Read The 1776 Report! (While you can)

It was immediately removed from the White House Website on Jan 20 when Ol’ JoKe abolished the commission set up by Trump , our last American president. And it was widely trashed and disparaged by any MSM source which wrote about or discussed it. And when I began reading it this morning (there’s a link to it on American Greatness) I was at first struck by a…defensive tone in the introduction. But that’s inevitable: the bold and spurious claim that the US was founded to perpetuate African slavery is Out There, via the infamous, discredited 1619 Project. It’s out, and there it lies (in both senses of that verb).

I was going to make a particular plea to our international readers to study this report. But I believe YOU already understand the truth if it, don’t you? You wouldn’t be interested in this site at all if you did not see the US as unique among the nations, as something to aspire to, as a force for good in the world. Those who are well need not a physician, but those who are sick. And I’m sorry to tell you that America is sick. And I don’t mean with Covid. I hope we can recover, but the fever hasn’t broken yet.

The 1776 report is only 20 pages, spaciously laid out, so there no reason not to peruse it. It is wide-ranging but at its core is , necessarily, refutation of the lie of the 1619 Project.

Hey kids: African slavery was not invented by the US! Did ya KNOW that, kiddies? The African were brought here by the now so high’n’mighty and sanctimonious English, Dutch, French and Spanish. Yuh! And the French brought over 4 times S many Africans to their colonies in the New World as the English did. In terms of intensity, duration, and sheer numbers, the US is NOT the most culpable among the nations of the world in connection with the awful practice of African slavery: WE ARE THE LEAST CULPABLE.

What follows isn’t from the 1776 Report, but from my own standard rant, my “stump speech”, if you will:

Intensity: : the Africans were treated relatively better here, witness the fact that they bred, which in French Haiti, for instance, they did not do; They tumbled off the boats and under the lash and were worked to death, which is why M. and Mme. needed so many of ‘em. (And no, I am NOT saying that merely being enslaved wasn’t bad enough in se. nor am I denying the human horror of the auction blocks. But there are differences of degree and they are never insignificant.)

Sheer numbers: I already told you about the French’s far greater number of Africans imported. And are you under the impression that the US is the largest slave nation that ever existed? Guess again, that’d be Portugal’s former colony, Brazil. Also in the numbers category, there is the much longer period of time, 200 years approximately, during which the nations of the world traded in African selves before the US was born. The longer the practice went on ,the more slaves, obviously.

Duration: the US abolished the slave trade 32 years after we became a nation, and fought a bloody civil war to abolish the practice about fifty years later, (less than 90 years after we became a nation): in which more people died on the Union side, and more whites died than blacks.

Back to the 1776 Report, , it doesn’t skip over what happened next in the former slave states. Lemme ask ya, didja ever hear of a slave being lynched? No, that happened to free blacks, along with other official and unofficial state and local activities directed at preventing them from entering full citizenhood. Oh but the federal government of our country just blithely tolerated this, right? Wrong! It adopted the 14th Amendment (which had been proposed in 1866) in 1868, with the specific purpose of safeguarding the rights of former slaves and their descendants.

At the core of the 1776 Report is the distinction between Human rights and group rights aka identity politics. We are niw seeing a war played out on that battleground.

By abolishing the commission and obliterating its report, Ol’JoKe has torn down the banner of our founders, that of a nation “conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”.

That was an act of war. And to borrow from Lincoln again, it is a war “testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.”

God send the right.