Schultz draws the comic until his death in 2000. He passes away on the very evening before the last Peanut Strip runs in newspapers. This is America, Charlie Brown tries and fails to deal with some pretty big shifts, cultural and political shifts, that are taking place in America at this moment. Although my report is also about American music, it has a very serious side to it. Slavery, where people were owned like property, had lasted for 245 years in America.