2/ Some people emphasize our enlightened ideals and genuine strengths, yet refuse to face the underlying evils of our national transgressions and the moral responsibility to heal them.
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1/ America has always been an ironic mix - we’re based on the highest aspirational ideals, yet we ourselves have been at times the most violent transgressors against them.
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3/ Others, however, are so focused on the mistakes of our past and present but they fail to realize the underlying principles and ideals that are the basis of our ability to course-correct.
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4/ Anyone who thinks America is “all good,” sadly has it wrong. But anyone who thinks America is “all bad” has it wrong as well. We need to hold the realization of both. We in our time, like others before us, are called upon to make a choice for “the angels of our better nature.”
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It’s honestly “the victor creates the history” and whitewashing has romanticized our past; ignoring the 400 years of slavery, genocide and imperialism on the idea that “we’re all equal” when that has never been the case unless you’re white and wealthy
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I don’t think we’ve ignored them. I admit that our public education system has ignored them in too many cases, and our govt as well. But some people act today as though they’re the first people to discover American history. It’s just not true.
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It’s time to move forward and up! The past is a cancelled check. We have come too far to drudge up the past like this. It’s counterproductive. Please stop.
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“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” - Wm. Faulkner. Until we heal the past we are destined to repeat it, and that’s as true for a country as it is for an individual.
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May we be remembered as a generation that rose up and stepped in...And by doing so-changed the world.pic.twitter.com/j8JXZeBRvh
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The Greatness of America has never been found in perfection. America is Great in comparison. We have clawed out from the royal, papal mess of our ancestors. We have bled to cleanse ourselves and others and have worked forward to our ideals, sanctuary for Liberty among our sins.
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Ironic? Not for us....
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