I grew up to imagine America as some kind of paradise of freedom and unlimited possibilities, and every American still has kind of a halo for me...
Yeah. That's the story. That's the story that we tell and that everyone wants to believe. We hope the world doesn't ask about witch hunts, slavery, what we did to the Native Americans, the Japanese internment camps, McCarthyism. . .
I do think the world needs an open, free, critical and tolerant nation. I would like it to be America. But I don't know that we as a country are quite ready to take on that role. I don't know if there is a country that's really ready to take on that role. The best we can do right now is to work toward it.
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rosecarmine
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Date: 2006-02-26 02:19 pm (UTC)Yeah. That's the story. That's the story that we tell and that everyone wants to believe. We hope the world doesn't ask about witch hunts, slavery, what we did to the Native Americans, the Japanese internment camps, McCarthyism. . .
I do think the world needs an open, free, critical and tolerant nation. I would like it to be America. But I don't know that we as a country are quite ready to take on that role. I don't know if there is a country that's really ready to take on that role. The best we can do right now is to work toward it.