 There were about 4,000 to 5,000 slave-owning blacks who owned tens of thousands of slaves in the South. So to smear only America with this is ridiculous. It's all wrong. I hate it. I wish all this hadn't happened, but we didn't start it. But damn it, we finished it. Absolutely. You're 100% right there. In a lot of ways, what the 1619 Project likes to accuse Americans of doing is more probably apt than Ireland.