THE RACIAL RECKONING COMES BROOKS' FRANKLIN STORY A UNIFYING NATIONAL STORY

Let's just take a look, for a moment, in the fight for history, at the real Franklin, not Brooks' Whig Interpretation childhood Franklin Story. 

As an aside, most of the very few Jews in colonial America, Brooks' ancestors, (E. g, he grew up in Stuyvesant Town housing project as a child.) were Dutch Sephardic Jews, not English, and were, so to speak, grandfathered in (from when New York was still a Dutch colony. They would never have been allowed to come here as Englishmen.), where Jews generally were unwelcome immigrants at all times in all colonies by all sects.)  The absence of a previously existing American identity was admitted, even by those most interested in promoting independence. Franklin, on the other side, argued that a union against Britain was impossible:  

fourteen separate governments.......not only under different governors, but (they) have different forms of government, different laws, different interests, and some of them different religious persuasions, and different manners.  Their jealousy of each other is so great, that, howevver necessary a union of the colonies has long been, for their common defence and security against their enemies, and how sensible soever each colony has been of that necessity; yet they have never been able to effect such a union among themselves, nor even to agree in requesting the mother country to establish it for them. BF, V. 4, p. 41.

Re Brooks' Whig Unifying National Franklin Story:

IF IT'S NOT A PIG'S BREAKFAST, IT'S NOT REAL HISTORY