The idea of "Hamilton", I think, is that there would be a fundamental continuity between America's founding ideals and a modern, diverse, racially inclusive America. That America was not "stamped from the beginning" with racism, but was always destined to throw off its yoke.https://twitter.com/SeanTrende/status/1279228569449881605 …
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Sure. But maybe it's just a cultural thing, and a generation where half the people believed that America was a white ethnostate must simply pass into memory.
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I think the realization post-Obama, post-“post-racial” presidency is that this isn’t going to automatically happen.
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As in, maybe stuff that was casually tolerated before for decades is much more metastatic than we thought and has to be addressed at Stage 1 before it becomes Stage 4.
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The Reconstruction Amendments to the Constitution make a pretty strong implicit statement that the American nation, at its founding, was super duper racist, and they seek to radically change that. But I don’t think many would argue today that they abolished America.
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