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None of us are super, but we are the Americans, unique in our willingness to admit that when it comes to our race, we are all but human.
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The speaker says Americans are not “super” or above ordinary people. Instead, they are presented as distinctive because they are willing to admit a serious failure connected to race: that, in this area, they have fallen short of basic humanity. “All but human” is a stark, paradoxical way to describe that moral failure.
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- Harvard University Commencement Remarks from Tom Hanks
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- Official Statement
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