'That isn't true': Michele Bachmann says slavery was not 'sinful' at America's inception
Former Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) celebrated America's birthday by declaring that slavery was not a "sinful" part of the nation's founding.
In a July 4 appearance on the Christian program Flashpoint, Bachmann was asked how America's youth viewed the country's inception.
She responded by calling the 1619 Project's efforts to document the effects of slavery "evil."
"Well, I think sometimes when evil comes into the world and when falsehoods come into our nation, people react to that," Bachmann said. "There's the 1619 Project that came in, and that is a rewriting of American history, a false view of American history. And a lot of people were absolutely appalled by that."
The former lawmaker claimed that today's students are falsely being taught that America was "sinful from our inception" because slavery existed in the original 13 colonies when the war for independence broke out in 1775.
"They're taught things that aren't true, that America is a hateful country, that we were sinful from our inception," she asserted. "That isn't true. And so there's a whole 'nother group who are interested in knowing what the truth is."
"And so they're very motivated, and they're active and wanting to get the truth out to people," Bachmann insisted.
A majority of the "Founding Fathers" were slave owners, according to Britannica.