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OPINION
My daughter begins her college career this fall, and I know it’s only a matter of time before she’s taught that America’s Founding Fathers were a bunch of “evil white men.”
She has not one — but two — mandatory DEI classes to complete before graduation at her public university. I am sure professors in several of her humanities classes will likely voice contempt for our founders and this country in one way or another.
Over the years I’ve done what I can to inoculate her from the bias she will receive as a college student, providing her in a variety of ways with the facts, logic, data, and counterarguments to the Left’s narrative.
One of them has always been to support efforts that debunk progressivism’s constant drumbeat, so I took her to see the new “Young Washington” movie on July 3.
The film showcases perhaps one of Washington’s biggest failures, his utter defeat as a 22-year-old lieutenant colonel in the Virginia militia at the battle at Fort Necessity.
Yet it is how he ultimately responds to this surrender that teaches us the measure of the man, who turns around and risks his life for his men and country.
We see the difficulties Washington faced, the experiences and early failures that shaped him, and the courage and wisdom those moments forged within him to become the leader who launched our nation.
It’s a side of Washington she would never learn about from most professors at the typical university.
Our Founding Fathers were not perfect, a fact mainstream academia tends to focus on exclusively. But they were brave men who risked everything to establish our exceptional Constitutional Republic founded on our God-given right to independence, self-governance, and liberty.
It’s a great message — and movie — for your kids before they head back to school.
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