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Berry probably doesnât know who Carney was.
Neither, I bet, do the Black Lives Matter activists who spent last summer blindly tearing down statues of historical figures to protest the racist origins of America and the systemic racism they claim exists today.
Thanks to the lousy way history is taught in our schools, most Americans â of every color â have never heard of William Carney.
But who he was, what brave things he did on a Civil War battlefield, and what he thought about America and its flag should have become common knowledge many Fourths of July ago.
Carney was born a slave in Virginia in 1840, but his father escaped to the North on the Underground Railroad and made enough money in Massachusetts to purchase the freedom of the rest of his family.
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