Without Facts and Evidence History Becomes Indistinguishable from Fiction

 

A week ago, I posted a historical fact about Mussolini on Facebook along with a well-known photograph of the man. Now I have been informed once again that posting such a historical facts "goes against community standards” and I have been confined to Facebook prison, restricted from posting or otherwise participating in the public forum for one month. This is outrageous!!

What is it about this country that so many are frighted by the prospect that history should be understood through the sharing of facts and figures provided within their proper context? Or that only certain types of history can be taught and shared. But let us not discuss slavery, critical race theory, LGBTQ history, etc. What are the words written on the Statue of Liberty?  Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore?  What about their histories in this country?

It is time that we stand up with the courage to take our country back from those who wish to shape it only in their own image of what America is and stands for. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.   Without it we go blind and ignorant into the future.