Reply To: An insight into human nature
“Reine-Marie sighed. It’s our fault. Historians, archivists, researchers, professors, biographers. We look to the so-call important figures. We value the papers left behind by Premiers, Prime Ministers, Presidents–by the most prominent witnesses to history–and forget there are other witnesses. The people who actually lived it. The First Nations. The farmers. The cooks and cleaners and salespeople. The laborers. The immigrants, the minorities. The women, said Harriet. Yes. The Stone letter was among the papers of a stonemason. A bricklayer. No one thought they could be of value. She shook her head. It is a terrible flaw in written history. We were also wrong to assume Pierre Stone was next to illiterate, said Armand.” From my own genealogical research, I know that it is these “other witnesses” who are the backbone of any country. As one of those “other witnesses,” that’s why it is so important to vote.