Activists such as Nikole Hannah-Jones¹, Kim Crenshaw², and Ibram Kendi³ promote this myth. They claim that slavery and segregation prove that 'racism' was an American founding-value and that, therefore, all of America's key institutions are inherently racist. This historically inaccurate claim serves a political goal: to provide a noble-sounding justification to dismantle America's institutions, and to replace them with an impossible socialist utopia. Slogans such as "No Good Cop in a Racist Society", "Defund the police", and "Systemic Racism" rest on the 'America Racist' myth.

• America's Founding Fathers Opposed Slavery: George Washington condemned slavery, critized the British government for it, and called for "an entire stop to such a wicked cruel and unnatural trade" . Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence also condemned slavery, describing it as a "cruel war against human nature". James Madison called it a "sad blot on our free country", and John Quincy Adams called slavery "a sin before the sight of God". Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin and John Jay developed coalitions dedicated to ending slavery, and to protect free people of color. All of this happened at time when slavery was universally accepted and a pervasive part of the global economy, which explain the apparent contradiction as of why some owned slaves themselves at the time. In short, American slavery was not was not a philosophical blueprint based on racism: it was a sad political compromise to keep the Southern States from leaving the union.
  Photo: E.A UnuabonaFoot soldiers of a misleading cause
  Photo: E.A UnuabonaFoot soldiers of a misleading cause
• America fought to end slavery: What makes America different is not its period of slavery. Back then slavery was the norm across the Western and Eastern world. What makes America different is that it fought a war to end slavery. This happened not only locally, but also internationally. The U.S. Navy played a key role in this effort, dispatching warships off the coast of West Africa, intercepting slave ships and freeing enslaved Africans. The U.S. fought and died to end slavery during their Civil War. Soon after, the U.S. embarked on a mission to abolish the transatlantic slave trade, internationally.
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