Presidential Visits to Yad Vashem

Misrepresentation and Misrecognition, yet again (Part One)

You will by now have seen one report or another contrasting the responses of Presidents Obama (who visited as a senator and presidential candidate) and Trump to Yad Vashem, the Israeli national museum and memorial dedicated to the victims of the Nazi Genocide, the survivors of that crime, and the ...
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Presidential Visits to Yad Vashem

(Not) Coming to Terms with the Past

Race, Injustice and Social Policy in “Postracial” America

A week later, on March 6th, Ben Carson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), waded into similarly troubled waters when he claimed -- in an address to HUD employees -- “That’s what America is about. A land of dreams and opportunity. There were other immigrants who came here in ...
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