The real problem is not that we are losing this battle, it is that we already lost it. With racist and fascist adjacent men in the very highest and most powerful offices in the world, they distribute the lies of fake science by these cosplayers with abandon, because it fits their ideologies.

The exhibit, Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a New Nation, honored nine people enslaved by George Washington at the President’s House Site and examined the contradiction between slavery and freedom at the nation’s founding.