Why American Networks Frame History Narrowly
How Historical Narrative Absence Praises States’ Rights Autocracy
Can journalists really be so ignorant of U.S. history? Do they really put lawyers on the air to deceive us to tell the truth? Or is it an accident of the wrong American narrative already deeply engrained in their minds? The idea that we are on the brink of autocracy is often repeated and shows a historical deafness, a profound ignorance, or a deliberate misdirection to the truth.
We had autocracy in states for so long in America, in many states, that Americans are just plain silly when they react to it with laughter. I can assure you it is true. Let me prove it. But then again, they don’t history because, well, the MAGA conservatives won’t let it be taught and neither will the white liberals. They started constructing historical narratives to be taught in schools at the beginning of the 1900s and developed in with an idea of unity, not disunity. We are “one nation” under God, not a whole bunch of divided states with different forms of government, democracy, partial democracy, managed autocracy.
Sometimes I wish I wouldn’t have got into this whole mess when I tried to be a “good ally” after George Floyd died by writing of the injustices against black Americans. Studying American history and reading original documents has left me profoundly disappointed…
