The podcast and reading for Tuesday were both really interesting and definitely gave me a lot to think about. I have learned last semester a lot about ‘real’ history and the ordinary people who actually made revolutions happen. I also leaned a lot about the importance that Richmond has to U.S. history and present and how lucky we are to live in a city of such historical importance. However, the history is also dark and complicated, plagued with hardship, redlining, and suppression of minority individuals. It made me learn that history is just as relevant as the present and you can not separate history from current events. For example, in Dr. Hayter’s Justice and Civil Society class last semester, he pulled up a map of Richmond and asked us to point out random parts of the city. We would click on a random part of the city and every time, if it was a previously redlined district, then that district would be exponentially hotter than other areas of the city that were not redlined. This held for every part of the city. It was unbelievable to see and it really showed that America’s dark history is unfortunately still relevant and important today. It is even resulting in unintended consequences, like climate change.<\/p>\n
Learning about this was really upsetting because as Bezio says in the podcast, “This is not ancient history, it is lived history.” This statement is so true because history books make it seem like the Civil Rights movement happened so many years ago when it is not that far in the past. This deliberate, false distancing from history needs to be stopped and we need to realize that these actions and ideologies are still relevant. This reminds me of the movie Just Mercy because it takes place in the 1980s, 20 years after the Civil Rights movement yet the racist ideologies were so overwhelming and stopping justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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