In 1776, our founders brought forth on this planet an extraordinary new possibility. It was the idea that people, no matter who they were, would simply have the possibility of thriving.
We need to seal the gap between who we say we are and who we really are. It was baked into the cake from the beginning. 41 signers of the Declaration of Independence were slave owners. We have never lived up to that all men and women are created equal. It is our character defect.
