Christopher F. Rufo  ⚔️

If you took the @nytimes 1619 project and you wove it together with Trump's 1776 Commission report, you would begin to understand the true story of America. Each one carries half the load.

The Founders inherited a world of universal deprivation, slavery, and unfreedom. They did not abolish these conditions in their lifetimes, but created a philosophy and structure that led to their abolition over time. They left the world more just than they entered it.

100 percent. But my middle class parents bought a house in 1961 that - after trading up twice - became an inheritance. I don't know who held the first mortgage but I'm fairly sure a young Black couple could not have gotten one. These are things that need to be made right.

This is a conversation I'd really like to have, but for some reason I feel like Twitter might not be the right place. I will find a better forum. Having these discussions in good faith is the way out.