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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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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We would say that they realized the true ideals of America, that were always present, but not properly realized at the founding. In fact we would create a significant mythology about how the founders really wanted to do them in the first place!
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