Posted on 01/28/2020 8:20:40 AM PST by karpov
The 1619 Project—The New York Times Magazine's much vaunted series of essays about the introduction of African slavery to the Americas—will now be taught in K-12 schools around the country.
School districts in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Buffalo, New York, have decided to update their history curricula to include the material, which posits that the institution of slavery was so embedded in the country's DNA that the country's true founding could be said to have occurred in 1619, rather than in 1776.
"One of the things that we are looking at in implementing The 1619 Project is to let everyone know that the issues around the legacy of enslavement that exist today, it's an American issue, it's not a Black issue," Dr. Fatima Morrell, associate superintendent for culturally and linguistically responsive initiatives for Buffalo Public Schools, told Buffalo's NPR station.
Buffalo teachers and administrators have already begun studying the 1619 material so they can implement it into their curricula. The NPR story correctly notes that the essays examine "lesser-known consequences of slavery," like "how plantation economics led to modern corporate, capitalist culture."
Many historians, though, have questioned The 1619 Project's accuracy. Five of them penned a letter to The New York Times expressing dismay "at some of the factual errors in the project and the closed process behind it." These historians said the project's contention that the American Revolution was launched "in order to ensure slavery would continue" was flat-out wrong.
Another historian, Phil Magness of the American Institute for Economic Research, has criticized Matthew Desmond's 1619 Project essay, which claimed that modern American capitalism has its roots in plantation slavery. Magness has persuasively argued that this claim lacks verification, and that Desmond relied on bad data about cotton-picking rates in the pre-Civil War south.
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Home school.
Of course they are. It makes all the students hate wypipo.
And, I know someone on here has the map showing the dispersal of people sold in Africa by their own kind and shipped out to various locations.
Just using up the time until you are run out of office at election time.
Why not? They already teach Zinn, Marxist, Common Core...why not 1619? More fiction than a comic book?
I am sure the NYT people had a good laugh when the “Historians penned them a letter”.
A few weeks ago, I was at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library when I encountered a boy who was of grade-school age. He asked some intelligent questions and made some comparisons between the Vietnam War and the Hundred Years' War. I asked him where he went to school, and he told me he is being homeschooled.
Because Spain was occupied by Muslims, slavery was still predominant there, while the Portuguese, in the 16th century, were the first to engage in the Atlantic slave trade. In 1526, they completed the first transatlantic slave voyage to Brazil, and other Europeans soon followed.
Britain had been shipping convicts to America for decades before they started sending them to Australia. In fact, it was precisely because of America’s fight for independence that the Brits had to start sending their criminals to Australia. But from 1718 until 1775, convict transportation to the American colonies flourished.
If slaves were so good for a national economy, how come Africa was so poor?
They had more slaves than anybody.
The progs want a nation of history and culture morons they can control.
Flyover county will have a field day with them.
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The purpose is to create more America-haters.
More proof that schools are just re-education camps for leftists.
How do we EFFECTIVELY fight this?
Yep homeschool, because if Conservatives cede every inch of territory to the progressive left we will prevail.
Ok, then
On every ballot, for school board, for school board millage taxes, everything connected with the school districts, vote no, vote out.
Ridicule absurdity.
No way I would allow a child of mine to be indoctrinated in alternative history to suit liberals or socialist!
that the institution of slavery was so embedded in the country’s DNA that the country’s true founding could be said to have occurred in 1619, rather than in 1776.
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Really strange. The US Republic didn’t start until 1789, when the Constitution was ratified.
Our current states were French, Dutch, British, and Spanish colonies. All which practiced the slave trade.
The Declaration of Independence states, “All men are created equal.” It took from 1776 until 1808 to end importation of slaves into the US:
“Trans-Atlantic slave trade was banned in the United States on Jan. 1, 1808. In 1805, a bill was introduced in the U.S. Senate to ban the trans-Atlantic slave trade, which President Thomas Jefferson supported in 1806 when he delivered his annual address to Congress. He signed a bill passed by both the House and the Senate in 1807, but it did not become law until Jan, 1, 1808, per the timeline set in the Constitution.
The statement, “All men are created Equal”, written by Thomas Jefferson, held up an ideal, that many fought against, but this ideal eventually prevailed, after much pain and suffering.
So slavery existed in the US between 1789 and 1865. Not for centuries, a total of 76 years. The Left can’t keep trying to blame the US for for what happened under the colonial powers.
If in fact, the Left wants to go back in history, they need to declare that the countries from which Americans of color came, in fact are more responsible, than the US. It was Africans who sold their populations, and their conquered enemies into slavery.
“Almost all the countries and civilizations had slavery at one point of time. And the rest of the countries like that of Canada, didn’t allow legal slavery, but there are records of slavery in the Native American cultures that thrived prior to the arrival of Europeans.”
that the institution of slavery was so embedded in the country’s DNA that the country’s true founding could be said to have occurred in 1619, rather than in 1776.
***************
Really strange. The US Republic didn’t start until 1789, when the Constitution was ratified.
Our current states were French, Dutch, British, and Spanish colonies. All which practiced the slave trade.
The Declaration of Independence states, “All men are created equal.” It took from 1776 until 1808 to end importation of slaves into the US:
“Trans-Atlantic slave trade was banned in the United States on Jan. 1, 1808. In 1805, a bill was introduced in the U.S. Senate to ban the trans-Atlantic slave trade, which President Thomas Jefferson supported in 1806 when he delivered his annual address to Congress. He signed a bill passed by both the House and the Senate in 1807, but it did not become law until Jan, 1, 1808, per the timeline set in the Constitution.
The statement, “All men are created Equal”, written by Thomas Jefferson, held up an ideal, that many fought against, but this ideal eventually prevailed, after much pain and suffering.
So slavery existed in the US between 1789 and 1865. Not for centuries, a total of 76 years. The Left can’t keep trying to blame the US for for what happened under the colonial powers.
If in fact, the Left wants to go back in history, they need to declare that the countries from which Americans of color came, in fact are more responsible, than the US. It was Africans who sold their populations, and their conquered enemies into slavery.
“Almost all the countries and civilizations had slavery at one point of time. And the rest of the countries like that of Canada, didn’t allow legal slavery, but there are records of slavery in the Native American cultures that thrived prior to the arrival of Europeans.”
slavery existed in the entire world from before the time of Abraham. Does that mean that slavery is ingrained in the DNA of all Africans and all Middle Easterners and all South Americans and all Asians and all Messicans - and even among indian tribes in the soon-to-be USA? Do they mention that England and the USA spent 60 years on the high seas enforcing a no-transport policy, even creating and defending African states where slaves could be repatriated?
or is the 1619 project just another hate-Anglos propaganda tool?
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