Pretending the Founders got everything right from the start completely undermines the best thing about the American system of government: its capacity for positive change and self-improvement.
Michelle Obama once gave a beautiful speech about how her Black daughters played on the lawn of a house built by slaves. This enraged right-wingers who want to forget our nation’s racist legacy, but it was really a message of hope. “We have come so far in the last two and a half centuries of the great American experiment. Imagine what we can become if we continue that progress into the future.”
