I left taking two American history classes in college with the outcome feeling like I should be ashamed of America.

The only time I’ve ever felt shamed of America is in the last few years starting in 2020.

America has had many choices to make since its beginning. There’s many choices that you have to make in everyday life, including hard and difficult choices even those that you don’t want to have to make but you have no choice.

If America was to burn down entirely and crumble to the ground and if it was left to many American survivors then barbaric choices would be back on the table just like the founders had to deal with.

Desperate times means desperate measures and everyone suffers.  Who’s going to volunteer to clean up the burnt ground and start building without compensation?  

I don’t believe America was already built when it started to buy people overseas to enslave them for work. I don’t believe America was very rich and wealthy when they had to make these horrible and desperate decisions.  

Without these difficult and terrible decisions then no one would had been freed.

No one was free without the difficult decisions with the choices that were made.