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Trump's 1776 Report Shows What Kind of "Unity" the GOP Wants

Erasing the reality of our troubled history — and our divided present — is not true unity.

Back in early September of 2020, when fewer than 200,000 Americans had yet died as a result of COVID-19, reality TV "businessman" Donald Trump was somehow the president of an entire country.

And he wanted everyone to "love" that country as much — and as selectively — as he did. So when Nikole Hannah-Jones' 1619 Project with The New York Times began winning awards and being taught in classrooms, he knew he had to act.

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Nike's "Betsy Ross Flag" Shoes Lost 500 Jobs Because Colin Kaepernick Knows History

How is a sportswear company a useful (or even relevant) arbiter of what a deeply fraught political symbol means?

Colin Kaepernick, Eric Reid San Francisco 49ers'

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Nike, Inc. is the latest company to challenge our understanding of how to use historical imagery in today's political climate without being blindly offensive or willfully ignorant of American history.

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