IN 1955, American column writer William F Bacley Junior announced that the governor is a person.Whoever stands athwart history, screams “stop”“But today’s governors are not only trying to resist the progress of history, but they are trying to withdraw the history train back and reopen the issue on what constitutes a democratic society.
Last month, Smithsonian Secretary received a letter from the Trump administration that announces that all exhibits that are considered “divisive” or “ideological” should be replaced by those who carry “historical” and “constructive”. Within a few days, a list of violating offers was published, and it is not surprising, that it has greatly targeted the artifacts that highlight the experiences of black, Latin and LGBTQ+ in the American story.
At first glance, it may seem to be tampering with the president who is transmitting in a global trade war resulting from its collapse of definitions, the local economic chaos resulting from his “beautiful beautiful bill” and incurable conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine to calm them on the artifacts in the museum. But these attacks are not just deviations from the main issues; It provides ideological justification for real material and legislative changes that will affect people’s daily lives.
The Trump administration does not turn into hot culture wars only because they know that it will attract the attention of the media; They use these talks as the narrative entrance through which laws that erode the rights of poor and weak communities can be approved in all fields. This happened when anger resulted in diversity, shares and integration (DEI) a set of executive orders that ended all Dei initiatives and accessories within federal agencies and contractors, which led to the closure of racist stock programs and offices that monitored sexual harassment issues, targeting disability rights and roaming programs in the field of Hawasi senses.
We see the same strategy from Washington to Westminster, where the populist right increases. In the general elections last year, he called for reform in the United Kingdom Comprehensive changes How to teach British history, demanding a “national” and “balanced” approach that opposes the increasing interest in British imperialism and the slave trade through the Atlantic that arose in the wake of the global black life uprising. While the reform presents this call to reverse the curriculum as a neutral, it works to rewrite the narration on Britain to the “island’s story”.
In this context, Britain turns from being a long empire throughout the centuries to a small island besieged, where the flow of migrants was a modern plague that could not be explained instead of the final tremor of imperial intertwining. Local protests can be depicted outside the temporary residence of asylum seekers as a spontaneous societal defense, as it is pushed forward.Really relevant familiesThis narrowing the national story wipes out the way to see Nigel Faraj to Britain, with a pioneering immigration policy of “collective deportation” for asylum seekers. The leader of the reform Channel 4 said “We cannot be responsible for the sins of the world.”
The dismantling of democracy and rewriting the story of the nation is walking together, such as salt and pepper in the book of popular right recipes. When you talk about a return to the colonialism in the curricula, it also seeks to erase the memory of the mid -twentieth century, when we saw, from a purely legal point of view, the largest democratic expansion in the history of mankind. Millions of people around the world who had no opinion suddenly chose their leaders the right to vote. To forget to forget that democracy has gone through the world. It is not the right of the automatic birth that is given from kindness from the powerful to the weak.
This is a lesson of struggles to end colonialism and racist justice activity that the popular right seeks to bury under the sands of time. When the Trump Team team does not speak against Dei, they not only talk about getting rid of the training of the monotonous bias. They mean Get rid of the 1964 Civil Rights Law. There is a greater ambition in the work: canceling the departure from the social contract that established the liberal system in the twentieth century, and the judicial architecture that strengthened it.
Murray Rothbad said in 1992: “The liberation controversy and ideological lords of the popular conservatives today, in 1992:”We will cancel the twentieth century“The slogan has become a massive cry for those who seek to demolish the framework of the law of ethnic relations, women’s rights, the protection of workers, and democratic mechanisms that provide a protective cover in which weak people can live in dignity.
The payment against this project means rejecting the gap and base tactics on which the populist right depends. It requires building multiple solidarity solidarity that recognizes the common dangers between those targeting racist accounts and those facing the disposal of economic property. The same politicians who are ready to strip a refugee of due legal measures will also lead to the stripping of the Federation’s rights factor. The same people who wipe out the history of the empire are the ones who will hollow any institutions of mass democracy that can draw a challenge against escalating inequality.
Civil rights in the United States and the end of colonialism in the United Kingdom were not only for race. Read the work of Kwame Nkrumah, Walter Rodney or Farid Hampton It is clear that these movements were driven by housing fears, health care and decent work. If we want to defend the victories of the twentieth century, we cannot leave history to rewrite history on the twenty -first.