History Takes Shape: A Never Ending Circle

American Philosopher George Santayana warned, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Whether it be remembering the past or learning from it, the consequences of history repeating itself is far greater than any other consequence. The world must be educated in the events of the past so that the future can thrive. If mankind is not taught about the atrocities of the Holocaust, those atrocities will be repeated in cities and countries around the world. Evidence of this repetition is seen in modern-day American ghettos, and in Darfur.

Evidence that history has begun to repeat itself is seen in American cities across the country. Proof that the Holocaust must be taught is first witnessed in American ghettos. Like the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust, these communities are often filthy and poorly managed. The buildings are littered with trash and infested with insects and vermin. In his book Coming Up Black: Patterns of Ghetto Socialization, David Schulz, a well-known researcher on society, reveals how ghettos are mirroring the overcrowding in Warsaw because more than 10,000 people “[are] living in filth” (Schulz 4). Correlations are made between a lack of proper education and the repeating occurrences. For example, most adolescents do not experience stable environments that promote learning. In ghetto providences across the country, children “attend five or six schools before they get out of grade school” (Schulz 15). As a result, the education of today’s youth is hindered. A properly-educated youth is crucial to avoid reiterating history. On the contrary, many argue that the Holocaust has been recognized so repetition will be avoided. The argument is that banks and governments worldwide “…acknowledged thei...

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...people during the Holocaust is mirrored in the outstanding suffering of four million individuals, and counting, during the Darfur genocide. Obviously, the world must be taught about Holocaust so wars like Darfur will not continue to perpetuate history around the world.

Undoubtedly, history has been on a deadly replay for decades resulting in modern-day tragedies like American Ghettos and Darfur making it imperative that the world revisit the events in the Holocaust. For the future to be promising, the world must join together in educating one another on the atrocities that have rotted the past. Until then, history will continue to exhibit the same brutal events in different locations. The urgency of this issue is conveyed in the words of Will Durant who confesses, “The story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.”