Week 6- " Time and Distance Overcome"

The title actually keeps throwing me off the more I think about it. Assuming we've all read this story, its very clear of the gruesome turn it takes. This being said, why call the piece what it is? I suppose Bell "overcame"the rebellion to setting up telephone poles and made the first call from New York to California but, that wasn't the theme of the piece was it? The theme to me was humanity becoming violently resistant to the new changes between African Americans gaining freedom and rights as well as advancements in technology. They called this "The turn of the century" but they should call it something of a dark turning period in our history. Bliss states, " Now, I tell my sister, these poles, these wires, do not look the same to me.". This line alone at the end make sit clear to me that Bells grand achievement might have been a huge breakthrough and perhaps its the positives which we need to focus on. But what Bliss seems to want to make clear is what history attempts to avaoid  revealing, the lynchings and massacres of African Americans using the telephone wires and poles as weapons. It was almost like these people in this century were killing two birds with one stone by taking their hatred on the two things they wanted gone. Its a very dark piece but unfortunately Bliss is right in my opinion to expose us to this so we are to know history in order to prevent things like this from ever happening again.