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Tom Rinaldo

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Sat Aug 19, 2017, 09:32 PM Aug 2017

"Our great country has been divided for decades." DECADES???? [View all]

No, it's been centuries. Literally. Centuries. Decades is the word you use to describe events of the last twenty, thirty, forty, or maybe even fifty years. 1960 was 57 years ago. MLK Jr. was assassinated roughly 50 years ago.

So when exactly does Trump think America was united? Before the Civil Rights movement? When Blacks still "knew their place"? When America was called White by those in control, and the phrase Affirmative Action had not yet even been uttered?

Trump says he wants to make America Great Again. Well he sure as hell can't mean before racism was a plague on our Nation's soul, because it always has been. Americans of all races have slowly, painstakingly been struggling to make America greater. Much of that work has been done over decades. Those very same decades that Trump believes have left Americans divided. Perhaps he never noticed that America has always been divided, except some of us were always supposed to act invisible, living quietly in actual of de facto segregated communities. Seperate and unequal, and left out of the great American picture show.

America actually has slowly been healing the wounds of our deep division, over decades. Our President obviously views those decades differently.

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