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So I tend to think about American history as a tug of war between these two diametrically

opposed forces.

We have a country that is founded at its inception with a explicit racialized caste system,

right, that we defined what it meant to be white, and that that set of people had access to

full citizenship, rights were recognized as fully human, and then you had indigenous black

people here who were defined as less than that.

And that over the course of our history, we've seen a tug of war between forces that would seek

to make our democracy a multiracial democracy, to get that full citizenship for everyone,

regardless of rights, and on the other hand, you've got forces that would seek to pull back,

to keep things the way they are, to retain a status quo.

And so what we see over our history is that at almost any point you go to,

you have forces who are pulling in both directions.

Very often, we focus on those forces of anti-racism, whether it be the civil rights movement

or the abolitionists, but equally important understanding our history is understanding those

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