'Fortunately, people of all races seem to be rejecting the delusion of separatism. They’re rallying instead to the maxim that defines Americanness and to the effort to bring the American dream within everyone’s reach.' -Timothy Sandefur
that the Constitution, properly interpreted, actually gave federal officials the power to abolish slavery, if they were willing. Douglass thought he’d been proven right when, in 1861, Southerners could only protect slavery by abandoning the Constitution and declaring independence.
In short, 1619 partisans advance an argument once heard only from members of white supremacist groups: that black people are disqualified from Americanness. They do this in hopes of harnessing resentment for political advantage. This is the motivation behind “reparations” schemes that redistribute wealth from people of other races to the descendants of slaves or racial preferences that give jobs or college enrollment to people based on ancestry, not merit.
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