By David Carlin, The Catholic Thing - And so they have been forced to invent a new Original-Sin myth. According to this secular myth, the first act of sin was the enslavement of blacks by whites in the year 1619. And to this very day white Americans carry the sin of racism in their wicked hearts, a sin that manifested itself for most of American history in very open ways.. but in recent times has tried to hide itself from view. Whoever looks closely, however ...