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Two comments about this article:

1) This is a great article, because it straightens out a lot of the historical lies and selectivity practiced by the Left, in its attempt to destroy this country.

2) The article, inadvertently, plays into the hands of the Left by responding to what the 1619 Project states. IOW, it let’s them decide the arena in which we’re arguing, and decide what the terms are that everyone can use.

The simple fact is that slavery has been over with for more than 150 years. No one alive today (with perhaps a couple dozen exceptions) even had a grandparent who was a slave (and that as an infant, when they wouldn’t have even been aware of it). No one alive today even came close to experiencing slavery legally in this country...and, conversely, no one alive today even came close to enslaving another person legally in this country. We hear ALL THE TIME about how the Dreamers and other children who crossed the border cannot be held responsible for the wrongdoing of their parents - but, somehow, everyone alive today can be held responsible for events that occurred decades or more before our grandparents were born? What complete hypocrisy!

There is no nation that has ever existed which has been perfect, nor will there ever be one. That is undeniable by anyone. But that is not really the question that should be addressed. The question to focus on is this: What can we do to CONTINUE to improve our nation in terms of ending discrimination based upon utterly irrelevant characteristics like one’s race, religion, gender, etc.? Because, and this MUST be pointed out by us REPEATEDLY, this country has probably done more over the course of its existence to eliminate suffering and injustice than any other single nation. No, we’re not perfect - but that is an unattainable thing. What we are is the least imperfect of all of the nations on this planet. People flock here by the millions - would they (and especially those from what are minority groups here) come if we were actively practicing slavery, or if we had Jim Crow laws on the books and being enforced?

This country, the one our ancestors (literal or, in my case, ideological) created starting in 1776, has done more good than any other in the time since than any other nation, precisely BECAUSE we broke away from the English system and English rule. We created a NEW nation, unfettered by the attitudes of the Old World, so it is a complete fallacy (and a purposeful one, at that) to ascribe pre-1776 mistakes to the nation born in that year. Yes, we made mistakes along the way, sometimes bad mistakes - but we’ve addressed them all and learned the lessons so that we (hopefully) won’t repeat them. Other nations have followed our lead in many regards, to our credit.

The 1619 Project, like virtually everything else that the Left does, aims at changing the terms of the debate. If we buy into that, then we’ve lost before we even begin. They want to discredit every single thing that we’ve done for the past 243 years, by concentrating on what was done before we had control over our own destiny, and then blame people who weren’t alive then (or, in many cases including mine, people whose ancestors weren’t even here then) for all of the problems and injustices of the past (and, of course, judge them and us by today’s standards and not those of the time). We simply cannot allow them to get away with that kind of manipulative behavior. All that they do is to tear down - nothing they suggest even hints at creating improvements, for the simple reason that they are ONLY interested in controlling this nation by demoralizing its people to the point where we have nothing left for which to fight.