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“Only if we can develop a broadly shared understanding of our common history will it be practical to consider steps we could take to fulfill our obligations.”
Patriotism is or it is not, there is no such thing as thin patriotism. Everyone wants the benefits of American citizenship, but they do not want the debts and obligations incurred to obtain those privileges. The Civil War is a lot closer to to us than 1776, yet we enthusiastically celebrate the fourth of July. We fail to teach in our school curriculum that some slaveholders were compensated for each slave freed. We do not teach this, because the next question is: what did the slaves receive? Then we must answer truthfully: nothing. This answer leads to the important question: why? It is at this point things fall apart. To answer why will eventually bring us to a moral judgment: but is that fair? When we answer that question it finally brings us to the question that scares us: so what are we going to do about it? Or perhaps someone might ask: how are we going to make this right?

“At the time, the Federal Housing Administration and Veterans Administration not only refused to insure mortgages for African Americans in designated white neighborhoods like Ladera; they also would not insure mortgages for whites in a neighborhood where African Americans were present.”