“And what about our sins? Slavery was the original sin, and I won’t sand it down. The founders knew it. Jefferson knew it, and he owned slaves — the hypocrisy was staring right at them, and they kept kicking the can down the road. But here is what a poisoned telling of our history leaves out: the New England colonies began rejecting slavery before England itself did. And when the reckoning finally came, hundreds of thousands of men died on battlefields to make other men free. “As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,” read the original lyrics of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. That’s propitiation. One man suffers so others go free. A nation that will bleed that much to right its own wrong is not an evil nation. It is a great one, straining toward becoming a more perfect one. We had a black president. We had a black vice president. Our Secretary of State is the son of Cuban refugees. Anyone telling you the story that nothing here ever gets better is selling you something.”
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I’m grateful for this essay from my friend Representative Tom Suozzi. He is one of the few Democrats who is standing against extremist elements in his own party. May his tribe increase.
@brithume Sorry Brit but Trump doesn’t elect the senate, voters do. The senators have alienated the voters who elected them and the voters are letting them know
@SenThomTillis Wow and I thought govt officials are accountable to the hard working American tax payers. Didn’t realize the fed reserve is an untouchable/unaccountable body. Thanks for the info senator tillis