“And yet we must reckon with the racist legacy of John James Audubon, the man.”
“.. racist legacy” - yet another judgement of a historical figure using current ideology - how stupid. No indication of the context regarding Audubon’s slave-holding time. Did he inherit slaves? Were they a gift? Did he ever free them? How does the time he shared with black folks in his life have anything to do with his actual legacy?
Leftists are really fooked in the head ...
The correct term which modern professional and reputable historians use for this supposed “reckoning” of past cultural norms to current ideology— the term is presentism.
This was presented in the original answer by major groups of proper credentialed historians to the “1619 Project” hoax “history” created by Hannah Jones at the NYTimes who could NOT get a professorship in North Carolina as a result and now she is at Howard University in DC. Yeah, Howard. uh huh.