Facebook Publication Date: 3/27/2022 11:03

This is what it means to get history right.

Most of the looking back we do is nostalgic.

And when we do look back to uncover past wrongs, usually we are turning our lenses to anyone but ourselves.

The Seattle Times, through the amazing work of Naomi Ishisaka , does two difficult things at once this Sunday morning.

The first thing they did is to publish an amazing piece of what actually went down 80 years ago.

*The second thing they did was to admit that they got it wrong in 1942*.

Their coverage was wrong, and stood in contrast to other publishers in Seattle who got it right.

I wanted to take a moment and really think about the implications of this admission.

The humility oh, absolutely. But it’s so much more than just the admission.

For me, what’s more important is that forces us to look at what has been said to us by the media with absolutely clear eyes.

It forces us to think of and to reconsider the building blocks of what we know as common and accepted knowledge and narrative, because when these foundational stones are fatally flawed anything else built from that original fiction is tainted.

The Seattle Times could have done a piece commemorating all of this fetid history with little to no mention of their own participation in it.

They chose not to.

And that is courageous.

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