I’ll never fully understand it. Despite the robust, centuries-long (let’s be real, millennia-long) custom of slavery on every continent of this planet of all languages, cultures, skin colors, races, religions, and everything in between—somehow the United States and its comparatively short-lived and comparatively tiny* foray into slavery always ends up as the scapegoat. We alone…
Here’s a challenge for you: find a puzzle, dump out all the pieces on the table, and remove the ones you think look ugly. Once those pieces are removed, try and complete the puzzle. Ridiculous, obviously. You need all the pieces to complete the puzzle—and once completed, those pieces you would have otherwise thrown away…
As I sit contemplating our nation’s great history as the 235th birthday of the United States is celebrated this month, I consider what it took to achieve and maintain. What great sacrifices have transpired, from those colonists who signed with their sacred honor the Declaration of Independence, to the doomed men walking their last steps…
A Future Free 