Clint Smith quote ✍️

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Young people are constantly absorbing - through media, textbooks, and policy - the myths of American exceptionalism; for black children, this means that what they are taught in class does not match the world that they navigate daily.
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E
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N
Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
EEN
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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