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A Win in Philadelphia for America’s Founders

RealClearWire—On July 15, the National Park Service hung new interpretive signs at the President’s House Site in Independence Park, where George Washington lived as president while Philadelphia was the nation’s capital. This is a major development in the battle between those who want to portray America’s history in a traditional manner and woke activists who depict our history as one of oppressors versus the oppressed, recasting most American heroes as oppressors.

The site’s previous exhibit, opened during the Obama administration, was spurred by leftist activists like the Avenging the Ancestors Coalition. As ATAC (pronounced “attack”) said in an amicus brief filed in federal court, it “embedded” itself in the site’s “development.” ATAC has sponsored “Anti-July Fourth Day” events, while its founder, Michael Coard, says that “July Fourth is a celebration of … rapes, castrations, lynchings, and enslavement,” and those who celebrate it are “traitors” who “embrace whiteness” and “the 1776 birth of the racist American nation.”

The White House’s recent report on the Smithsonian Institution says that its National Museum of American History should have an entrance sign saying, “Warning: the exhibits in this museum were prepared by people who don’t want you to love your country.” That was certainly true of the old exhibit at the President’s House Site.

Largely destroyed in 1832 (only its ruins remain), the President’s House is where Washington and John Adams served during most of the Constitution’s crucial first decade........

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