Here’s another interesting fact about America most people don’t know. When we got our independence in 1776 and our Founders formed our constitution they wanted slavery eliminated at that time. They understood the hypocrisy of our constitution, while still having slavery. So the abolitionist movement was in place in the 1700s, and long before that in NA.

Here’s the problem they had. The South would not go along with it, and sign onto becoming a nation, if slavery was eliminated. At that time, the Founders felt it was important to form a country for protection and they would deal with the slavery issue later. They needed the South for the protection of our Nation. We weren’t big back then, and there were still a lot of countries that wanted to attack us, not to mention the Indians constantly attacking us. At that time, our nation was mainly formed for protection against foreign enemies. States still controlled everything locally.

Most the Founders thought the slavery issue would get addressed a short time later. They never thought it’d take 100 years and a violent civil war to finally end it. So it’s not correct to say America didn’t do anything about slavery untill 1860s.

There was a lot of activity here and in other countries to get rid of it, almost as soon as the first slaves arrived in NA. But we were decentralized at that time, with each colony doing its own thing. And slavery was the norm back then, kind of like liberalism is for us today.

I know it’s hard for some people to put history into context of what is going on at that time. These people like to apply our situation and our culture and our values to things in the past. It doesn’t work that way. To understand history and people’s actions and comments, you’ve got to put it into context of that time.

In fact, all nations in the West had a large part of their population against slavery. But they first had to get freedom themselves, before they could do something about slavery.

This is what America taught the world. We can be free from the State and another individual owning us, while still having a government to protect us from outside enemies. America taught nations around the world how to be self-governing, which led to the end of slavery.

If the people kneeling and sitting when our National Anthem is played understood our history, they would be standing tall and proud to be an American, but they have been radicalized by the Left, and have a distorted view of history.