WHICH AMERICAN LIFE?
If one does not acknowledge the dangerous aspect of the past,one does nothing.
by Andrew Christie, AlterNet

The Cherokee were ousted from their land and annihilated by people who did it because they could, because they had power over their victims. Vowell did not connect the events she was tracing to instances in the present day where this same mechanism can be observed at work. This would take matters out of the realm of the past and the personal.
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