It's the Identities, Stupid: Our Civic Responsibility to Engage
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Were these people Heroes? Or were they just normal people, in some cases just doing their jobs? Abraham Lincoln February 12, — April 15, was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March until his assassination in April Lincoln led the United States through its greatest constitutional, military, and moral crises—the American Civil War—preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, strengthening the national government and modernizing the economy. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator during the s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives during the s. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela born 18 July is a South African politician who was the President of South Africa from to , the first ever to be elected in a fully representative and multi-racial election. His administration focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid, as well as tackling racism, poverty and inequality.
Surely not. Kessler is a white male canary in the coal mine, reflecting a government struggling with a rhetorical duty to its citizens, and citizens struggling with a duty to each other. In each of these examples, as with Kessler, Americans are struggling with the meaning s of an identity they hold near and dear. As Americans reassess the symbolic meanings of various politically-charged identities—their own as well as others—their struggles burst on to the public stage in uncomfortable ways. It requires these rhetorical behaviors just as surely as it requires us to vote, or submit testimony about legislation, or serve on juries.
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