Prompted by recent controversy over NFL players and others who have knelt during the national anthem, Attorney General Curtis Hill this week wrote an op-ed sharing his personal beliefs about honoring America and the freedoms promised to her people.
“I fully understand our nation’s history has been far from perfect,†Hill writes. “Race in America has been the persistent stumbling-block of our experiment in freedom. Birthing a new nation ‘conceived in liberty’ while still enslaving, dehumanizing and denigrating an entire race of fellow humans was a corrupting contradiction for which our Founders provided no adequate explanation nor remedy.â€
Nonetheless, Hill observes, America’s story is one of steady progres.
“The very republic that permitted these evils also, through it all, sustained a founding vision of equality that has provided a beacon of hope for that more perfect union,†Hill writes.
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“no remedy”? How about a country with a government that could change through an amendment process built into it’s founding document, the Constitution? How about there not being a country without the ratification of the states where slaves were held? How about AG Hill, whom I think is doing a great job so far, actually studying the Notes of the Constitutional Convention and the Federalist Papers to understand what had to be done to found our country? There is an “explanation” and there was a “remedy”.
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