Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100803:02:20:00
Sense of a nation, it was a unified nation. >> was it highly politicized back then? some are arguing, you're demagoguing against chinese because of politics? >> the majority wanted to get race out of the definition of citizenship, they felt this was a legacy of slavery to limit one race or another race. they wanted to go to this universal notion of who can be an american. to be an american is not to be a member of a particular race, a particular people, a particular religion, it's to accept the principles of american government, of democracy of liberty, and anybody can two that. and the childr...