“ The people who dominate today’s big media networks, who publish school textbooks, who decide upon the dominant ideas in our culture, are mostly rich, white men. Not surprisingly, they ask that history concentrate on those who are rich and white and male. That is why the point of view of black people has not been a very important one in the telling of our history; same with women’s perspectives, or those of working people. Most of what we get from mainstream media and from standard history books is ideological—biased not in favor of the people, but towards the commercial and political interests of the men and corporations at the top.
Howard Zinn
(Source: likethesun)
5 months ago
