Sherrilyn Ifill

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121 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 4 Jul

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The Rachel Maddow Show · We the People America 250: Country at a Crossroads - Part 2 · 4 Jul 2026 podcast

It's immature.

It's silly.

It doesn't serve us in any way.

It doesn't teach us anything.

The story of this country is not a story written about one day and one war.

The story is about an incredibly imperfect country with a very high vision of what it could be.

falling short of the mark, like right from the beginning.

Because you talked about the Declaration, and we must talk about the Preamble.

We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.

Wow, that is like right up there.

That is huge.

That is important.

And then we get a Constitution in 1789 that says we're going to count enslaved people as three-fifths of a person.

And we're going to allow the United States to continue to participate in the international slave trade until 1808.

So we start right out falling short of the mark.

And all of those compromises in that first constitution are what kind of lead us to the Civil War, which you and Ali were talking about, and the Reconstruction period.

So it's a place of imperfection and a constant striving to be better.

And that's why I'm so enamored of the Reconstruction period, because here we are with a country that is broken in half, literally.

We've gone through this terrible war.

600,000 Americans have been killed in this war, the most of any war that we've participated in in this country.

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