Self-evident

South Bend, Ind.: When I read about a racially insensitive comment made by a Republican school board campaign manager in Guilford, Conn., I wasn’t surprised that a member of the disingenuously named group “Truth in Education” leaped to her defense by uttering the cliché that America’s founders had proclaimed “all men are created equal.” The Declaration of Independence also contains a phrase denouncing “merciless Indian Savages,” so America’s founders apparently didn’t view them too equally. Until the Civil War changed it, Article I of the Constitution stated that, for purposes of Congressional representation, slaves were considered three-fifths of a human being. The purveyors of the campaign against Critical Race Theory have relied on far too many Americans being uninformed about these facts, which has enabled them to manufacture genuine, but misguided, outrage against an imaginary problem for self-serving political and financial gain. David R. Hoffman