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Among many challenges, the Biden administration will need to tackle hunger and homelessness, says LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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TWO days before its welcome end, the Trump regime’s “1776 Commission” released a new report, designed, said a White House statement, to counter efforts “to reframe American history around the idea that the United States is not an exceptional country but an evil one.”

With consistent insensitivity, it chose Martin Luther King Jr Day to disseminate its “patriotic education curriculum,” which, among other things, justified the hypocrisy of the founding fathers for holding slaves while criticising the institution of slavery.

It also took a pointed shot at Marxism which it described as a “radical rejection of human dignity.”

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