I'm not arguing that there is a better period in the past than what we're experiencing now. But American history relative to the present has no bearing on the s

I'm not arguing that there is a better period in the past than what we're experiencing now. But American history relative to the present has no bearing on the severity of the atrocities we're seeing now, no? Are you suggesting that what I've outlined above is somehow acceptable because America has always had black marks in the history books?