There is No Single American Story: Clint Smith

America is a place that has provided unparalleled opportunities and upward mobility for millions of people across generations in ways that their ancestors could have never imagined. And it has often done so, at the direct expenses of millions of other people across generations who have been systematically exploited and oppressed. America is a place that has given and a place that has taken away. It is the Freedom Bell, and is is the enslaver’s whip. It is manifest destiny, and it is the Tr