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Originally Posted by wittynickname
The US likes to celebrate Thanksgiving Day and then tucks all that "genocide of the Native Americans" under the rug. They like to celebrate Lincoln freeing the slaves, but pretend Americans weren't the ones doing the slave buying/selling/trading. There are awful parts of American history that you don't learn unless you research well beyond what you're taught in school. We refuse to face our flaws as a country, and so we can't ever move past them.
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Christopher Columbus (Day) is another one.