<p>Reckoning with the ancestors on my father’s side of the family has been exhausting. I opened that Pandora’s Box and out flew: the colonizers, the slaveholders, the rebel generals, the high-ranking Confederate officials. I’ve mined this family history for truths that challenge the Lost Cause narrative, the pro-Confederate ideology that fuels white supremacy. The long-reaching consequences of that creed empowered the insurrectionists of Jan. 6th, 2021, so this has seemed worth doing.</p>
<p>Yet after a prolonged stint of burrowing through 19th-century Alabama archives – examining census forms itemizing human property, wills bequeathing that property, descriptions of opulent slave-built mansions – I wanted a break. I was ready to spend time with someone from my family who’d been on the right side of history, a white man “friendly to the freedom of all men,” as Frederi
<p>Reckoning with the ancestors on my father’s side of the family has been exhausting. I opened that Pandora’s Box and out flew: the colonizers, the slaveholders, the rebel generals, the high-ranking Confederate officials. I’ve mined this family history for truths that challenge the Lost Cause narrative, the pro-Confederate ideology that fuels white supremacy. The long-reaching consequences of that creed empowered the insurrectionists of Jan. 6th, 2021, so this has seemed worth doing.</p>
<p>Yet after a prolonged stint of burrowing through 19th-century Alabama archives – examining census forms itemizing human property, wills bequeathing that property, descriptions of opulent slave-built mansions – I wanted a break. I was ready to spend time with someone from my family who’d been on the right side of history, a white man “friendly to the freedom of all men,” as Frederi
THE STANDARD By
Jectone Oyoo |
March 9th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) supremo Raila Odinga remains a consummate political figure within and outside the country.
His ability to draw back into the fold even the most disgruntled of political nemeses is not in question; a trait that purveys exceptional political acumen and emotional strength forged in the crucible of personal hardships. Thence the idea of forming an alliance with beleaguered Deputy President William Ruto is not implausible.
History is replete with more bitter rivals who have worked together before. As a Kenyan working and living in America, perhaps the apotheosis of such is Abraham Lincoln. When the 16th President of America won the 1860 Republican nomination against three of his fiercest rivals New York Senator William Seward, Ohio Governor Salmon Chase and Missouri’s distinguished statesman Edward Bates their disregard and angst for him was apparent for even the blind to s