He’s a Scottish radio programmer and radio personality and she’s just been named as the Producer of the syndicated radio program “The Grunge Garage with Bob Stei.” Lee operates several internet stations on RLB Media and is also the production voice of the program Lee succeeds Rhett Butler, who will be moving on to other opportunities while still running the program’s website Butler will continue with his syndicated program “Retro Rock Rewind.” “The Grunge Garage” is now in its fourth year of production and is distributed through Fishnet Syndication Stei hosts the show from Philadelphia and is heard on stations including Dimes Media’s Adult Hits KXTZ “95.3 The Beach” in San Luis Obispo and website in this browser for the next time I comment Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value" The reunion was as emotional as – and even more cathartic than – Karin Stei had expected during Saturday’s get-together at Waldo’s starting with the man who swam into the bloodied waters off the beach near Humiston Park after she had been bitten by a shark seven years ago the German tourist embraced each member of the crew that she believes saved both her leg and her life “I’m so happy that you were there that day,” Stei told Vero Beach lifeguard Erik Toomsoo sprinted through the sand and dived into the surf swimming to her rescue and pulling her to safety She would repeat those heartfelt words to the other lifeguards who attended the gathering which was organized by Toomsoo after learning that Stei was returning to Vero Beach for the first time since that fateful morning a nurse who happened to be on the beach with her mother when the shark attack occurred and to Fire Rescue paramedic Dustin Hawkins who had arrived on the scene within minutes “I thought it would be harder to come back and see everyone again,” Stei said probably because I didn’t know how I would react Toomsoo said he and Stei have kept in touch They email each other a couple of times each year and always on May 9 – the anniversary of the horrifying incident while she was swimming in about 10 feet of water “I’m not the fastest swimmer on the team,” Toomsoo said He needed to be: Stei said the shark bite penetrated her left thigh to the bone perforating her femoral artery and ripping away two-thirds of the muscle tissue She immediately raised her arm and screamed “Shark!” and “Help!” and began swimming toward the shore thinking he was coming back to finish me off,” she said “I knew I had to get back to the beach or I’d die.” reaching his arm across her chest and churning his way back to shore where other lifeguards helped pull her from the water and set her down on the sand Then a registered nurse and part-time lifeguard Stokes was enjoying a day off on the beach when she saw what was happening and began assisting as the crew tried to stabilize Stei’s condition but she never lost consciousness as Stokes continued to talk to her until the paramedics arrived She was transported to the Indian River Medical Center then flown by helicopter to the trauma unit at Lawnwood Regional Medical Center Stei underwent emergency surgery at Lawnwood where she spent only four days before flying back to Europe she was hospitalized for more than six weeks – including three weeks in a rehabilitation hospital and I still take pain medication,” Stei said Stei said she “had nightmares for a while,” but they’ve subsided though she continues to see a trauma counselor so much so that she visited the beach here the day before the reunion Privacy Policy | Copyright © 2025 32963 Media LLC All rights reserved   |    Contact: [email protected]   |   Vero Beach, Florida, USA | Orlando Web Design by: M5 This function has been disabled for Vero News '#' : location.hash;window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUQuery = location.search === '' && location.href.slice(0 location.href.length - window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash.length).indexOf('?') !== -1 '?' : location.search;if (window.history && window.history.replaceState) {var ogU = location.pathname + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUQuery + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash;history.replaceState(null "\/why-conservative-rabbis-should-think-creatively-about-interfaith-marriage\/?__cf_chl_rt_tk=akoq8G72Qg_YI54vw.T4i4HvyMfGP52726mttuhmlAE-1746495563-1.0.1.1-HA1p5dHTydb0yqZK0YsrhdmHVviHnyQvg8U1URWoNg4" + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash);cpo.onload = function() {history.replaceState(null ogU);}}document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(cpo);}()); 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to be seen if her left leg – mauled from just inches below her groin to just below her knee – will ever regain the strength it had before the attack Stei said in an e-mail to the Vero Beach lifeguard who pulled her from the water “I can only express my deepest gratitude for your bravery to rescue me and thus saving my life,” Stei wrote in an e-mail to life guard Erik Toomsoo who reached the stricken swimmer and brought her to shore where others worked to keep her calm and stem the bleeding from the gaping wound The attack received international attention and will prompt a visit to Vero Beach next month by a National Geographic Channel film crew doing a three-part series on “Why