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Three Words to Break a Nation: Revisiting Wendell Berry’s “Hidden Wound”
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Kirk Swearingen
Sep 26, 2021
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Half a century ago, Wendell Berry wrote of growing up in rural Kentucky and articulated the “mirror wound” that white people suffer due to our history of racism.

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