Will America’s 250th anniversary mark the end of our nation’s noble dream?

I spent about one year of my life in 1776. My time travel began on July 4 of 2020. 

After listening to various voices on the left speak about blowing off the Fourth of July, tearing down statues of our Founding Fathers and sandblasting their names off schools and buildings, in effect canceling their very existence, I became quite alarmed. I have long believed that if our history is bad, we should condemn it and learn from it. If it is good, we should praise it and  build upon it. But we should never, ever cancel our shared American history. 

From that belief and that year of my life came the book, “The 56 – Liberty Lessons from those who risked all to sign The Declaration of Independence.“

“History” itself has taught us over the centuries that those seeking to rewrite pasts of our past that they find objectionable are rarely, if ever, on the side of goodness and light. History, by its very definition, is unchangeable. All of its facts, joys and horrors should serve as guideposts for our future.  

To be sure, the “victors” and totalitarians of the past who rewrote or reimagined history inspired the critical writings (and ever relevant warnings) of the likes of Victor Hugo, Ayn Rand and George Orwell — warnings that are mostly going unheeded today. 

My childhood was one of massive dysfunction and poverty. By the time I was 17 years of age, I had been evicted from 34 homes. It was an existence that, counterintuitively, became a lasting blessing: with each eviction, I got to experience another part of America. 

As a white........

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