History is not attacked. History
is created by wrenching the narration from those who seek to control past. From
those who use brutal narrative powers of past to hide the memories from the present.
Those who seek to alter memories of atrocities in the memoirs of nonviolence
and trophies of tolerance. Entitlements of atrocities is presented as benign
version to fatten on misery. There comes an occasion when reality is excavated
and flagged by dislodging the statues of horror and stamping the semantics into
forgotten meaning. There comes an occasion when reality is forced to be pushed
down the throats as a lifesaving tonic against illusions.
What is happening in the streets
of US and UK (as also in the campus of Ghana few years back) is the expression
of people who have been oppressed for too long, who have been forced to adhere
to normalized narrations of atrocities as history while hideous protagonists celebrated
and pedestaled. There is no reason why these symbols of racism (and caste)
should exist. The reason why they exist point to tacit acceptance by powerful
controller of narration, an attempt to put common people in their place. It is
also opportunist benefit from the system by playing for the entrenched values. That
this obnoxious slave trader’s statue find a place in public space is gross, an
insult on the memories of people who underwent unimaginable horror. These presence
shows moral vacuum and inability to be even decent to the memories. Manipulative
fattened fluffs who manufacture high moral angst by playing local guardians to
herds (the worst the better) are very much complicit. These lazy patronizers look
easy references to latch on for gains. They adhere to feudal structure, and
work out their increment gains by normalizing these while pointing to save the
different “other” (the more the “other” plays different, indeed uncivilized regressive,
better chance that they be herded into narration of benefit). The elite section
who vehemently and vociferously position as liberals on every passing occasion are
very much complicit. These kind of symbols of horror wouldn’t exist in public
space if they valued people, if they were concerned about their pain. They celebrated
festering wounds of discriminated, marginalized and exploited as representation
of their reality and even have the audacity to patronize these as their benevolence.
The way colonial feudal legacy is being presented in UK is a study on how
barbarism is sophisticated into the garb of democracy. Monarchy is being
humored as royals. It is the same structure that orchestrated colonial loot and
atrocities all across the world. They nourished native nincompoops who promptly
created narration of colonial benevolence as history. They also meanwhile worked
to replace their own horror in the garb of democracy.
History is always
rewritten. History as continuous narration of war, megalomaniac kings and
kingdoms and destruction, as a source of revivalism to assert herds into religions
and a space of jingoistic fiction to work herds into nation, is creating much
problems. The apt version is the one
that create understanding as part of humanity as also create a sense of humbleness
and unique fortune as member of humanity. It’s the democratization of history. It’s
essentially the beginning of history. It is being written by people. With their
own hand. Their own version in social media without any need for any arbitrators. It can no longer be ignored.
