Leonard Pitts Jr.: Why can’t we have nice things?
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
May 05, 2021
2 minutes
Its Constitution fixed the value of African Americans at three-fifths that of other humans.
Its bloodiest war was over whether they should be enslaved.
It has no institution — not one — that is free of racial discrimination.
Yet, we are supposed to take seriously those who now ask if America is a racist country? It seems to have obsessed many of us,
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