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Released ahead of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, the book is a critical look back at how the United States has celebrated previous milestone birthdays, including what narratives were left out of the official commemorations. This comes as President Donald Trump has made himself the center of many events and celebrations for the 250th anniversary, while promoting a \u201cstorybook version\u201d of U.S. history that elides the injustice that was baked into the very founding of the country, Glaude tells <em>Democracy Now!<\/em> in a wide-ranging conversation about race, inequality and the legacy of slavery.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=100\">\u201cMAGA Inc.\u201d: CorpWatch on Trump\u2019s World of Tech Titans, Crypto Czars &amp; Prison Profiteers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump and his supporters, they want to be white without judgment,\u201d says Glaude. \u201cHistory is a battleground, because history, of course, holds them to account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=98\">\u201cCriminal Approach to Politics\u201d: Trump Ally Abelardo de la Espriella Wins Colombian Presidency<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI do not love America, and never have, especially now.\u201d Those are the opening words of America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation\u2019s Anniversaries, a new book from Princeton historian Eddie Glaude. Released ahead of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, the book is a critical look back at how the United States has celebrated previous milestone birthdays, including what narratives were left out of the official commemorations. This comes as President Donald Trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donald-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u201cAmerica, U.S.A.\u201d: Eddie Glaude on the 250th Anniv., Race &amp; \u201cThe Madness at the Heart of the Country\u201d - Housing Shift News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=104\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cAmerica, U.S.A.\u201d: Eddie Glaude on the 250th Anniv., Race &amp; \u201cThe Madness at the Heart of the Country\u201d - Housing Shift News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cI do not love America, and never have, especially now.\u201d Those are the opening words of America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation\u2019s Anniversaries, a new book from Princeton historian Eddie Glaude. 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