Sharks Attack.” Stei was taken to Lawnwood Regional Medical Center where she remained a few days before being flown back to Germany “Together with all those wonderful people who were there on this May 9th and did whatever they could to help me…thank you was swimming just east of the of the reef line in about 10 feet of water in front of the Driftwood Inn when she was attacked Those familiar with sharks think the shark that bit Stei was likely a bull shark or a tiger shark many say it’s a miracle that she is alive and that she did not lose her leg which suffered massive tissue loss “I’ve been on pins and needles,” Toomsoo said of waiting for the updates from the woman’s brother He said he wrote Peter Stei to inquire about his sister after hearing from people that she had lost her leg “I’m just relived that she has both legs and that she is doing as well as can be expected,” Toomsoo said Karin Stei’s July 12 e-mail to Toomsoo was the first he received directly from her “I would say that she is making good progress,” Peter Stei wrote to Toomsoo said he has a hard time putting the thought of sharks out of his mind when he’s swimming lifeguards briefly closed city beaches because large sharks were sighted close to shore The July 4 sightings were noted by the pilot of a Florida Fish and Wildlife helicopter who was flying over Vero beaches and reported a pair of five-foot lemon sharks Toomsoo said lifeguards regularly see sharks off the beach raise two reds flags when sharks are spotted close by and keep people out of the water for about a half hour until the sharks leave the area A second sighting of a nine-foot shark – about the size of the one that attacked Stei – also prompted lifeguards to clear bathers from the beaches a few weeks ago “I think our country is obsessed with shark attacks,” said Toomsoo Toomsoo was about eight when the 1975 blockbuster “Jaws” was released The movie left a mark on him and millions of others Toomsoo said this is also the time of year when bait fish are drawing predators closer to shore The notion of why sharks attack and Vero Beach will be the subject of a three-part National Geographic Channel piece scheduled to film in Vero Beach next month Toomsoo said a producer called him a couple of weeks ago about the cable channel’s interest in the Vero Beach attack Shark attacks along the Vero Beach shoreline go back more than 100 years The May 9 shark attack was the 18th in Indian River County since records started being kept back in the 1800s Indian River County ranks ninth in the state for shark attacks The last fatal attack in Indian River County occurred in 1998 who told Toomsoo that she is waiting for treatment to strengthen her left leg “I hope to meet you in the future in person and tell you how happy you made my family and friends Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. 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Read our Privacy notice A hospital patient left after pressing his call button for help and being ignored by nursing staff The video shows a TikTok user who goes by the name of Stei pressing his call button repeatedly then deciding to leave his room after no one comes to check on him “They’ve had me waiting here for the past 30 minutes,” he says in the video Do y’all hear?” Stei points the camera toward his hand so viewers can see that he’s repeatedly calling for help donning his headphones and heading to the exit “I came here for medical assistance—not just to lay down…I could do that at home.” Stei subsequently said that hospital staff did not communicate with him when he arrived. “They never told me how long I would have been waiting for, and I had already been checked in for a little over an hour,” he said in an interview with the Daily Dot. “After sitting there in complete silence with not even a nurse to come and ask how I was doing Other TikTokers wrote in the comment section of Stei’s video that his experience is not uncommon Some said it’s a reflection of the nursing crisis gripping American hospitals From 2020 to 2023, the US will need to hire more than 275,000 new nurses, according to a StatPearls paper on the crisis The crisis is largely driven by grim working conditions: The number of patients each nurse is expected to take care of during a given shift—which is known as their ratio—is far too high at many American hospitals The StatPearls paper says this aspect of the healthcare system is of “clinical concern” Research shows these consequences are dangerous for patients “In hospitals with high patient-to-nurse ratios and the patients experienced higher mortality and failure-to-rescue rates than facilities with lower patient-to-nurse ratios,” the paper said When nurses leave the industry due to unfair or dangerous working conditions, it exacerbates the problem, causing more nurses to have to care for higher numbers of patients, research shows. “When staffing is short, ratios go up to meet the need,” the StatPearls paper says. Turnover is also quite expensive for healthcare systems—the average cost of replacing just one nurse is somewhere between $82,000 to $88,000, per NYSNA. Ultimately, nurses have to be treated better to prevent incidents like the one Stei captured, where a patient was repeatedly calling for help and nobody was able to answer. “Nurses know that safe staffing levels save lives—and the research is on our side,” the NYSNA statement says. “The facts line up with nurses’ experiences that safe staffing protects patients.” Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies itb.ac.id — People often perceive undergraduates of the Electrical Engineering program as product creators For ITB’s Undergraduate Program in Electrical Engineering the students will encounter a course titled “Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Engineering,” with the code EL4244 students are guided to construct an innovative technology-based idea therefore creating a certain product of superior quality innovation and entrepreneurship is of unity especially the Undergraduate Program in Electrical Engineering realized the importance of both aspects and developed a course to train students in the field of entrepreneurship The course is also characterized by its collaborative nature with students of other study programs participating The course is integrated with ITB’s Electrical Engineering program final year assignment (thesis) in the form of capstone design The course generated business ideas for real life issues in need of resolution students are challenged to work in teams and solve an engineering problem together with their colleagues which may focus on a contrasting field of work Effective and agreeable communication is a central precondition for this final assignment Capstone design itself has been running for 11 years at ITB’s Undergraduate Program in Electrical Engineering and has become an exemplar for many engineering courses The utilized framework in course EL4244 is based on the 24 steps disciplined entrepreneur developed by Professor Bill Aulet from MIT which has produced many innovation and technology based startups and Salman Subakat (CEO of Paragon Innovation and Technology) The course is supported by industries in the form of funding and coaching clinics who will provide inputs in order to sharpen the mentees’ ideas The course will conclude on the pitching stage which will be attended by industry players and venture capitals There are ten groups with all presenting technology-based business ideas five out of 10 pitchers obtained funding from investing parties announced that the business ideas will be drawn out further along the lines of practical work and other taught courses through an MBKM scheme This lecture and the constructed scheme will be continuously developed many more entrepreneurs will emerge and by the following year many more students from other study programs might gain access to this course Source: STEI ITB ReleaseTranslator: Firzana Aisya (Bioengineering 2021) The woman who was critically injured by a shark bite last week has returned to Germany for continuing medical treatment May 9 in an attack that nearly severed her left leg as she swam in the ocean north of Humiston Park She has been in Fort Pierce’s Lawnwood Regional Medical Center & Heart Institute since that day and after surgeries Her condition stabilized enough that on Sunday she was taken by ambulance to Miami and then was flown to Germany Stei is a resident of Germany’s Lake Constance area and works for a local newspaper there She was staying with a friend in Vero Beach when she was attacked The first city lifeguard to reach her was Erik Toomsoo who found her swimming the backstroke in an attempt to reach shore Toomsoo said the shark attack was the first in 14 years in Vero Beach and that “someone is 1,000 times more likely to drown than be bitten by a shark.” the New York Times published a new defense of the 1619 Project by Jake Silverstein editor-in-chief of the New York Times Magazine (“The 1619 Project and the Long Battle Over U.S Silverstein’s purpose was to prepare public opinion for the release of a book version of the project titled The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story masterminded by Times staff writer Nikole Hannah-Jones suffered devastating criticism after its release in August 2019—criticism that began with the WSWS Silverstein has staked his reputation on the 1619 Project His name will forever be associated with the secretive manner through which the project invented its false and error-ridden historical interpretation as well as the orchestration of the cover-up that has followed Silverstein’s 8,250-word essay is just the latest in this long line of underhanded journalism and bogus history he fails to deal with any of the substantive historical criticism of the 1619 Project—in relationship to the origins of slavery the emergence of capitalism and the interracial character of past struggles for equality and in keeping with the modus operandi of the 1619 Project Silverstein’s essay piles new layers of falsification on old If the original 1619 Project falsified American history Silverstein’s latest essay falsifies the history of American history-writing—and it openly embraces a historical method that privileges “narrative” over “actual fact.” the 1619 Project has wobbled on a bogus claim: that the history of slavery and racial oppression has been hidden by “white historians” as Hannah-Jones put it in one of her many Twitter tirades “It’s finally time to tell the truth,” the Times declared in its marketing campaign for the project Generations of historians have parsed through seemingly every aspect of “the peculiar institution.” Slavery