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Offline: Chimamanda Adichie on the Death of Good Faith

Pod Save America

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I Think the Focus on African American History Should Be More Narrative

I think that if people really understood just the the magnitude of, and i'm just going to use a word like evil that the american state perpetuated on black people, i think that most, most, you know, good human beings would not be so horrified at the thought of reparations. For example, my American home is in maryland, and to think that as recently as the seventies, and communities in that state, people were draining their swimming pools so that black families would not swim. And fror me, i'm thinking, what, you know? It's not avorits in the 19 seventi. I feel as though part of the problem with the

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