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The Racial Reckoning Comes

Trump has changed our national narrative.

David Brooks

By David Brooks

Opinion Columnist

June 6, 2019

       Immigrants and their supporters marching in Los Angeles in 2017.CreditCreditDavid Mcnew/Getty Images

When I was a boy I was taught a certain story about America. This was the land of opportunity. Immigrants came to this land and found an open field and a fair chance to pursue their dreams. In this story Benjamin Franklin could be held up as the quintessential American — the young hustler, who through his ingenuity and dogged self-improvement created new businesses and communities, a new sort of person and a new sort of country...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/opinion/america-racism.html

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