason,
it behooves us all to be confident in what we know to be true, and to
not let the loud, lying screams of mistruth deter what you know you must
do.
Reconciling Act: Look back through history with courage and for clarity. Dare to learn the lessons that so clearly lay on the path behind us. Quiet your fear that you will lose your place in the world, because lies are the fruit of weak and dying trees. Be a truth-teller, not one who continuously scrambles to manipulate the truth for personal convenience, to "save face", to "win" or appear heroic in the midst of one's villainy. Love the Truth, and welcome Wisdom. If you are confident in your beliefs, they need no life-support. The truth has a life of its own.
