#34: "Our History Begins in the Dirt" (ft. Archeologist & Filmmaker Kelley Kali)
Not Your Average Jo
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Why Is It So Important to Read History Books?
When you have a group of white men writing history books you become a racist society. White men were writing in history books that they were the superior race and everybody else was lesser than. They excavated skulls of africans and said oh look how small the skull is which indicates that their brains are smaller so they are therefore inferior, according to archaeology. It's if you just let anyone go out and excavate without any checks and balances um their agenda can easily be seeped into and believed throughout history because in develop self-hate in certain cultures right and i'm assuming that that has a lot to do with archaeology.
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