Abuse Of Power In The One And Only Truth

We were raised in a world where we have been indirectly forced to believe “The One and Only Truth”, leading us to assume that the stories that we have been thought and told, are the only ones that exist, that our reality had to be either this or that without any chances of in between or a combination of each.

No story has only one side since everybody is different and each person sees the story from its own perspective. To tell one side of history doesn’t mean the other side doesn’t exist or that it can be hidden or put away just like that. We tend to choose which one to believe, the one that better suits us, that makes us look good or that doesn’t harm our reputation. All because of abuse of power. When this happens, it is mostly to get

We are hiding them depriving them of claiming their right of being a person, a human being. This is where the topic of the abuse of power fits because power it’s what determines the beginning of a single story.

On her TED Talk, Adichie used an Igbo word: “nkali”. It means “to be greater than another’’. She says that stories too are defined by the principle of nkali: “How they are told, who tells them, when they are told and how many stories are told, are really dependent on power” (4). The abuse of power is an issue that has affected society since the beginning.

When it comes to getting to know our own history, especially in the United States people have been deprived of the right to know the truth. White people have taken the advantage since the beginning given the fact that they have been the ones that have been in charge, giving them the “right” to write and/or omit facts of history as they pleased, making of one story to become the only

Let’s talk about the Hemmings Family, for instance, enslaved family in the United States and even though they were white, just because of the simple fact that they were slaves they weren’t considered important, they weren’t considered human beings. Therefore, the abuse of power plays a big role when it comes to talking about a single story. The Hemings family was “erased” from history, their story was hidden from the eye of society but the white folks from that time failed to understand that the fact of “hiding” is not the same as the total destruction of