There were lots of good reasons why the issue of Genocide recognition would be the thing that would first fire me up as an activist. Some of those reasons were certainly personal, but initially, it wasn’t really the facts of the Genocide or even my family’s tale of surviving it that spurred me to want to do something to ensure it wasn’t ignored. It was the hypocrisy. In school, I’d learn all about American history—or, as someone like Howard Zinn might point out, a whitewashed version of it—with its nods to high-minded ideals like liberty and justice for all. I’d watch the news and hear then
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