Eduardo Galeano: ’My great fear is that we are all suffering from amnesia’ | Books | guardian.co.uk
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I wrote to recover the memory of the human rainbow, which is in danger of being mutilated."
By way of example he cites Robert Carter III – of whom I had not heard – who was the only one of the US’s founding fathers to free his slaves. “For having committed this unforgivable sin he was condemned to historical oblivion.”
Who, I ask, is responsible for this forgetfulness? “It’s not a person,” he explains. “It’s a system of power that is always deciding in the name of humanity who deserves to be remembered and who deserves to be forgotten … We are much more than we are told. We are much more beautiful.”