And the There's a storm over America today and that storm is the distortion of American history.

America wasn't founded on an idea.

America wasn't founded on slavery or by slaves, and America wasn't founded on slavery or by slaves and America wasn't founded as a city upon a hill.

America, the real tangible America, was born in Virginia.

That's the America we should emulate. So much of what we think about America

comes from Virginia. These early Virginia is founded the first elected assembly in 1619, the real 1619 project. When we think about American culture, we think of

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Patrick Henry, those Virginians were instrumental in what we think of America today.

They established civil liberties in the name of the rights of Englishmen, and much of American

culture comes from Virginia.

Whether it's music or the military tradition,

Virginia is the key to understanding

what America is and what America was. That's why we created the 1607 project.

Join us in this journey from 1607 to the present and find out what the real America is all about. Well, welcome to the conversations that matter podcast. I am your host John Harris as always and good to be

podcasting today I hope you all had a good Lord's day What you just watched if you started watching the

podcast at the beginning is a trailer for the 1607 project. You can go to

1607 project.

And you can go to 1607 project.com and find out more about that and share that trailer around with your friends.

I know I was going to talk about this.

I said I was going to talk about this last week and I had to put it off with everything going on and

So I wanted to get to it now. I've talked about it on the program before though and this was really something that I it was an idea that I had probably a year

and a half or more now ago it was around the time the 1619 project was taking off and

I said why not have a 1607 project and talk about

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