Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. ✨ Harvard profes…

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Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. ✨ Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. March 19, 2008.
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