That's the Plan

The 1619 Project Won’t Heal the Nation, it Will Sow Discord [More]

Exactly.

One way of looking at things is to note American concepts of freedom led to the elimination of the millennia-old global practice of slavery in a matter of decades.

Another is that the feds simply turned it into an equal opportunity proposition, and one that works so well because the slaves believe they're free.

Perhaps "discord" is what it's going to take to, like the motto says, live free or die.