Lincoln
"He sees a German he knows well in the crowd … he says: "
‘This is the day that we celebrate the founders and those who are descended from the founders.
But even though all of you
are not the blood
of the blood
of that generation,
the Declaration [of Independence]
says that you are
like
the blood of the blood of the founders.
And that’s the electric cord
that runs through the Declaration of Independence.
"I love the phrase ‘electric cord’.
How can you read that and not think Lincoln says naturalised Americans and refugees are the blood of our blood because they want liberty and they want to be here, as opposed to poisoning the blood of America?"
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' I try every once in a while to remind myself and readers that for example, the welcoming spirit of progressive people in the Lincoln era … is happening at the same time
Indigenous people are being removed and contained"
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