It is America’s enduring and, to many, unrepentable national fault, one that has been relentlessly and incessantly beaten like the proverbial dead horse every 4th of July for decades: “America is not perfect”—as if it were possible for America, or any other nation that is populated by sinners (and every nation is populated by sinners) to be “perfect” (whatever “perfect” means).
The current socio-cultural milieu in America is such that one need not strive very long before landing precisely on what national fault it is that I am alluding to in the aforementioned paragraph: slavery. Slavery—and particularly America’s (grossly misunderstood) role in it—is the only act for which those who actually never experienced it as a slave can, nonetheless, claim to have been injured by it and, subsequently, demand and receive compensation for their non-injuries primarily in the form of government reparations.
The singling out of the United States, which, by the…
