Sunday, March 30, 2014
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Latifah Nurhasanah
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THE REVEALER OF THE TRUTH HISTORY
Introduction
Howard Zinn is an American radical
historian, inspirational author, and revealer of lies. Howard Zinn is a person that famous because
legendary book that he has wrote: “A people 's history of the united
states," exactly in his article,
that is “Speaking Truth to Power with Books.” The most interesting of this article is the
courage of a Howard Zinn who deserves got a lot of appreciation from everyone
in America, even in the world, because Zinn is able to reveal the dark side of
the history of the continent the American, who was none other than the target
arrows pointing directly to the "inventor" of Christopher Columbus. A
little more Howard Zinn has revealed a lie from the legendary history. Therefor in This paper offers an summary and
a critical insight/perspective on Howard Zinn’s article entitled “Speaking
Truth to Power with Books”.
Summary
There are several basic points that Zinn wrote on Columbus, whom we
ridicolusly percieve as the hero/the discoverer of America. First, who
is the real Columbus? With this firmly in his article, Howard Zinn said that Christhoper Columbus was
not the discoverer of America and Christhoper Columbus is not the person who first
arrived on the continent of America, Christopher Columbus was not as good and
powerful as what the American people knew before. Rather Christhoper Columbus
is a villain, genocida, a liar, a rapist, sadistic killer, etc.
At the begining, Zinn’s opinion caused much
conflict of public, many people in
America assume that Howard Zinn was a communist
who had opposing views about Columbus itself, because citizen there believe that
Columbus is their hero, and they always proud of him, even they has a special
day for celebrate Columbus, but Zinn refused all of perspective’s people there,
it is different with Noam Chomsky, Chomsky has always prided Howard Zinn, he
always defended Howard Zinn because the thought of the historian. Such as in his quotes “He changed the
consciousness of a generation.” (Noam Chomsky), Chomsky assume that Howard Zinn
has changed the consciousness, perspective and assumption of a generation and
Chomsky also agree and support what has Howard Zinn said about Christhoper
Columbus and the truth history of America.
Second,
what is columbus perpose in America?
As described that Christhoper Columbus did
a cruise on the basis of orders from the queen Isabella , because Columbus raping
a girl when Columbus royal and was sentenced, he does not feel the deterrent.
Therefore, he was assigned to do a cruise to the plains of India , with the aim
of Columbus did not return to their territory.Columbus assume that land which
he and his flock visited it is India, but instead, it is the American mainland.
over there Columbus committed many crimes, such as golden seized, slavery,
violence, tortured, kidnapped, killed, and even mutilated the indigenous because just for make him fun.
Columbus like a psychopath, who do anything to fulfill his wishes, because of
that, Howard Zinn said that Christhoper Columbus is just a
criminal. Columbus is just a massive
liar of America continent, no more.
Besides Howard Zinn, there is also Samuel
Elliot Morrison that make a description of the crime Christhoper Columbus,
but Zinn has cynical view about the Morrison's
writing, Zinn said that “Morrison was not lying about atrocities Columbus. He
even called the sailors have committed genocide on Indian Arawaks. However,
Zinn wrote, the facts listed on this one page, later he is loosed in hundreds
of other pages that exalts the greatness of the sailors”. Zinn assume that Morrisson more explain about
the greatness of Christhoper Columbus than his crime. As if Morrison more pro with Christopher
Columbus, and tried to cover up crime of Christhoper Columbus itself, because
of that, Howard Zinn has a cynical views of Morrison.
Critique
Howard Zinn is a legend for young radicals.
Howard Zinn is also an inspiring writer who has courage enough to reveal a
history major, but Howard Zinn also only an ordinary person who has its
drawbacks. So, There are several points on Columbus that
are neglected in Zinn’s article but in this paper, I just mention a point that
neglected in Zinn’s article. That is the
real inventor and arrived in America for the firs time.
Did Howard Zinn forget all of about it or
did he too radical? Those are questions, why a Howard Zinn does not reveal who the
inventor and those who first arrived on the American mainland far away before
Columbus. Whereas if explored further, the answer is the people
who first arrived in America is Islam. this is explained by the wide range of
available evidence. As told by Fareed H.Numan in
the “American Muslim History A Chronological Observation” that:''
There is no doubt, Muslims have historically been an influence in the evolution
of American society a few centuries before Christopher Columbus found it.”
Beside that, history recorded of African
Muslims have established good relationships with the natives of the American
continent long before Columbus arrived in the mainland. In Washington DC There is a library of congress in which
there is an archive of the U.S. government treaty with the Cherokee tribe,
which is one of the Indian tribes, in 1787 and the signature of the agreement
is found chieftain named Muhammad Ibn Abdullah Abdekhak and, as well as the
contents of the agreement between other rights of the Cherokee tribe to
establish its existence in terms of trade, shipping and form his government who
was using Islamic law. Not only that, from about the dress, script writing, the
names of the Indian tribes themselves based on Islam. Then a lot of physical evidence, such as
inscriptions prove that long before Columbus arrived in the Americas, there has
been a prominent Chinese Muslim admiral named Cheng Ho or Zheng He who arrived
70 years before Columbus. Even some historians also argue that centuries before
Zheng He, the merchants at the same Muslim sailors already setting foot on the
American continent and make settlements there.
Conclusion
There is a basic point that can be concluded from Zinn’s article. That an American inventor "Cristhoper
Columbus" was not the real inventor, and the first person who arrived in America, but the Muslimin that has the primary and
essential role in the discovery of the American continent as evidenced with
many kind of evidence. While Howard Zinn article is only used as an opener,
change and fix the perspective and beliefs western people who was still closedat
that time. This is probably the main purpose Zinn is aware people about the
truth of a person's thinking about Christhoper Columbus who said that he was the
first inventor of the Amerika continent.
Reference:
Howard, Zinn.
(1980). A People’s History of The United States. United States: Harper
& Row; HarperCollins
Zinn, Howard. Speaking Truth to Power with Books.
Blackwell Publishing Ltd.


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