Is There a Single, Uncontested, Shared Narrative About the Past?

Black people did not, until ah the end of the civil war with the reconstruction amendment, believe in the constitution. The constitution laid out no vision for us as citizens or us as free individuals. So i don't know if there is one collective, unifying narrative about america. I do think we are a nation that is exceptional in ways that we should not be proud of. We incarcerate more people than any country in the world. And until we are honest about that upon which we are built, we will never become the country that we believe ourselves to be.