That’s easy for you to say if you identify with the North and have no problem with the way history has portrayed the American South.
Some of us do have a problem with it, and welcome an essay that exposes many of the worst stereotypes. Slavery is an abomination and there’s no excusing it - but why not have an honest history? Why not put America’s role in it in its proper perspective?
And why put the word “facts” in quotes? If you doubt something he says is true, why not challenge it directly?
You take it so personally. Did you own slaves?
Stop living a century ago.