It is the truth of the American constitutional and historical story. To deny it means to deny, not just Glazer's opinions, but demonstrable fact. To acknowledge this fact does not commit one to the view that all is well or that enormous problems don't remain or that the terms of inclusion have sufficed to vouchsafe the promise of America to all citizens. Yet that is what militant multiculturalists require of Glazer and others who can point to chapter and verse, to specific changes, to markers along the road, to concrete struggles by political activists aimed precisely at achieving greater inclusion. Oddly enough, in the interest of denying the validity of inclusion, they wind up diminishing the accomplishments of abolitionists, suffragists, and many others.
Truth takes a beating in another arena.
Glazer points to material in a proposed New York State syllabus for history standards that claim the American Founding Fathers were directly influenced by the Iroquois and Hodenosaunee federations. There is not a shred of evidence to back up this claim. Historic truth is a minor matter. As Glazer presents the alternatives, we seem to have two options. Or go along with the Iroquois and Hodenosaunee stories despite the fact that there is no evidence to back it up.