I can only assume that Dr. Bezio wants us to be thinking about voter suppression today, as the podcast spoke on the importance of understanding history and Dr. Hayter\u2019s reading was about Richmond\u2019s history of voting rights and voter suppression. In the podcast Dr. Bezio warns us to keep track of who is writing our history, she reminds us that in large part we have Eurocentric\/western history which is a whitewashed form. She reminds us that when we read our history books, we are most likely reading the words of White Christian men with lots of money, as they could afford the time and resources it took to record anything. They also, as she points out in her podcast, felt as though what they were recording was important while the lower-class people most likely were just living their normal lives and doing things like making bread which doesn\u2019t feel important enough to record. She continues on to say if we believed history word for word, rather than read between the lines and behind the stories told to us we would think that women, people of color, and people without lots of money didn\u2019t do anything. I think it is interesting that in Dr. Hayter\u2019s reading we know what was going on in Richmond regarding voter suppression in the late 1960s because the mayor at the time Phil Bagley said in a private setting, \u201cI did what I did about the compromise because the n*** are not qualified to run the city of Richmond.\u201d I think it kind of ironic that while we often only hear the \u201crich white men\u2019s\u201d sides sometimes their words are so blatantly horrific that one does not have to look further into something to see what they are doing wrong. Meaning yes, oftentimes we do not get to see all sides of events but if what is recorded is saying something that we can see is wrong it makes our understanding a little better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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