COMMENTARY: Time to stop whitewash Joseph R. Fitzgerald FacebookTwitterEmail Back to school supplies. Books and blackboard on wooden backgroundseksan Mongkhonkhamsao, Contributor / Getty Images In the last days of his presidency, Donald J. Trump released the “1776 Report,” a work he commissioned to counter the allegedly anti-American sentiment in the nation’s school systems. It was something that was purportedly advanced by The New York Times’ 1619 Project, which centers European’s enslavement of Africans as a foundational event in the nation’s history. The solution to this, the “1776 Report” stated, is “restoring patriotic education that teaches the truth about America. That doesn’t mean,” it went on, “ignoring the faults in our past, but rather viewing our history clearly and wholly, with reverence and love.”