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Recently, a veteran politician made a controversial statement about history, saying one group of people is justified in killing another group of people because in the past that group had killed many of the other. This kind of “tit-for-tat” response uses history as a justification for any action. In this week's column, I wish to illuminate my idea of how history can be baggage that affects us in moving forward in the present.
History, to me, can be a good foundation or baggage that weighs us down so much we can hardly move at all. To get my point across, I need you to think about what constitutes “baggage” and what “history” actually is.
