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Originally Posted by Gypsy
Except we're not talking about slavery or African American political, intellectual, cultural, religious, and social history.
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Who are "we"? Why are we not? Are we really not? (Is African American history unrelated to debates over immigration, immigration policy, and "assimilation"?)
Why do "we" make these broad references to some parts of American history (the debate over the constitution and immigration policy) and not others (slavery and the Atlantic world, the history of the working classe
s, Reconstruction, and America's "rise to globalism")?
What might be different today if we took a more comprehensive look at our yesterdays? (I'd bet we would not have our current president--IMO, he's deliberately playing to the blind side of America's historical memory.)