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I can appreciate @StribOpinion running pieces counter to the #1619Project. Honest debate is appreciated. But to dedicate this much real estate while providing no access to the original project seems really, well, trashy. Especially now, nearly four months out.
Also, wonder about the fact-checki g project since some of the things she accuses the project of not doing, it actually does. Which one would know if one actually read it.
Like, it’s amazing to accuse the project of being simplistic and misleading and then going on to summarize 100 years of racial apartheid, terrorism and legally sanctioned subversion of the 13,14,15 amendments in a single sentence about Brown v Board of Education.
Or to write this about James Madison while never saying that he was an enslaved who wrote the 3/5 compromise into the Constitution and did not free the humans he owned even when he died. Or that Franklin opposed both slavery AND black equality.
*enslaver
Or this, which ignores that the Constitution *preserved* the international slave trade until 1808. That slavery vastly expanded after 1808 via the internal trade.That the Civil War was literally about efforts to expand slavery into the West. @StribOpinion, really unconscionable.
Also: Your argument is that we should not be too hard on the colonists because it was just too inconvenient to end the institution of human slavery, legal torture, rape and bondage? Really??
I would love her to answer, then, if that was the case, why didn’t they end slavery as soon as they’d won the war? Or a decade later? Or two decades later? Or three? Or four? Or five? Why were we the third-to-the-last in the Americas to end slavery? And only after a war?
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