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Racism Informs the Lies of American Exceptionalism (Zora)
The myth of America's greatness is the biggest scam of all time. It allows us to erase the most shameful parts of our history - genocide, slavery, human, settler-colonialism - and gives us a forever-hall-pass for our future mistakes. (Check out my full syllabus for my college course "Teaching Race" and read more critiques of the American Dream as a pyramid scheme!)
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