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Let America Be America Again
America, too, needs a redemption narrative, a shared story for the America being born in our time. Perhaps the Exodus from Egypt, once deemed so dangerous that it had to be excised from some Bibles, will awaken our moral imagination as we strive to write a new story for this nation. I still believe that together we can build a redeemed society. A m
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Jonathan Simcoe added
Powerful.If America is to be salvific, it can only be so because underneath our skyscrapers lie the people who have tasted the red clay, the loamy soil. Lashed, hidden, running, captured. Crucified for gain, bloodying the soil. If their dreams can become “we” dreams, hope will spring. “Greatness” is such an egotistical and dangerous word. But in the land of
... See morefrom South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry