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Posted on 07/17/2020 8:51:19 AM PDT by bitt
During a speech on Thursday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated that America was far from perfect at its founding, but Americas founding principles gave us a standard by which we could see the gravity of our failings and criticized the New York Times 1619 Project for arguing that Americas institutions continue to reflect the countrys acceptance of slavery at our founding. Pompeo stated that the Chinese Communist Party must be gleeful when they read these arguments, and that rioters have taken these false doctrines to heart and thus see nothing wrong with desecrating monuments to those who fought for our unalienable rights, from our founding to the present day.
Pompeo said, America is fundamentally good and has much to offer the world. Because our founders recognized the existence of God-given, unalienable rights, and designed a durable system to protect them. But I must say, these days, even saying that America is fundamentally good has become controversial.
He added, Now, its true that, [at] our nations founding, our country fell far short of securing the rights of all. The evil institution of slavery was our nations gravest departure from these founding principles. We expelled Native Americans from their ancestral lands. And our foreign policy, too, has not always comported with the idea of sovereignty embedded in the core of our founding.
Pompeo continued, But crucially, crucially the nations founding principles gave us a standard by which we could see the gravity of our failings and a political framework that gave us the tools to ultimately abolish slavery and enshrine into law equality without regard to race. You dont always hear these ground truths today.
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The rioters destroying the Statutes do not believe in anything. They were just doing as they were told.
Great Speech and post! Thank you!
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