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interpret your work that way and make it a key part of their politics? i think that most republicans who say things like that have not bothered to read even a single essay in the 1619 project, and especially not my opening essay on democracy, which talks about my dad flying this flag despite being born into a country where black people had no legal equality, and ends with me saying that black people have as much claim on this country because we helped build democracy as any group of people here. if that s not america, that s basically saying that black people are not american and that our freedom struggles to help this country live up to its founding ideals is anti-american. we know that that s a very old trope that conservatives have used to say that those who call on our country to live up to its highest ideals are not american. what i would say is not american is, you know, supporting an insurrection on the capitol of

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