Okay, welcome back. It is Thursday. Our Thanksgiving Day special, 23 November in the year of our Lord of 2023.

Larry Swicher, the co-author, the Patriots History of the United States.

He's at work now on many, many more endeavors at the appropriate time.

We'll bring this forward in the next couple of weeks.

Some very exciting things that Larry is working on.

Of course, a great writer and great researcher.

So Larry, let's go back to the first Thanksgiving.

Correct me if I'm wrong here, Brother Schweiker, the New York Times tells me the

nation was actually founded in 1619, right?

And we're a racist nation, we're a irredeemable nation.

Is the New York Times correct in that, that nation actually started in 1619, sir?

Well, even if you wanted to argue that Jamestown was, which it was, was historically the first English settlement in

1607, which they were.

The New York Times wants to vamp on that and say that because they were the first that what happened in 1619,

which was the arrival of slaves from the West Indies that therefore the United States was founded in

original sin and slavery and that there is no exceptionalism because it's all

tainted by slavery. And my argument is that no,

Jamestown did not have two of the four pillars of American exceptionalism.

They weren't a mostly Protestant colony.

They were an Anglican colony.

And the Anglicans were not truly Protestants. They weren't protesting against anything except Henry

the 8th's right to have a haughty. He wanted to have Ann Bolin instead of his wife Catherine and he asked the Pope for a divorce and the Pope says

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