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America deserves the truth about slavery — not a politicized, one-sided sermon that paints our entire nation as uniquely evil. The left’s latest history crusade, epitomized by projects that reframe 1619 as the founding moment of America’s moral identity, is less about educating citizens and more about fueling guilt and division.
Make no mistake: slavery was a monstrous practice, a stain on human history that must be condemned without equivocation. But it is also a universal human atrocity that existed in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe long before the Atlantic slave trade, and honest history must acknowledge that global context rather than pretending slavery was some exclusively Western original sin. Conservative commentators and scholars have been right to push back when activists erase centuries of broader history for political gain.
Those who want to weaponize the past against America ignore the brave men and women who led the movement to end bondage: abolitionists across the Atlantic world and the lawmakers who enacted emancipation. Britain’s Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 and the United States’ 13th Amendment in 1865 are landmarks showing Western nations ultimately turned conscience into action and outlawed slavery through law. It’s patriotic to honor those achievements while also confronting the injustices that preceded them.
The left’s insistence on teaching a truncated, grievance-centered version of history serves a political purpose: it strengthens identity politics and weakens national cohesion. Projects that recenter America’s founding around slavery alone do a disservice to students by denying them the full, complicated story — including the role abolition played and the moral progress our republic made despite its flaws. We should teach the good and the bad, not weaponize selective history to manufacture shame.
That same dishonest framing fuels calls for reparations and collective guilt that would punish taxpayers today for wrongs committed generations ago. Conservatives understand that while historical injustice demands remembrance and remedies in policy where appropriate, blanket guilt payments and racial scapegoating are not the path to healing; family structure, education, entrepreneurship, and law and order are. We must reject simplistic solutions that treat Americans as mere vessels of historical sin.
If conservatives are going to win the culture war over history, we must do so by insisting schools teach full, evidence-based history and by celebrating the progress that followed emancipation — including constitutional protections and civil rights advances. The 13th Amendment’s ratification in 1865 and the long, painful Reconstruction that followed are part of the record; students deserve facts, not propaganda. A confident nation faces its past without letting ideologues rewrite it to serve a political agenda.
Patriotic Americans should demand curricula that build pride in our shared civic inheritance while honestly confronting past wrongs. We can acknowledge horrors, honor those who fought to end them, and still insist that today’s policies focus on opportunity, assimilation, and empowerment rather than permanent victimhood. That is how a free people move forward — together, proud of our country and committed to making it better.
