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                                                      July 21, 2020

                                                          TA-NEHISI_COATES


About the Ken Burns' "Civil War" documentary:

  "Burns takes as his narrator Shelby Foote ...
  who presents the Civil War as a kind of big,
  tragic misunderstanding.  'It was because we
  failed to do the thing we really have a genius
  for, which is compromise,' said Foote,
  neglecting to mention the Missouri Compromise,
  the Fugitive Slave Act the Kansas-Nebraska Act,
  and the fact that any further such compromise
  would have meant the continued enslavement
  of black people."

       Ta-Nehisi Coates, "Eight Years in Power" (2017), p76



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