Tell Me the Truth: Unlearning What We Think We Know

This is a deep, powerful, effective installment of a winning white narrative. Why do all of our adopted educational textbooks leave out the Tulsa Massacre of 1921? Why is the relocation of indigenous people described as “voluntary” when their descendants call it the Trail of Tears? Why aren’t we taught about the bombs dropped on MOVE, a black liberation group, in Philadelphia in 1985? Now I have to question everything. We should all be questioning everything.

Creative, Genealogy, Ancestral HealingStephanie Allen SilentiJune 12, 2020us history, unlearning, education, publishing, ancestry, genealogy, new englandComment

Reckoning

This is just the beginning of this reckoning. As amazed as I am at finding my own direct ancestor’s name in the First Census of the United States, I cannot share that fact without acknowledging how his name got there, and the distinct privilege of whiteness that exists by it being recorded anywhere at all.

Genealogy, Ancestral HealingStephanie Allen SilentiApril 3, 2020census, ancestry, ancestral healing, genealogy, new england, massachusetts, hometown