Author Archives: Jessica Holzhausen

Rewriting history as political strategy – a phenomenon as old as history itself?

Originally posted on 20One:
One can only imagine the silent gasp many made when hearing the speech of Ben Carson, US secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in March 2017. Mentioning the history of slavery and slave trade in and to America, he said: “That’s what America is about, the lands of dreams and opportunities.…