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Corey Deitz
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undo the placement of 120,000 Japanese Americans into internment camps
during World War II. We can’t erase the wars against our outer enemies
and between ourselves. We can’t modify or rewrite our history which is
rife with consequences no one could foresee.
This is such an imperfect world and as much as we might want it to
be resistant to national mistakes, natural tragedies, abhorrent genocides,
and all the other evils which suck the joy out of living, we are faced with
one decision: either pick up and go on or - jump in the hole.
The question still remains: how is it so many of our great
American moments have been repositioned into selfish, somewhat awful
events which cast our country in the poorest light? When did America
become so self-loathing? Why does a certain segment of our own
population believe that the United States of America is the root of so many
evils?
All we can do is forgive ourselves and admit our imperfection
while moving forward “…in Order to form a more perfect Union.”
We need to stop being so critical of ourselves and remember all the
good that has come out of America which more than justifies any of the
bad. We used to “melt” a lot better and when we did, we were more
unified as a people and forgiving as a nation.
We need more pride.
We need more cohesiveness.
We need to remember we are decent people.
Somewhere along the way we seem to have stopped melting.
People still keep immigrating to America but the larger we become, the
more fragmented we seem to be. We have a thousand ways to define
imaginary lines of demarcation that only serve to sever our unity as
Americans.
White, black, yellow, red.
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