As I note at Breitbart, the National Archives has produced a report that declares themselves racist -- including, specifically, the Rotunda in which the nation's founding documents are preserved.
I don't think there could be any serious objections to adding exhibits to the Rotunda that reflect broader participation in the nation's founding. However, the casting of the nation's Founding as racist -- or, at best, incomplete -- is a real problem.
The report declares: "Freedom wasn’t fully chartered by the three documents in the Rotunda." That reflects what one might call a "soft" version of Critical Race Theory: not that the documents are racist as such, but insufficiently anti-racist.
President Trump offered a (p)rebuttal to that argument when he delivered a speech at the Rotunda last September: "America’s founding set in motion the unstoppable chain of events that abolished slavery, secured civil rights, defeated communism and fascism, and built the most fair, equal, and prosperous nation in human history." In other words, freedom was inherent to the documents. Other, later documents simply elucidated and elaborate the original idea.
It is true that later documents -- like the post-Civil War amendments, for example -- added to, and subtracted from, the original text. But a nation that wants to survive must believe that its founding is transcendent. You can have an academic debate, or you can have a nation that preserves the right to that free academic debate, but if you only have the former, you won't for long.
https://www.archives.gov/files/news/archivists-task-force-on-racism-report.pdf
Today's episode is devoted to the second anniversary of the October 7 terror attacks. It was produced before the announcement of a ceasefire deal, yet remains current & relevant.
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This week's portion is a beautiful poem, containing the Covenant between God and the people of Israel. But given the breaking news that Hamas may actually have agreed to release all of the Israeli hostages, I will devote my remarks to that.
One hopes it is true; if so, it makes this week's additional reading, from II Samuel 22, even more relevant: David's song of praise to the Lord for delivering him from the hand of his enemies.
"18 He rescued me from my powerful enemy,
from my foes, who were too strong for me.
19 They confronted me in the day of my disaster,
but the Lord was my support."
So much to focus on this week -- and much breaking news. A peace deal in the Middle East, perhaps? Eric Adams dropping out of the mayor's race? And a looming shutdown as Democrats push their demands beyond absurdity.
Special guests:
- Bradley Jaye - Breitbart News congressional correspondent, on the shutdown
- John Carney - Breitbart News financial editor, on the upcoming jobs report
- Jerome Hudson - Breitbart News entertainment editor, on the Kimmel fallout
- Frances Martel - Breitbart News foreign editor, on the UN and Gaza talks
- Matisyahu - award-winning reggae artist, on his new album, "Ancient Child"
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