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It feels strange to agree with Kamiya
After he's gotten so much wrong on race before. But he nailed this one. Wright's sentiments are widespread in Black America, and nobody, not even Obama was inclined to ask when the ordinary wisdom of an eighth the population became off limits, excluded from the nation's political discourse.
We can't even publicly say that taking land and lives from the Native Americans was an act of genocide. When Native Americans campaigned and complained that the word "holucaust" should be inserted into the name of the Native American Museum on the mall, we declined and dismissed them.