To me, America refuses to acknowledge or engage in any debate concerning its role in slavery at the beginning of its founding and the resulting attitudes it has towards its own Black African descendants. ... But that's one of the several points of this essay; I am saying that we can't go forward into the future making the same mistake over and over again unless we acknowledge that there is a error in our development as a nation that is impacting the lives of many people in a negative way. ... America should get off of its big brother pedestal and accept the blame for something it ...

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