The question to me is if we represent America and its history. Are you responsible for the choices made by others in the past, present, and future? I'm more of the mindset that each person should identify as an individual rather than lumped into the whole.
Once this is realized, the narrative that we are guilty for the evils and irregularities of others collapses. Suddenly, you hold nothing in common with the bad actors who so often come to represent us as a nation. History has been inaccurately represented in order to displace blame away from those who are responsible.
We are their scapegoat.
We are not the totality of offenses of others from the past. We are individuals who will make our own reputation despite what you've been told.
Once this is realized, the narrative that we are guilty for the evils and irregularities of others collapses. Suddenly, you hold nothing in common with the bad actors who so often come to represent us as a nation. History has been inaccurately represented in order to displace blame away from those who are responsible.
We are their scapegoat.
We are not the totality of offenses of others from the past. We are individuals who will make our own reputation despite what you've been told.