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      26 days ago

      Still within living memory.

      George Takei was 4 when he and his family were put in a Japanese internment camp. Ruby Bridges, the first black student to attend a white-only school during desegregation, is only 70, currently lives in New Orleans, and is a prominent civil rights activist in the area.

      The US doing anything for the betterment of society was a blip in its overall history, and done in spite of this country and its values, not because of them.