has generated far more study than the emergence of wage labor before the Civil War and it has drawn the attention of many of the most talented American historians None of this work left the slightest trace on the 1619 Project Silverstein now has to pretend as though it was there all along the bulk of his essay is given over to a potted presentation of the history of American historiography His aim is to place the 1619 Project as the inheritor of all that is noble in history writing—even the “apotheosis” of what he calls “the long struggle over US history.” Yet neither can the 1619 Project abandon its position that African American history is only truly knowable by blacks Silverstein quotes approvingly from Professor Martha S who believes that black historians have a superior understanding of the past but it’s also politics,” Jones is quoted as saying “And Black historians have always known that They always know the stakes [emphasis added].” It must be bluntly stated that this sort of quasi-biological determinism—that “races” somehow have greater capacity to understand “their own history” than other “races”—shares a fundamental precept with the Nazi conception of history writing Silverstein or Hannah-Jones that the racial claim to true knowledge of history negates their own position If only black historians can truly know what is at stake in “black history,” it must follow that only whites must be able to know “white history.” It follows that black historians should not concern themselves with episodes of history in which the actors were predominantly white—for example the political history of the American Revolution or Civil War This viewpoint is obviously reactionary to its marrow Yet it conditioned the Times’ attempt to choose “almost every contributor” for the 1619 Project based on black identity as the newspaper wrote upon the project’s rollout The racial composition of the contributors was “a nonnegotiable aspect of the project that helps underscore its thesis This turned out to be “negotiable,” as in fact many of the 1619 contributors And now Silverstein admits that some white historians have made some contribution to the history of slavery he should also have mentioned Winthrop Jordan The fact that none of these historians’ work supports the 1619 Project’s main contentions—that slavery was a uniquely American “original sin,” that the American Revolution was launched to defend slavery that slavery was subsidiary to the Civil War’s true struggle for national unity among white racists and that “anti-black racism” is a transcendent force that overrides American history—does not seem to trouble Silverstein white historians only became interested in slavery after the 1950s “the institution [slavery] was treated in canonical works of American history as an aberration best addressed minimally if at all.” Slavery’s centrality to American society was clear to the generation that fought the Civil War and its salience conditioned the histories that followed When Lincoln said in his Second Inaugural Address delivered in 1865 one month before his assassination by white supremacist John Wilkes Booth the cause of the war,” he was not exaggerating The foundations of historical work on slavery emerged in this context Silverstein brushes aside George Bancroft (1800–1891) the founding figure of American historical scholarship as the forger of a white nationalist epic uninterested in slavery But the first volume of Bancroft’s History of the United States traced slavery from the ancient world to the British colonies Bancroft wrote at a time when American history-writing was new—at least American history conceived of as a special branch of human knowledge in the process of separating itself from literature as well as the powerful influences of romanticism and Jacksonian democracy inevitably shaped and constrained his writing Polk administration and supported the predatory Mexican-American War was drawn to the Republican Party and Abraham Lincoln Bancroft’s national providentialism—the idea that American history represented the incarnation of the highest ideals—was undoubtedly influenced by German philosophical idealism He was among the first Americans to earn a doctorate in Germany and where he came to know Goethe and Wilhelm von Humboldt to write history “entirely from writings and sources which were the contemporaries of the events that are described.” Such attention to the record might have benefited Hannah-Jones’ efforts unaware that Bancroft gave substantial consideration to the role of slavery in the American Revolution In a far more realistic appraisal than that put forward by Hannah-Jones and her historian-acolyte Bancroft recognized that there was more potential in slave revolt against the Americans than could be realized by the British because of the empire’s own investment in slavery having taken considerable territory in Georgia and South Carolina in 1779 … might have gained an enduring mastery by emancipating and arming the blacks But the idea that slavery was a sin against humanity was unknown to parliament and to the ministry The thought of universal emancipation had not yet conquered the convictions of the ruling class in England nor touched the life and conscience of the nation The English of that day rioted in the lucrative slave-trade and the zeal of the government