History Is Just The Facts

Thomas F Campenni
3 min readMay 31, 2021

Critical Race Theory, 1619 Project, 1776 Project, or any other notion that American history can be shaped to fit a particular political point of view are nothing more than propaganda rather than facts.

As a discipline, history is not judgmental. It is a series of facts describing something(s) that happened at some point in the past. For instance, in 1619 Africans from Angola were brought to Point Comfort on the James River in Virginia and sold.

For the first 20 or so years after that date, an argument could be made that Africans were not to be kept in bondage…

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Thomas F Campenni

Currently lives in Stuart Florida and former City Commissioner. His career has been as a commercial real estate owner, broker and manager in New York City.