There sure are; because the word “racist” has been weaponized.
We must all now say in unison, even with internet anonymity, that we “denounce racism in the strongest possible terms.”
It hasn't always been that way. As recently as 1977(?) after calling President Ford a racist, civil rights leader Andrew Young said he didn't mean Ford wasn't a good person. When questioned in Congress Young even admitted that he (Young himself) was racist, but that no, that did not disqualify him from becoming United Nations ambassador.
The label racist has become a deadly and valuable poison; it will probably soon be administered for the purpose of destroying the Washington Monument.
Most, if not all, Americans sincerely prefer that Africans were not brought to this country as slaves.
We prefer that Joseph was not sold into slavery by his brothers.
We prefer than Adam had not sinned in the Garden.
But our preferences do not change historical reality. And the reality is that 13 of the original states were slave states. And of those 13, 13 of them voted to enshrine slavery into the United States Constitution.
That does not mean the good northern states loved slavery; they didn't. The only reason they voted slavery into the Constitution was because it was considered to be in their own economic and political best self-interest.
I do not fault you for wanting to run away from the liberal charge that America is disqualified because of a history of “racism.” But blame shifting to the British empire doesn't seem like a winning strategy considering what was being done with slaves in the colonies, later states, before the Revolutionary War, during the war, and after the war.
And even if you successfully flee the racism charge, the liberal cavalry is going to be hot on your trail with slashing attacks that you are paternalistic, nationalistic, monotheistic, monogamistic, and a homophobic running-dog capitalist.
Do you have a plan to deny all that bad stuff too?
Orwell wrote about The Endless Present, you appear to be stuck there. Others can waste their time with such idiotic denunciations, not me. Just as there is no spoon, there is nothing to apologize for. That's party mythology, far too many people gawk at it.
My goal is to highlight how badly the schools teach, on purpose, to leave us all sitting ducks for this racialized agenda. There could be an education with this high a quality as with shown in this book and others with this many footnotes, but the schools choose not to do it. Homeschoolers will find a lot of use for this material. The government schools however choose a different path on purpose, it is no doubt by design. The schools are simply lying because it serves a political end and modern historians are in on the scheme. Other useful works along this same line are these:
The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution
The founders were correct. Why wouldn't I leverage it to the utmost? Why don't you want to leverage it? Perhaps everybody around you is poisoned and you have nobody you can talk to - many of us do live in such areas where even the churches are corrupted with wokeness.
"It hasn't always been that way."
Yeah, I know, walked to school up-hill both ways. I've heard it all.
You need to recognize that we are here because the progressives have put us here over the last 120 years. There's only one way to get out of this situation and it isn't to whine about how it was in days gone by. Time to walk up yet another hill, yes, it will be walking up-hill both ways again.
"But our preferences do not change historical reality."
You do not appear to know what that reality actually is beyond useless generalities. It's not a surprise you find it hard to defend it the defendable. Our Founders are eminently defendable on the issue of slavery, there's no reason to lose this argument having the proper training that the schools did not provide. The founders were certainly not a product of their times - not all of them. They were ahead of their time, the evidence could not be more clear. To put this another way, your preference to go out of your way to NOT defend our Founders is becoming very obvious.
What else do you need to defend our Founders? You let me know, I'll provide it.
Pining for the "good ol' days" is the lazy way out, maybe a little fun. It's 100% useless though. How much time do you have left to simply waste?