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The War on the Truth
Two Women’s Eyewitness Accounts
Many Americans believed that President Obama’s election in 2008 was the sign that a post-racial America had finally arrived. Despite the 17% increase in hate crime in 2017, far too many Americans just can’t believe that racial hatred really could be the catalyst to mass murder, Nazi protests, and white supremacy. Not here. Not now. Not us.
Then Mr. Trump came to the podium and the words fake news came billowing throughout the social network. He proclaimed that those white supremacists and neo-Nazi in Charlottesville were “good people.” And a new war on truth was born…again.
That brings me to two truth tellers and their recent testimonies to what really happened to them and to the world from which they came.
Madeleine Albright and Michelle Obama come from different generations and different continents; however, both have much in common: notably, overcoming virulent hatred stemming from racism. Both spoke their truth with undying patriotism to the United States: Ms. Albright on the international stage as “Madam Secretary” and Ms. Obama on a national stage from the White House — a house slaves built (her ancestors to be unambiguous).
These two women have a message for Americans. Beware. Ignorance is not bliss. There is no such thing as alternate facts…
