Should History Reveal The Facts About Our Past

The issue of should history reveal the facts about our past or not has become a controversial topic for decades. Some says history should unveil all the truths about our past, while others say it should not because if it does it will cast their mind back on to the ugly experiences or the brutalities of the past. In my view , I think history should be taught without hidden any facts from the people, because we cannot continue to be living in a world full of lies till the world come to an end. History is supposed to be one of the most important and interesting subjects that should be taught in our schools this days, due to the facts that it entails so many things that we should know about our past. History is like a form of inheritance that should …show more content…
We learn about Columbus to be one of the great men who discover America without knowing about his bad deeds, but this great pioneers of history James Lowen and Howard Zinn have educate us on his bad deeds in their books “ Lies my teacher told me “ and the “People’s history of America. They have talked about his selfish and greedy behavior that he use to achieve whatever he wanted at any time without considering the feeling of other peoples. I again find out that he was the first person to start the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. He also exploit people by taking their gold, spices and wealth from them. It was also inhuman to hear that the Indians who were not able to find the gold fingers are cut and bleed to death. I refer to Zinn which says this words after Columbus “As soon as I arrived in the Indies, on the first Island which I found, I too some of the native by force in other that they might learn and give information of whatever there is in these parts “(Zinn). This class has help me to discover so many things that I did not know before, It makes me understand why we celebrate thanksgiving as one of the national holidays in this country, and clearify It to me that the pilgrims are founders of thanksgiving , and it celebrate our ethnocentrism. Lowen makes it clear that “ More than any other celebration, more even that such …show more content…
Although we have being saying that slavery is of the past, it still exist all over the country in a more civilized way. We can see how the blacks and the whites continue to fight in the TV stations this days. I believe it is due to the hatred that they have developed for each other some years back. Howard says “There is not a country in world history in which racism has been more important , for so long a time, as the United States”(Zinn). The kind of treatment that was giving to the blacks those days was inhuman. They made them work a lot with no or just a little pay. They torture them both physically and emotionally. They starved them for a long time, and at times fed them on foods that are not even good for the animals to eat. But with all that, the whites feel all was okay and the slaves were happy in those kind of situations that they were. Howard has quoted this words from a former slave to shows that the slaves were not happy, but they pretend to be. “John little, a former slave, wrote. They say slaves are happy, because they laugh, and are merry. I myself and three or four others, have received two hundred lashes in the day, and had our feet in fetters; and make others laugh at the ratting of our chains. Happy men we must have been! We did it to keep down trouble, and to keep our hearts