in upholding it had been one of the causes that provoked the American war So the advice to organize an army of liberated negroes though persisted in by the royal governor of Virginia [Lord Dunmore] was crushed by the mad eagerness of the British officers and soldiers in America for plunder The twelfth chapter of Bancroft’s tenth volume entitled “The Rise of the Free Commonwealths,” contains a lengthy discussion of the tensions surrounding slavery that emerged toward the end of the revolution Freedom is of all races and of all nationalities and ever rises again from the enslavements laid on by the hand of violence or custom or abuse of power; for the rights of man spring from eternal law are kept alive by the persistent energy of constant nature and by their own indestructibility prove their lineage as the children of omnipotence Bancroft went on to condemn racism as a cover for slavery the ownership of white men by white men still blighted more than the half of Europe where a difference of skin set a visible mark on the victims of commercial avarice and strengthened the ties of selfishness by the pride of race Bancroft was not alone in considering slavery crucial to American history addressed slavery and racism in his own six-volume History of the United States published History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880: Negroes as Slaves a distant relative of George Bancroft and one of the namesakes of the prestigious Bancroft Prize published A Sketch of the Negro in Politics Especially in South Carolina and Mississippi in 1885 and followed it up with Slavery in Missouri in 1914 Ballagh published A History of Slavery in Virginia in 1902 The attempt to write slavery out of American history and to reduce Lincoln to a mere national unifier rather than the leader of the Second American Revolution would have to wait for the so-called Dunning School of historiography that Silverstein passes over in silence this among the most racist of all iterations of American historiography Named after William Archibald Dunning (1857–1922) of Columbia University the Dunning School assumed that blacks were incapable of engaging in effective citizenship and that the only period to date in which there had been a degree of interracial political cooperation in the South Silverstein’s failure to mention Dunning is odd only on the surface The 1619 Project’s approach to American history is actually Dunning’s mirror image the Dunning School—among whose practitioners was Woodrow Wilson the president of Princeton University before becoming New Jersey governor and then US president—saw the Civil War as the accidental outcome of overheated politics it held that Lincoln’s overriding aim in the Civil War was preservation of the Union with the emergence of the slavery question only incidental to the war itself Heavily influenced by pseudoscientific racial theories of the day—theories that emerged to justify and rationalize the eruption of American imperialism abroad and capitalist exploitation at home—the Dunning School saw whites and blacks as separate “folk” with different interests that required segregation for the protection of each much like Critical Race Theory proposes “safe spaces” for different races today There was significant intellectual overlap between the Dunning School and the Progressive historians Progressive historians like Charles and Mary Beard believed that the intense political controversy over slavery before the Civil War was merely a cloak behind which the “real” fight over competing economic interests took place—economic interests that they somehow separated from slavery The overlap between Dunning and the Progressives was not merely intellectual One of the leading figures in both groups was Ulrich B Phillips—a student of Dunning and a close associate of leading Progressive historian Frederick Jackson Turner Phillips saw slavery as largely beneficial to the slaves only to note that the historian had found slavery to be an essentially inefficient economic system Perhaps the most pernicious aspect of Silverstein’s historiography is his attempt to place Hannah-Jones and the 1619 Project as the inheritors of major African American historians including the aforementioned George Washington Williams His unmistakable implication is that Hannah-Jones stands in their tradition because she is black this may be the only thing that Hannah-Jones has in common with these historians Silverstein writes that the historian’s “work posed profound questions about the traditional narrative of the founding era.” He insinuates that Quarles predicted the 1619 Project’s claim that the American Revolution was a counterrevolution waged to defend slavery This is in fact not at all what Quarles thought The following lines are from his Preface to The Negro in the American Revolution: [B]lack Americans quickly caught the spirit of ‘76 the most prominent colored American of the nineteenth century the Revolutionary War announced to Negroes “the advent of a nation based upon human brotherhood and the self-evident truths of liberty and equality.” There were portents of a new era Individual slaves petitioned for their manumission; groups of slaves memorialized state legislatures to abolish slavery a gallery of distinguished Negroes made their appearance founder of Negro Masonry; and Benjamin Banneker