article_snippet.sent: By now you may be asking, "Who's We?
article_snippet.sent: The word "we" is one of the great American words.
article_snippet.sent: I use "We" a lot when I talk about We country's achievements.
article_snippet.sent: I like to say We won the Second World War
article_snippet.sent: , We put a man on the moon, We invented the Internet, We gave the world jazz.
article_snippet.sent: Well, if I -- a son of immigrants whose family had nothing to do with any of those accomplishments -- if I get to claim those aspects of American history, then surely I have to claim the unsavory aspects too.
article_snippet.sent: But there's another dimension of the story of "we" that matters as well.
article_snippet.sent: It is an abomination.
article_snippet.sent: we should all be able to say that.
article_snippet.sent: And there is no other "we" waiting in the wings.