Harold Jarche on Nostr: “America could not bear to take a hard look at itself, especially the inconvenient ...
“America could not bear to take a hard look at itself, especially the inconvenient truths of slavery, dispossession and genocide. Religion and profit, ‘jumping together,’ had little time for introspection. The slaveholder, the frontiersman and the fundamentalist all hated the historian — and anti-intellectualism has been a strong force ever since.” —Ronald Wright (2008) What is America?
https://jarche.com/2009/04/what-is-america/ 
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