mathematician and astronomer… [T]he changed American sentiment toward drawing Negroes into the war … was in part a reflection of the humanitarian impulse which inspired the Revolution and was engendered by it and action was taken on both Continental and state levels American historiography does not yield the results he wants But in the end his discussion of historiography is a red herring no historiography behind the 1619 Project when it was released There were no sources listed; no historians referenced a group of historians have rallied to the banner of the 1619 Project These include Woody Holton of the University of South Carolina David Waldstreicher of City University of New York and Nicholas Guyatt of Cambridge University or to be on the right side of the current fad these historians are perfectly willing to lead non-collegial and intemperate attacks on those who have criticized the 1619 Project Their efforts to lend scholarly legitimacy to the 1619 Project only serve to undermine the credibility of their own work It was in fact clear from the outset that Hannah-Jones’ “framing essay” relied exclusively on only two books from just one historian the late black nationalist Lerone Bennett Jr Hannah-Jones utilized Bennett’s widely criticized Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream (2000) even choosing the very same moments from the sixteenth president’s long career Bennett had used in his effort to portray Lincoln as a simple racist Hannah-Jones has repeatedly said she was inspired by Bennett’s Before the Mayflower (1962) though inevitably limited by his bourgeois nationalist bent is a far worthier introduction to African American history than the 1619 Project Bennett’s earlier work is actually populated by historical actors There are very few people in the pages of the 1619 Project Those that appear are the mere playthings of the real actor: the supra-historical impulses referred to as “whiteness” and “anti-black racism.” The Times’ Project is a politically-motivated falsification of history It presents the origins of the United States entirely through the prism of racial conflict in “privileging ‘actual fact’ over ‘narrative,’” critics of the 1619 Project “seem to proceed from the premise that history is a fixed thing; that somehow the nation’s historians identified the relevant set of facts about our past and it is the job of subsequent generations to simply protect and disseminate them.” This passage comes after a lengthy discussion of efforts by far-right Republicans who have sought to censor the 1619 Project—efforts which the WSWS opposes Silverstein’s aim is to conflate scholarly and left-wing criticism of the 1619 Project with the likes of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton who have seized on the 1619 Project’s attack on the American Revolution to posture as defenders of democracy and with earlier efforts by the Republican Party in the 1990s to eliminate what they derided as “revisionist history” from high school textbooks That the writing of history involves interpretation of evidence is the most elementary proposition of the profession To suggest that historians such as Gordon Wood and James McPherson have viewed their task to be to “protect and disseminate” facts reveals far more of Silverstein’s own ignorance than it does these historians’ monumental achievements in researching and writing the histories of the American Revolution and the Civil War But it is not really interpretation of the archive that Silverstein has in mind His brief and reckless foray into historical methodology aims to provide a permission slip for the 1619 Project’s disregarding of facts whenever these contradict the settled-upon “narrative.” Silverstein gives away the game by his placement within cynical quotations marks the word facts and by his admission that he does not view history to be “a fixed thing.” But history is “a fixed thing” in at least one sense They did so under conditions not of their own choosing but those handed down to them from preceding generations Out of the development of the productive forces with apologies to Hannah-Jones—race developed always reflecting the ideology of the ruling layers and always interacting dynamically with the class structure The racialist conception of history has an unpleasant pedigree It emerged as part of the counter-Enlightenment’s irrationalist and anti-scientific attack on the principle of human equality as a justification for actually existing inequality A landmark in this vein was the French aristocrat Arthur de Gobineau’s An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races a counterrevolutionary tract written after the crushing of the French Revolution of 1848 Gobineau’s theories were picked up by the southern slaveowners in the 1850s and in the late 19th century they fed into the false application of Darwinian evolution to “human races” and merged into the ideology of the Third Reich It is noteworthy in the highest degree that Ibram Kendi one of the leading racialists at present (and a contributor to the new 1619 Project book) follows in this tradition in his own attack on the Enlightenment holds that race and racism have always been present Gobineau’s racialist conception of history appeared as a ruling class response to the emergence of the working class to the development of the materialist conception of history This Marx and Engels had begun to develop in the 1840s as a critique of the Hegelian dialectic not dissimilarly from Bancroft’s conception of American history had imagined history to be the working out of a transcendent idea into the real world Among the many expositions Marx and Engels gave of the materialist conception of history perhaps the most succinct is a portion of Engels’ eulogy at Marx’s graveside in 1883: Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology etc.; that therefore the production of the immediate material means and consequently the degree of economic development attained by a given people or during a given epoch form the foundation upon which the state institutions Within this vast arena history has unfolded It is “fixed” because none of what happened can ever be changed even by one whit And therein lies both the tragedy of history and its powerful capacity to speak to that which is progressive in the present The tragedy of history and “the lessons” go together This is the Via Dolorosa of the working class But the past cannot speak directly to the present Narrative to the historian—at least as traditionally understood—entails the structuring of the facts of history—thematically and to make it understandable to a contemporary audience This inevitably requires a degree of subjectivity The historian must choose what part of the record to address are conditioned by the demands of the present the relationship between present and past is dialectical history “is an unending dialogue between past and present.” Moved by the mass civil rights movement of the 1960s turned their attention to the history of the fight against slavery If historians now turn once again to the question of Hitler’s rise to power or to the great disease pandemics of the past the wall separating history from fiction is torn down It cannot be insisted too loudly that historical narrative—as opposed to racial mythmaking—is derived from To this it must be added that the best histories have always endeavored to approach the relationship between past and present objectively—to understand the separateness of the past to fathom that those who came before could not know the future Good history avoids the deadly condition E.P Thompson called “the enormous condescension of posterity,” by which the past is evaluated according to the prejudices of the present very often reflect aspects of the ruling ideology Objectivity imparts to good historical writing its own literary quality precisely by placing actors in the drama of their time In certain hands—and one could mention here Wood’s and McPherson’s respective contributions to the Oxford History of the United States Empire of Liberty and Battle Cry of Freedom as exemplars—it brings the episodes of the past very nearly to the level of living phenomena When it is said of good historical writing that “it takes you there” or that it “brings the past to life,” it is this quality that is at play This is not at all what Silverstein and Hannah-Jones have in mind narrative is simply one “story” that can be told about the past—indeed they have even subtitled the just-released 1619 book A New Origin Story What actually happened is of secondary interest and historical context—the conditions that shaped the past—counts for nothing at all History is rummaged through as a junk drawer That found to be useful can be packaged together with the item up for sale Those stubborn facts that refuse to obey are cast aside Silverstein and Hannah-Jones sees it as entirely legitimate to select a few quotes from Lincoln designed to make him appear to be a racist (for example his defensive remarks in debates against the archracist Stephen A Douglas) and to throw out the many more examples of Lincoln’s speeches and writings that would give the opposite impression (for example Silverstein says of history that “we can perceive it only from our present reality.” This statement does “present reality” consist of for Silverstein Do they pause to consider how the future will consider their “present reality” Hannah-Jones professes outrage over the African slavery of the past. But how will the future view the fact that she accepts sponsorship from the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell, the scourge of Africa in the present? Or that she accepts an expensive sinecure at historically black Howard University while the college administration forces students in the present to cohabitate with rats Silverstein encourages history to be more like journalism provides “democracy its greatest service when most unshackled and critical.” Is Silverstein unaware to the fact that the world’s most critical journalist in a maximum-security British prison for daring to expose the lies propagated by the Times about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan It consists of the worst economic crisis and the greatest threat of world war since the Great Depression the threat of environmental catastrophe and ruling classes everywhere lurching toward fascism Profi ended the week with new stores Stei and Gaesti reaching a number of 411 units in 199 localities The total surface is 494 sqm out of which the sales unit has 249 sqm The new store from Gaesti, Dambovita functions in standard format. 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