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The unique nature of Black history affords our country an opportunity to better understand who we are as a nation. The woke left will tell you that the United States was founded on hate and slavery. Because of that, progressive leaders will tell you that our country bears a national shame and was born from evil intent. They spend their time fighting to wipe away all evidence of slaveholders from existence, like Confederate statues.
But they are wrong.
The presence of slavery at the nation’s founding was about man’s ability and willingness to sin.
Slavery was the symptom, not the cause.
Black History is documentation that even in a great nation, sin was present.
The Creator gave man the ability to choose. This is why freedom is so important.
Men should not be denied their ability to choose. And men also should not be allowed to escape their responsibility to choose good over evil.
This is the lesson we must learn from Black History.
Black history tells a uniquely important story in our nation. It is a story that no other race or ethnicity shares. No other ethnicity shares a history in which their ancestors did not come here by choice. And it’s this uniqueness of this story that must be comprehended if we are to understand our country, where it has been, and where it needs to go.
We must ignore those who call America evil because of past sins. We must embrace our faith so we can understand that the sins of the past do not define the future of our great nation, despite what those on the left would have us believe.
Those who have declared that the nation was evil at its birth now want to seize control over every aspect of our lives and put themselves in charge of deciding what we can and cannot do.
This is a great and dangerous distortion, doomed to add on to, not erase, the sin at America’s founding.
