Michele Norris
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715 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
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It captures my politics as well as anything.
And it's been pretty consistent, this belief in,
an American story that begins with these amazing words, this declaration that we are created equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights and
But it was imperfect and then we struggled to make that ideal real and that has always stood in opposition with a different idea of America that is based on caste and privilege and excluding people and dominating people.
And those two contrasting stories about America, a lot of my speeches, a lot of my politics has been arguing this is the better story.
And so I think it may seem as if right now the story told at the Presidential Center is a response to this particular moment.
But actually, I think it's a response to what has always been there in America.
It's that part of America that says black people don't belong or that says that women need to be in their place and
Gay folks need to be in the closet and poor people need to stop complaining because a handful of people are the ones who are creating the wealth and they deserve to keep it.
And we don't need to take care of the vulnerable and we don't need to make public investments in our kids.
That story's always been there.
And I think sometimes we get confused in thinking that
these two stories are completely separate.
They're intertwined, right?
Which is why it's possible for me to be a great admirer of George Washington and also acknowledge he was a slaveholder.
And that does not negate his greatness.
It simply acknowledges
that there's a profound deep flaw in these founding fathers who were also geniuses and gave us these tools, which is true of all of us, right?
It's true of every president.
We're this mixed bag.
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