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Not so fast: Prolific Black Authors left out of a soon-to-be-published book of writers covering the past 2500 years. The Guardian reports with too Black voices missing from the nearly 750 page book, a major US publisher cancels publication. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/16/whos-missing-top-author-stirs-anger-with-too-white-history-
Al Sharpton said something a while ago, on a show on PBS,
He said, THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN HAVE A MORAL MOVEMENT, IS YOU MUST OPERATE WITH A CERTAIN LEVEL OF MORALITY YOURSELF.
This is the main strategic reality with black people in the anglophone<USA/UK/South Africa >, and is replicated by black people in other phones. In the article both David Olusoga or Hakim Adi display an idea that history in college should be of a certain moral code. The industry of history need to have a moral code.
The moral code is: history is only valid when absolutely truthful or fully comprehensive to all people.
Richard Cohen's book is not fully comprehensive, by absenting the stated works in the article or the fact Cohen needed to make additions to the book which were not suitable to the usa based book publisher.
But, do all histories have to be absolutely truthful plus fully comprehensive, to be histories ?
If a black person writes a history book and displays the names of all the peoples of Africa during the invasion by white european communities; if said black person gives details to each african community from eating ways to names to art styles, to religions as how influenced by invaders as comprehensive as possible. Is said book false when the white european invaders are mentioned only as blood suckers from northern lands.
By Al Sharpton's words, by the philosophy of the Black historians in the article, the answer is no. But is it?
I found the show , find the quote in capitols
https://www.thirteen.org/metrofocus/2020/10/metrofocus-october-1-2020-keiyzp/#
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