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Colbert: The American Dream Was ‘Never for Everybody,’ ‘It Was for White Landowning Men Originally’

‘And it’s only through idealism that it’s expanded’

EXCERPT:

COLBERT: "But the idealism, you still have the idealism, I guess, is what I’m asking."
LEGUIZAMO: "The idealism? I mean — "
COLBERT: "I will tell you why I ask. You say that the American dream hasn’t always been of everybody. It never was always for everybody. It was for white landowning men originally. And it’s only through idealism that it’s expanded."

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