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I’m in no mood to ‘celebrate’ America. Our country is broken and needs repair | Jamil Smith
America at 250 is not a finished monument, but a structure still under repair To call this Saturday the nation’s 250th birthday is to indulge a comfortable fiction. 1776 was a declaration, not a birth certificate – and the founders wrote its claims of human equality while this nation enslaved human beings. A truer account of American freedom runs through 1619 and Juneteenth , when Americans forced the country, at last, to begin making its promises answerable to reality. So I’m not in the mood t…
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