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And so my mind races in a different direction this morning. Saw a post on LinkedIn about Albert Einstein giving a lecture to a group of mainly African American students from 1946 (as claimed). In my view the picture tries to portray him as a saviour type personality who was against racism of all sorts. It's also mentioned that he was criticized by his peers for conducting that session.

While I am absolutely against any racism in any form for anyone. I have a fundamental issue about using history / past events as a tool to prove/validate viewpoints. It's like proving a mathematical theorem where we already know the outcome. I have read parts of Albert Einstein's travel diaries on BBC and History Channel etc. So there are some questions around his beliefs based on his documented comments. 

This deeply relates to the entire "CONTENT" engineering issue that we see today and which we will see more and more, in an extremely divided, post COVID19 world.

Black lives matter and infact all lives on this planet matter, but we have to examine and differentiate between propoganda and truth, even when we are fighting racism. 

There is no denial that, for the last 50+ years or more, we could have done a lot more as humanity, on many fronts such as racism and economic disparity. Especially in wake of technological progress we have witnessed. We have to keep asking questions, questions on content that we consume, questions on our 'unquestioned' beliefs, question on the default patterns that we have been programmed to think 'like' , etc. etc. 

Irrespective of answers or no answers. Keep asking the questions! Because we are HUMAN because we ask questions!! 

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