This is about whether or not people are being held against their will, irrespective of what their duties and responsibilities are to that system that they have brought into and did not ask to come into.
Clyburn critiques the narrative surrounding enslaved individuals and emphasizes their lack of agency.
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I would hope that we convene in a bipartisan basis, resurrect the goodnesses of the American people and maintain the greatness of these United States of America.
I've been saying for years that we should teach the full history of this country, the history of those who came here in search of freedom, as well as the history of those who came here, having lost their freedom.
Yes, I am. I am just an optimist, I guess. I think that cooler heads will prevail in the final analysis. If we have a shutdown. I don't think we will recover from it anytime soon.
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