“But what is particular to America is that many who suffered enormous loss and destruction have had to do so alone, had to marshal language to tell the story, only to find that there was no one to hear it because their suffering contradicts the story that the nation keeps telling itself—the story of American exceptionalism. America is a beacon of light, the singular enforcer of truth. Our story of exceptionalism doesn’t allow us to confront our past with open eyes. A nation that cannot see its own past cannot see the suffering it has caused, suffering that persists into the present.” SufferingExceptionalismContradictsConfront Past Book:See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love Source: See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love