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TMBS ReAir 98 - Ilhan & AOC Outclass Pelosi & Post-Empire Politics ft. Daniel Bessner

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The Power of Atonement

In 1988, Ronald Reagan signed the American Civil Liberties Act and everybody who had been a prisoner in World War II were given between 20 and $22,000. When slavery was abolished in this country, the US government promised that every former enslaved person, family of four would receive 40 acres in a mule. That's not what we're talking about when you talk about national atonement and national amends. For a nation, you can't have the future you want unless you're willing to clean up the past. This is amazing. She's articulating it really well. And she and Dave is the perfect moral and intellectual void to symbolize whiteness. Yes.

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