Stop Doubting America and Americans as a Force for Good

Too many intellectuals, journalists, and pundits make a living bemoaning what is wrong in our country, showing far more interest in the disease than in the cure.

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Editor’s note: Following the release of “America’s Crisis of Self-Doubt,” National Review’s statement of affirming belief in America’s principles against growing doubts about them, on both left and right, National Review has invited signatories to the statement to elaborate on their own faith in America. You can find another entry here.

If you got all your information from television, you would naturally assume America’s future is bleak. Depending on the station you watch, you might assume we are destined to be consumed by a fiery ball of either poverty and racism or crime and reverse-racism.

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About the Author

Robert L. Woodson Sr.

Bob Woodson, the founder and president of the Woodson Center, is the editor of Red, White, and Black: Rescuing American History from Revisionists and Race Hustlers and the author of Lessons from the Least of Us: The Woodson Principles.

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