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Marc Lamont Hill Calls ‘The Myth Of The Self-Made Person’ a Lie

“The greatest lie in American history is the myth of the self-made person,” Marc Lamont Hill says. “Nobody makes themselves. We’re all shaped by communities, by people who struggled and sacrificed for us, by governments that offer safety nets. And what Ben Carson is able to do essentially is reject all that stuff and say that I was saved.”