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Introduction
This paper will seek to illustrate how the author of the book “Hard truths must be told” has linguistically emphasized different scenarios of humiliating and saddening real stories of tribal clashes. The thesis of this paper , which is coined to be “A heart breaking history” will show touching stories that the author has used to illustrate tangible evidence of perpetration of acts against humanity, which records back to past acts which include violence, buying and selling of black men and women in what is termed as slave trade.
Leonard Pitts Jr. has a great wealth of past encounters in history and therefore we find this article very relevant. He has recounted historical scenarios in this planet which include slaves that are bought and sold, mistreated and cheated, lynched and maimed. The author laments that whenever he exposed these, it was always certain to him that he would receive calls and emails of chastisement. For instance, this great poet explains that at one time a certain lady came pleading with him to stop the history behind exposing such kind of tales claiming that such stories could not be of any help except to create resentment within black people. However, he goes on to write the history of tribal clashes in Europe, United Kingdom, Germany etc.

Discussion Its only by appreciating the past and getting more historical information hat someone can be be in a position to correct the errors and mistakes made before. There’s great value in recounting historical stories of this nature, because history shapes the future. We correct our future by looking back at our past mistakes. Understanding yesterday gives context to understand today and therefore be in a position to predict tomorrow. Therefore, its important to tell these stories even though they hurt. Silence can not make hard story disappear.
It is noted that the corridors of justice deny perpetrators of tribal clashes much of their rights as inmates. A Black History Month story given by Brian Stevenson shows great extent of denial of inmates rights that continue to agitate tribal clashes. Stevenson had sent two books set of books to a prisoner called Mark Melvin, who was doing life sentence for murder that he had committed when he was fourteen years old. One of the books was termed as Slavery By Another Name. It sought to indicate how the South had instituted a kind of de facto slavery by arresting great number of black men on what he terms as nonsense charges and thereafter selling them to turpentine farms and plantations, among other places that are identified with back-breaking labor. Because the prison officials didn’t like the idea and the information that the book conveyed, they banned one of the books and only allowed to enter. They termed it too provocative. Although they didn’t read the book themselves, they expressed concerns that it was too dangerous and therefore could not keep it in prison.
Denial by the state to administer justice. According to Leonard, it is clear that the corridors of justice denied that the state had participated in encouraging violations of human rights and racial crimes. When Stevenson filed a suit due to the refusal by the courts officials to let an inmate receive a book, we get to realize that the case eloquently spoke to their complicated relationship with American-African history in what was referred to as a week of Negro History. There seems to be a lot of denial by of the fact that the court has been sabotaging the freedom of inmates caught in tribal clash scenarios. The author writes that the issue is obvious a frightful and embarrassing history that has been suppressed. In still another situation, it comes out clearly that other nations that have tried to regain from problems of human rights that are severe have taken decades have had to appreciate that reconciliation is of paramount importance for restoration to occur. Through the writer’s comparison, it is noted that reconciliation was the only way forward in nations like Rwanda, South Africa, among other states that have ever experienced tribal clashes. However, this does not seem to be the case in the United States.
There is seen to exist fake integration, in the sate. We get to notice that there’s minimization of what is termed as integration in that state. The Former Mississippi Gov. made claims that integration in that territory was quite a pleasant experience. In reality, this is sarcastic because we get to learn that what he referred to as integration was actually characterized by social vice like fatal riot, firebombing, assassination of activists like Mergar Evers, not mentioning the murders like those of the three voting rights workers. The only weapon that can effectively help to stop such kind of lies is by trying to tell the truth and speak it loudly in the points of untruth, denial and equivocation. The good thing with this is because you don’t permission from any one to do this, but can take initiative like Leonard did.
In concluding remarks, it’s always good for a country to preach peace by portraying peace herself and walking the talk. The writer has sarcastically criticized the state government for the manner in which it handled cases of tribal clashes. He has urged other nationalities to come out and speak out these issues with boldness.