> One it has never truly confronted in any lasting manner. I mean, the US has come a long way from chattel slavery, Jim Crow laws, Chinese exclusion acts, Iris

> One it has never truly confronted in any lasting manner. I mean, the US has come a long way from chattel slavery, Jim Crow laws, Chinese exclusion acts, Irish exclusion, Italian exclusion, Catholics, etc. It did recently have a black president. Yes it has a very long way to go, but there has been a lot of progress in it's history.