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WHEN WAS AMERICA GREAT?

When Native Americans were slaughtered?

When Africans were enslaved?

When Blacks were denied the right to vote, segregated, and lynched?

During the Jim Crow era?

When Black cities were being destroyed?

When civil rights leaders were assassinated? 1/3
WHEN WAS AMERICA GREAT?

When the KKK rose to fight integration?

When bigots threatened Black children to stop school desegregation?

When youth were sent to die in countless wars?

During McCarthyism?

During the war on drugs & mass incarceration?

When women couldn’t vote? 2/3
WHEN WAS AMERICA GREAT?

When land was stolen from nonwhites?

When people were burned at the stake?

When white preachers taught that Blacks were cursed by God?

When freed Blacks had to work as sharecroppers?

When grown blacks had to answer to “boy” & “girl from whites?”

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