
Presenting 'Throughline': Nikole Hannah-Jones and the war over history
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History Isn't Settled, Right?
I think one of the things you just pointed out is that history isn't settled. And there's arguments made about history, right? Like people ot perspectives. You're making an argument. I mean, this is history as told from the bottom. So do we think that slave people were inanimate objects during the period of the american revolution? The they were no different than the cattle. They were just kind of doing their work and not asserting themselves in the conflict,. Not understanding that there was a h issue of slavery at play here. This is about focus. It's about, if you are not interested in what they are doing, you don't focus on it. But that's
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