Commentary: Why the media are still failing Americans as we lurch toward Nov. 8
“Wake up, America! Wake up!” John Lewis shouted at the 1963 March on Washington. That message is even more needed today, in the final stages of the most critical election for the survival of the American experiment since 1864. What was at stake then, during the war to put down the enslavers’ rebellion, was, as Lincoln had said two years earlier, whether “we shall nobly save, or meanly lose, ...
by Robert S. McElvaine, Los Angeles Times
Nov 05, 2022
3 minutes
“Wake up, America! Wake up!” John Lewis shouted at the 1963 March on Washington.
That message is even more needed today, in the final stages of the most critical election for the survival of the American experiment since 1864. What was at stake then, during the war to put down the enslavers’ rebellion, was, as Lincoln had said two years earlier, whether “we shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of Earth.”
Those words
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