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==Anti-Americanism==
==Anti-Americanism==
Among some prominent leaders promoting "racial justice", the idea of racism can be used to promote a much larger narrative, and even cloak a viewpoint that may or may not actually care about racial injustices but is decidedly anti-American. [[Thomas Sowell]] points out in his ''Reader'':<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=hxmQ2W-yGiwC&pg=PA19 The Thomas Sowell Reader]</ref>
Among some prominent leaders promoting "racial justice", the idea of racism can be used to promote a much larger [[narrative]], and even cloak a viewpoint that may or may not actually care about racial injustices but is decidedly anti-American. [[Thomas Sowell]] points out in his ''Reader'':<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=hxmQ2W-yGiwC&pg=PA19 The Thomas Sowell Reader]</ref>
:Of all the tragic facts about the history of slavery, the most astonishing to an American today is that, although slavery was a worldwide institution for thousands of years, nowhere in the world was slavery a controversial issue prior to the 18th century. People of every race and color were enslaved – and enslaved others. White people were still being bought and sold as slaves in the Ottoman Empire, decades after American blacks were freed.
:Of all the tragic facts about the history of slavery, the most astonishing to an American today is that, although slavery was a worldwide institution for thousands of years, nowhere in the world was slavery a controversial issue prior to the 18th century. People of every race and color were enslaved – and enslaved others. White people were still being bought and sold as slaves in the Ottoman Empire, decades after American blacks were freed.