Tearing down deceitful monuments is the start of building truthful history
Evidence
History, at its truest, is more labyrinth than monolith. Things fall apart—both statues and history. And building new ones, more truthful versions, begins with tearing old and deceitful ones down, especially as the War on Terror continues to drone down innocent Muslim bodies in Mogadishu and police suffocate the life out of unarmed Black men in Minneapolis, blocks away from “Little Mogadishu,” where Somalis resettled after the American invasion of the 1990s. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1109
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- XREF: Draws a direct line between the 1990s US intervention in Somalia and the Minneapolis Somali community; a concrete linkage of foreign policy and domestic demographics.
- CANDY: The ‘Little Mogadishu’ block from a 1990s American invasion is a striking, shareable juxtaposition.