Stories are powerful since they have the power to destroy, or build, encourage, or depress. The possibilities of a story are twofold, and this is the balance. Nature is arranged such that there is a balance and the balance must be maintained to ensure that operations are normal. The natural law implies that to have a single sided situation is impossible and it will produce an unnatural course if it exists. While applying the natural law, it is impossible to have a single story. A one-sided story is flawed if it focuses on the negative side and ignores the positive sides or overemphasizes the positive side and assumes the negative side. Telling the whole story creates symmetry, a balance in the ecosystem, which teaches the truth of humanity, its oneness, and uniqueness.
Recently, as I was going through some historical materials online, I made a discovery that not only aroused me but also emphasized the power of telling a single story. I have had misgivings towards the whites and Europeans involved in the triangle trade and especially the slave trade in Africa. History has painted, by large, the evils that befell the colored race as they were transported in inhuman conditions to their destinations that they knew not. The cruel treatment they received in plantations and their long lives of servitude that they were hardly released from except upon death. The story has been told repeatedly that my perception of the whole matter was biased only to discover after my last encounter with a material that told both sides of the story.
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I erroneously believed that one side, the Europeans and Americans, controlled the trade. As I learned, Africans and Asians were involved in the trade even before the entrance of the whites. The bigger picture began to form; No more would I have such a stereotypic view. Africans who captured their fellows and sold them to such horrors assisted Americans and Europeans. Perhaps they did not know to what end they had subjected their fellows. However, the story remains that both sides participated and that both sides must carry an equal share of the blame rather than demonizing one people, the whites, for the evils in the slave trade. This will be a balanced story and one that should be told repeatedly.
