I Know Why the Mockingbird Sings

How would one describe America now? How could one? To do so is as much an exercise in contradiction as self-incrimination. From which stories, which facts, which heroes and villains should the collective American story be narrated? Where does truth reside in a country set between a white history, a black history, and the unsung others? Between Barack Obama and Donald Trump? The American political intelligentsia suggests that America is ‘more divided’ than ever. This is a rather peculiar co

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