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Joe Offer BS:Statues-Are we any better than ISIS or al-Qaeda (147* d) RE: BS:Statues-Are we any better than ISIS or al-Qaeda 26 Aug 17

Steve Shaw: 👍

It's not a matter of rewriting history. We need to acknowledge the misdeeds of our history and correct them instead of promoting and prolonging them. The March 6 2017 issue of the Jesuit America Magazine (page 6) quotes a man named Michael Lando of Brooklyn, answering the question, "Is America great" in response to the Trump slogan:

    America is not great, but has the potential to be...We have never come to terms with our history: the genocide of native people, slavery, Jim Crow, the mistreatment of immigrants, the second-class status of women, and so on.

In response to the question "Is America Great?" America Magazine readers who responded to the poll said:
  • Yes (46%)
  • No (6%)
  • It's Complicated (48%)
Readers said what makes America great are democratic institutions, freedom, immigrants & diversity, and equal opportunity.

I'd say that America is the preferred publication of U.S. Catholic intellectuals. Almost all readers (yes, no, and complicated) have a different idea of "making America great" from that of Donald Trump.

-Joe-

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