LINES OF THE DAY

". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past -- or more accurately, pastness -- is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past." p. 15

". . . But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands." p. 153

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995) by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Sunday, February 12, 2012

*Slavery By Another Name* Broadcasts Tomorrow Night On PBS

PBS has an admirably high quality schedule of Black History Month broadcasts this year.
This one surely should not be missed, the screen adaptation of Douglas Blackmon's Slavery By Another Name. It's on tomorrow night (Monday, February 13).

What is particularly wonderful is that even those of us without televisions can see these because PBS puts up a feed online after the intitial broadcast. Here's their Black History Month schedule. The first one was The Underground Railroad. Last week's program of Scandinavian footage of the Black Panthers, Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, was wonderful -- and it corrects a lot of false info that's been propagandised about the Black Pathers, who they were and what they did.
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