original sin

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The projects never were built, but many Latinos considered the destruction of the neighborhoods and removal of the residents as something of the Dodgers’ original sin and vowed never to set foot inside Dodger Stadium.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025

“Parade” understands that America’s original sin — slavery and the economic apparatus that sanctioned the dehumanization of groups deemed as “other” — can’t be divorced from Leo’s story.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2025

You may recognize its reference to what’s been called the nation’s original sin and its primacy in 1932 Clarksdale, Mississippi, where the story takes place.

From Salon • May 2, 2025

So then—can an inanimate tool such as this typewriter be penitent, reformed, and redeemed from the original sin of its creation?

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2024

This original sin against my family told whenever anyone addressed me in Spanish and I responded, confounded.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez