"Our Democracy" Reflection by Hannah Port https://padlet.com/hport3/l3q75eab49prjzno Find the sentence from “Our democracy” that you found most powerful→ copy and paste it into the padlet and explain why en-us 2020-09-27 21:21:25 UTC 2020-09-29 13:13:43 UTC hello@padlet.com "We were told once, by virtue of our bondage, that we could never be American. But it was by virtue of our bondage that we became the most American of all." https://padlet.com/hport3/l3q75eab49prjzno/wish/787641595 2020-09-29 13:09:57 UTC https://padlet.com/hport3/l3q75eab49prjzno/wish/787641595 adrianaalcindor https://padlet.com/hport3/l3q75eab49prjzno/wish/787641898 “Out of the ashes of white denigration, we gave birth to ourselves.”]]> 2020-09-29 13:10:02 UTC https://padlet.com/hport3/l3q75eab49prjzno/wish/787641898 "But crucially, you cannot view those statistics while ignoring another: that black people were enslaved here longer than we have been free." gaellepierre https://padlet.com/hport3/l3q75eab49prjzno/wish/787642685 This was a powerful quote because it plays devil's advocate to America's purpose of freedom and shows how it affects African-Americans today.]]> 2020-09-29 13:10:13 UTC https://padlet.com/hport3/l3q75eab49prjzno/wish/787642685 raianavass https://padlet.com/hport3/l3q75eab49prjzno/wish/787642902 "How could this black man, having seen firsthand the way his country abused black Americans, how it refused to treat us as full citizens, proudly fly its banner?"

]]> 2020-09-29 13:10:16 UTC https://padlet.com/hport3/l3q75eab49prjzno/wish/787642902 https://padlet.com/hport3/l3q75eab49prjzno/wish/787643576 "Like all the black men and women in my family, he believed in hard work, but like all the black men and women in my family, no matter how hard he worked, he never got ahead."

]]> 2020-09-29 13:10:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hport3/l3q75eab49prjzno/wish/787643576 myagrady https://padlet.com/hport3/l3q75eab49prjzno/wish/787646662 "We were told once, by virtue of our bondage, that we could never be American. But it was by virtue of our bondage that we became the most American of all."]]> 2020-09-29 13:11:09 UTC https://padlet.com/hport3/l3q75eab49prjzno/wish/787646662 https://padlet.com/hport3/l3q75eab49prjzno/wish/787651138 2020-09-29 13:12:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hport3/l3q75eab49prjzno/wish/787651138 For this fleeting moment known as Reconstruction, the majority in Congress seemed to embrace the idea that out of the ashes of the Civil War, we could create the multiracial democracy that black Americans envisioned even if our founding fathers did not. https://padlet.com/hport3/l3q75eab49prjzno/wish/787651759 This was powerful because it shows two different perspectives of dreams for the future of America.]]> 2020-09-29 13:12:16 UTC https://padlet.com/hport3/l3q75eab49prjzno/wish/787651759 https://padlet.com/hport3/l3q75eab49prjzno/wish/787652174 2020-09-29 13:12:22 UTC https://padlet.com/hport3/l3q75eab49prjzno/wish/787652174 https://padlet.com/hport3/l3q75eab49prjzno/wish/787655986 "We were told once, by virtue of our bondage, that we could never be American. But it was by virtue of our bondage that we became the most American of all."


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