“History is writing by the winners” –Malcolm X
What is the purpose of the myth? The purpose of the myth is to empower the person who is telling the story. Only the person who won in history is benefiting from the situation. This is a cover up to for the winner’s mistakes. Like America, they do an amazing job at manipulating the situation to become stated as a myth and later imprinted into the new generations brains. For instance Columbus Day, why does America praise a man who has enslaved over 4,000 slaves per year and also stared the first slave trade? I thought that America wanted to start a new beginning? Why is U.S of A dueling over European history? How does education establish and legitimatize political myths and who does this empower?
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