Summary Of Joshua Rothman's Americ The Redeeer Nation

Joshua Rothman begins his article, “America: The Redeemer Nation” by bringing up the story that the Civil Rights Movement have been inspired by which is the Americans escape injustice that we all celebrated but now we don’t follow up to that story. There are some opposing views to this for example. There are people who do believe we still live up to that story, but on the contrary, there are still people who refrain themselves to believe this is the land of the free. Rothman continues his article by listing different types of narratives like the multicultural narrative which is mostly taught at school that claims America is separated in two different groups and ranks and each of them is expressed by the power they have suffered. The other narrative is called the …show more content…
Rothman brings up the past after World War 1 and how we rebuild friendships or more like allies if we are talking about other countries. America isn’t like many other countries, this nation has a tendency for fresh starts therefore many people come here for new beginnings in their lives. The whole history of America was just conflicts that were later healed. He, Joshua Rothman, listed a huge important example which is Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural. This speech is “great moral humility” because Lincoln said it was an “American institution” thus it means that he is letting the sides share the consequences instead of one side. Lincoln had this speech to reconcile the sides by using the words like “we” to show we are all in this together. Lincoln wanted forgiveness that makes it worth that could rebuild the trust that could have been lost. He tried to unite the nation when it was separated and that we could only trust in God that we are doing the right thing. The article ends with saying how specific details of our history and culture point directs to joining of all the human