Commentary: This has always been our America

“This is not my America,” is a statement I’ve heard so many people say recently, as they watched children being ripped from their parents at the U.S. border. While I wish that statement were true, it is far from it. This is exactly what America is, and what it has been since its inception. I think that before we can move forward from this absolutely disgraceful place that we find ourselves in, we have to take an honest look at the past.As early as 1879, Richard Henry Pratt foun