A duck swims over algae at the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which has been painted blue at the directive of U.S. President Donald Trump, ahead of the 250th anniversary of U.S. Independence, in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 14, 2026. REUTERS/Eric Lee
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Great explainer: The US has football culture, it's just organized across different sports in different regions, ie Texas & southeastern football, mid-Atlantic lacrosse, New England hockey, midwest wrestling. Places where community investment created a low(er) barrier to entry.
That is what Judge Kelley is getting at in the passage Scott quoted. A shared national identity is not built on a flawless history. It is built on a shared willingness to confront the actual history.
Without that shared willingness, we are just tribes at war with one
Anyone who thinks that’s too woke, doesn’t understand the concept of duty.
I stand on the shoulders of people who owned people, what is my debt?—at the very least, it’s to tell the truth.
Ben Wikler knows what he’s talking about. Read this.
My State Was a ‘Democracy Desert.’ This Is How We Turned It Around. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...
We tell the truth about slavery, Indian removal, segregation, exclusion, discrimination, and other failures not because Americans today are personally guilty for everything their ancestors did, but because a republic cannot learn from experiences it refuses to remember.
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Workers attempt to clean algae out of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which has been painted blue at the direction of U.S. President Donald Trump, in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 14, 2026. REUTERS/Eric Lee
