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?
I would like a gas-tight defense of why George Washington did not free his slaves.
Please provide.