“1776” Bashed Slavery Way Before CRT

Before musical “Hamilton” there was “1776” whose oft-critiqued content by CRT revolutionaries is nevertheless a blunt deep dive into slave state brutality if not foolishness & northern hypocrisy so we all could one day be free…

The melodies in “1776” may have been more like an eraser scratching on a blackboard while critics mostly say that were “engaging, witty, tuneful”. Surely, our divided Congress would be torn on the topic as well. But even the Marxist founders of BLM would be hard pressed not to be impressed with the musical's show-stopping “Molasses to Rum” rendition, which drips with sarcasm over Northern as well as Southern profiteering in the slave trade; it uncompromisingly berates the ugliness of plantation owners unmitigated abuse of other beings as well as the utter callousness of some colonial whites whose bottom line is helped by the dehumanizing “peculiar institution”.

Throughout the oft-fictitious 1972 Broadway play ... and if we tune out the sometimes clownish behavior of the Founding Fathers ... students of history cannot miss the portrayed bitter and openly honest congressional debate, i.e., over how to establish a nation on contrary notions of “freedom”, “liberty” and “equality” in the face of the "Divine Right of Kings" doctrine of the time. Talk about a "Great Experiment" that most thought would fail sooner rather than later. Yet, its own revolutionary PRINCIPLES live on today, if imperfectly. Certainly, the colonials didn’t invent slavery that still exists throughout the world. But in the unanimously adopted Declaration of Independence they did finally tell the truth to anyone who'd listen: That slavery was not only doomed in America for practical reasons, but for the eternal moral logic that all men are created equal in God's eyes. Since July 4, 1776, then, it’s a truth that governments, especially those run by kings & dictators & Marxists, could no longer ignore & for which up to 750,000 white Americans would die by 1865.

Davd Soul