It’s a fantasy that airbrushes out the more complicated parts of our history – slavery, the Native American genocide, the actual secular ideals on which our government was founded. It wasn’t the opening of the clouds and some revealed covenant with God as they would have you believe.
Jared Huffman: “It’s a fantasy that airbrushes out the more complicated parts of our history – slavery, the Native American genocide…”
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Discussing the ideological overhaul of the semiquincentennial.
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