My previous post regarding textbook / political correctness revisionism must have been 100% right on the mark. When none other than super-liberal Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts agrees, it must be so. Let me quote a few of his sentences – in context: “History is not a Hallmark card; sometimes history breaks your heart. Understanding the past provides context to understanding the present and predict the future. Moreover, history is identity. This history hurts. But is requiring me not to speak it really the best response to that hurt? Should a hard truth not be uttered for fear it might cause somebody, somewhere to resent?
It is our narratives that we explain ourselves to ourselves. That’s a crucial matter in a nation that is, after all, bond not by common blood or ancestry, but by common fealty to a set of revolutionary ideals that begins, “We hold these truths to be self-evident…”
Finally, one DemLib in the world who admits the truth, that the truth does sometimes hurt, but it is still the truth, with or without political correctness changing, twisting, and/or denying that which did happen a certain way.