Douglas Rooks
Craig Hickman, who won a state Senate special election on Tuesday, would be an unusual candidate in any political contest. Inevitably, though, he stands out through a category that – much more than most would like to admit – has long dominated American life.
The competing narratives were laid out recently in the New York Times’s “1619” project, which puts slavery at the center of European conquest of the “New World,” and the “1776” project, hastily assembled at the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, which presents the Founders as just, far-sighted statesmen – even if many of them happened to own slaves.
Douglas Rooks: Hickman s victory and the Third Founding yet to come
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