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Part of our evolution involves healing our deadly unconscious connection between brute force and excitement.\u201d\n\nFrom Healing the Soul of America", "display_url": "pic.twitter.com/EZmFnSgFFM", "expanded_url": "https://twitter.com/marwilliamson/status/1447640078960918531/photo/1", "media_url_https": "https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBcM-laVIAA7RPY.jpg"}], "symbols": [], "hashtags": [], "user_mentions": []}, "full_text": "When I published my book \u201cHealing the Soul of America\u201d in 1998, I wrote about repealing Columbus Day and instead honoring the indigenous peoples who had lived here long before he came. https://t.co/EZmFnSgFFM", "extended_entities": {"media": [{"id": 1447640074561077248, "url": "https://t.co/EZmFnSgFFM", "type": "photo", "sizes": {"large": {"h": 1080, "w": 1080, "resize": "fit"}, "small": {"h": 680, "w": 680, "resize": "fit"}, "thumb": {"h": 150, "w": 150, "resize": "crop"}, "medium": {"h": 1080, "w": 1080, "resize": "fit"}}, "id_str": "1447640074561077248", "indices": [185, 208], "media_url": "http://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBcM-lbVQAA0-Y7.jpg", "description": "\u201cGiven the fact that Columbus\u2019s life was a model for the standard of enslavement and killing that came to characterize much of European settlement in the New World, to honor him stunts the collective psyche of the nation that we are so dishonest about our history.\n\n\u201cIn 1992, at the time of the quincentennial celebration of his \u201cdiscovery\u201d of America, there was a national rethinking of Columbus\u2019s appropriate place in history.\u201d\n\nFrom Healing the Soul of America", "display_url": "pic.twitter.com/EZmFnSgFFM", "expanded_url": "https://twitter.com/marwilliamson/status/1447640078960918531/photo/1", "media_url_https": "https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBcM-lbVQAA0-Y7.jpg"}, {"id": 1447640074556874752, "url": "https://t.co/EZmFnSgFFM", "type": "photo", "sizes": {"large": {"h": 1080, "w": 1080, "resize": "fit"}, "small": {"h": 680, "w": 680, "resize": "fit"}, "thumb": {"h": 150, "w": 150, "resize": "crop"}, "medium": {"h": 1080, "w": 1080, "resize": "fit"}}, "id_str": "1447640074556874752", "indices": [185, 208], "media_url": "http://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBcM-laVIAA7RPY.jpg", "description": "\u201cDemythologizing this figure, removing him (or her) from the pedestal in our imagination will help free us from his dominion. 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