“
When history textbooks
leave out the Arawaks, they offend Native Americans. When they omit the
possibility of African and Phoenician precursors to Columbus, they offend
African Americans. When they glamorize explorers such as de Soto just because
they were white, our histories offend all people of color. When they leave out
Las Casas, they omit an interesting idealist with whom we all might identify.
When they glorify Columbus, our textbooks prod us toward identifying with the
oppressor. When textbook authors omit the causes and process of European world
domination, they offer us a history whose purpose must be to keep us unaware of
the important questions. Perhaps worst of all, when textbooks paint simplistic
portraits of a pious heroic Columbus, they provide feel-good history that bores
everyone”, (P.69). In fact, it seems like all these fabrications,
omissions, and misstatements are not caused by negligence or even racism, but a
cleverly thought process to maintain the same posture towards the world and
continue pillage of resources, while slaving darker colored skins in the East,
Africa, and South America. Such policy started in Europe, headed by England.
Since the second world war, it has continued to this day with the leadership of
the United States, once a subjugated nation itself. Before Westerners
discovered Eastern and African nations, those countries had had commercial
relationships with each other for centuries. Their relationship was equal, not
based on domination that has been practiced by the West.
