It was so intentionally wrong. It was an insult to every white American. We fought in wars and died by the hundreds of thousands through history to protect and preserve our documents of origin: Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights.
Yes, anyone could go into our past, and find the evils that we have done by segments of our people and even as a nation. God knows that individually and collectively, the United States has, at times, committed moral and ethical wrongs which can be compared to the great wrongs of history. But each time, we have subsequently gone back ...