Posted on 08/24/2019 4:22:57 AM PDT by C19fan
For such an ambitious project examining Americas history of racism; the 1619 Project falls short on multiple levels. Right out of the gate, Nikole Hannah-Jones essay misleads on the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution. First, its worth noting that NY Times publisher Dean Baquet admitted that since the Russia 24/7 narrative didnt work as planned, exploring the roots of racism because Trump! is Plan B. Hannah-Jones went further when introducing the project. What if I told you that the year 1619 is as important to the American story as the year 1776? What if I told you that America is a country born both of an idea and a lie? she asked. Hannah-Jones essay kick-starts the entire 1619 Project. I urge everyone to read the essay in its entirety and all the other materials with the project. Historical facts not in evidence. This is her jaw dropper about the Declaration of Independence. And so in Jeffersons original draft of the Declaration of Independence, he tried to argue that it wasnt the colonists fault. Instead, he blamed the king of England for forcing the institution of slavery on the unwilling colonists and called the trafficking in human beings a crime. Yet neither Jefferson nor most of the founders intended to abolish slavery, and in the end, they struck the passage.
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Britain banned slavery throughout the Empire in 1833 almost 70 years after the Declaration.
IMO the slaves were a pawn in a bigger game... by offering to free the slaves, the North was trying to divide the South and start an uprising to weaken them.
They may have agreed with the notion that slaves were people too, but it was a war time strategy to weaken the South and keep them part of the Union.
At the end of the day, wars are fought about resources... and tax dollars to the Republic were that resource.
Unsurprisingly the NYTimes is going on its own version of facts, a habit of very long standing with them.
The idea that slavery was the defining issue in the rebellion is obviously bunk. However, Lord Mansfield’s ruling in the Somersett case did leave many southern placeholders worried that the ruling that slavery was illegal on English soil was undoubtedly a factor that caused many plantation owners to side with the rebellion. Lord Dunmore’s establishing of the “Ethiopia Regiment” promising freedom in return for military service for the crown also worried many.
A little off subject but . . . .
The Gettysburg National Museum in Harrisburg PA has an interactive system that tells the story of the Civil War as you stroll through it. One of the features is a computer with the names of everyone who fought in the Civil War - on both sides!
I looked up my last name and found one match. A Sargent who fought for the North.
So I figure my family name is free from the repercussions of “Reparations”!
I just wonder if the American people are stupid enough to believe this. The Leftists are counting on the fact that Americans have been dumbed down enough by Leftists who have been running public education for the last 70 years and laid the foundation.
Any and all newly produced history books will enthusiastically promote this lie, along with college professors, who damn well better know which side of their bread to butter if they want a job or tenure.
I talked with a nephew who was taking an American history course in college and was surprised to find that American history is taught today based on the perspective of white supremacy.
I bought what was supposed to be a cutting edge biography of Andrew Jackson, and, yes, there it was — Jackson was a white supremacist.
I would say it's not important to me just because you say it is.
What if I told you that America is a country born both of an idea and a lie?
I would say, "Well, you seem to be a pretty good liar yourself!"
The OUTRIGHT lies and deceit of the Democratic Leftists knows no bounds. This is a LIE. Pure and Simple. And they try to use lies like this to continue there sick, demented, perverted changing of history to get their way of destroying out Constitutional Republic!!
Howard Zinn is patting himself on the back (in Hell) for changing the course of American “history”
we need to realize that America and especially our constitution, representative governance, and individual liberties, are under seige......from within ... by outright enemies of us and everything we cherish and value in this country
they want to impose a far leftist (communist-nazi-progressive, use whatever wording you believe fits best) dictatorship.....period, end of file...and they’re quite open about their objectives (just listen to the DNC “debates” and several of their “leading” candidates!...all clearly SorozNazi puppets and.or?
and they have co=conspirators (or allied puppets and useful idiots, more precisely) in the mass media (and Hollywood) aiding and abetting them... every day... with every mass media propagandistic “news” report......and with a number of actors shooting off their mouths like idiots, all apeing Big Lies about America, Christians and Jews, and of course basic moral values...(Goebbels would be SO proud!)
They may have agreed with the notion that slaves were people too, but it was a war time strategy to weaken the South and keep them part of the Union.
At the end of the day, wars are fought about resources... and tax dollars to the Republic were that resource.
You're thinking too small. Expanding the war goals in 1863 to the abolition of slavery was intended to prevent Britain and France from recognizing the Confederacy and supplying them with arms. This is the reason Lincoln did not make the announcement till after the Union got a military victory so the declaration of the Emancipation Proclamation would not look like a weak gesture. That's why it was announced after the battle of Antietam which at least for the Union side was not a defeat.
We (well, white folks) stole the land the NY times is sitting on—but they keep publishing anyway!
Hypocrites—native Americans should own and run that newspaper—now!
We (well, white folks) stole the land the NY times is sitting on—but they keep publishing anyway!
Hypocrites—native Americans should own and run that newspaper—now!
330,000+ WHITE UNION military knowingly left their families and went to their deaths during the Civil War; they gave up their lives to free the BLACK AMERICAN SLAVES, they followed the directives and emancipation orders of their government, a government THEY ELECTED. I have never heard a Progressive African-American, or a White Progressive, ever acknowledge, much less credit these men for their sacrifices, nor do they recognize the 260,000+ White Union military who were wounded and/or grievously disabled; nor the widows; nor the children, nor the families of the military who also suffered TO FREE THE BLACK SLAVES.”
The Union lost almost twice number, KIA and mortally wounded men at the THREE DAYS at Gettysburg, than the Blacks lost during the entire Civil War.
But whose counting, certainly not the 1619 PROJECT!
It’s s stinking shame that we have to defend our American Heritage from these filthy morons.
It has been estimated that approximately 675,000 Negroes were brought to the U.S. to be slaves. When you consider that 660,000 men DIED during the Civil War to free them (That doesn’t include those that were injured), you’d think that we as Americans have done plenty to try resolve the slave problem.
But these absolute fools continue to stoke the flames to try to malign the most wonderful country that ever existed.
Trump supporters aren’t white supremist, but we do realize that western civilization is far superior to others. They even know it in Hong Kong.
Even so, before WWI the coal miners in Wales were little more than slaves.
Not to pick, but that number includes CSA dead who cannot reasonably be said to have fought forfor the abolition of slavery.
Roughly 360K Union and 285K CSA make up the total, which has been revised upwards recently to closer to one million.
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