Posted on 02/07/2020 6:12:19 AM PST by Enlightened1
The New York Times’ 1619 Project — a curriculum that makes the fantastical claim that a primary cause of the Revolutionary War was the colonists’ desire to protect slavery — has been adopted in 3,500 classrooms across all 50 states.
For this reason, some of the nation’s most renowned historians have called for The Times to correct this and other factual errors.
The Pulitzer Center, which is partnering with The Times to promote The 1619 Project, recounted in its 2019 annual report, “Good journalism, innovative educational resources, and deep community engagement are absolutely essential to bridging the divisions that threaten to rip our democracy apart. It is this belief that has driven the Pulitzer Center for the last 14 years.”
Nikole Hannah-Jones, The Times’ lead writer on the project, argued in her introductory essay to it, “The United States is a nation founded on both an ideal and a lie. Our Declaration of Independence, approved on July 4, 1776, proclaims that ‘all men are created equal’ and ‘endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.’
“But the white men who drafted those words did not believe them to be true for the hundreds of thousands of black people in their midst.”
Hannah-Jones went on to contend “that the year 1619 is as important to the American story as 1776.”
That was the year, she explained, that British colonists in Jamestown purchased 20 to 30 enslaved Africans.
“Conveniently left out of our founding mythology is the fact that one of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery,” Hannah-Jones wrote.
The reporter is honest enough to admit that slavery in America predated the nation’s founding by over 150 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...
In the full article, Hannah praises Great Britain for ending one type of slavery in most of their colonies. What Hannah forgets is that it was Great Britain that brought the slavery in North America in 1619 on record. This was before the current United States came into existence in 1787.
Furthermore, this was not a race thing, but a "class" thing. The British purchased slaves from Africans and Asians who happened to be of the same skin pigment as their slaves. Both Africa and Asia had slaves dating back to 5,000 B.C. For example, Moses and the slaves in Egypt. It was not just in Egypt too.
Even the word the slave derives from slavic people that were a slave class and skin was white. Slavery was pretty much all over the world at the time, and today it is still around and practiced openly in some parts of Africa and Asia.
There are more slaves today, than there were in the past too. All types of slaves from sex slaves to working class slaves. That is not really being tought while they trash the U.S.A.
What is being taught is cherry picked data to make the U.S. look as bad as possible.
The reason why slaves were not immediately freed is because the Southern Colonies were mainly rural and the economy would collapse if that happened. The North needs States like Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia to defeat the British. The colonies were serfs to Great Britain.Anyhow, I will get off my soap box.
President Trump needs to overhaul the education system in our country. Aside from the Socialist/Communist Globalist curriculum to trash the United States. Students are being educated for a 20th Century economy instead of a 21st.
Yup, and the climate “science” they are taught is even more cr*ppy.
Standard rule 1 of the multiverse: EVERYTHING touched by a liberal/progressive turns to excrement.
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The first man killed in the revolution was a black man, Crispus Attucks, a PATRIOT! He was a former slave living in Boston.
Only a lie will satisfy a liberal.
I had these black racists in my high school in the south. everything they said was couched as American is racist.
Up your alley ping.
“In the full article, Hannah praises Great Britain for ending one type of slavery in most of their colonies.”
In 1833, some 57 years after the Declaration of Independence, and 50 years after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, which disproves the 1619 Project’s contention about the cause of the American Revolution.
One major thing to look forward to in Trump’s 2nd term, school reform. It’s a delicate issue that would not play well with low info suburban moms, so it will wait until his re-election.
Liberals?
The “Liberals” were once different from today. They were taken over and absorbed by the (lying) Left. They are like the devil, they exist upon lies and their favorite method is to twist the meaning of a term, hijack it for their own agenda and pretend it is good when it is pure Evil.
The Left? (Totalitarianism)
Totalitarianism in all forms is Evil:
Progressive
Socialist
Marxist
Fascist
Communist
Dictator
Islamist
Bureaucrap
ALL Evil.
Note, Capitalism is not in the list? It is not a form of government, it is a method of economic exchange.
The ‘ignorant Virus’ is far more deadly than any known disease. Unlike nany viruses, it was manufactured in the West.
At least have the debate whether it was a Revolution or (The First) Civil War?
These skulls of mush will suffer greatly in life ....
Sad.
The Revolution was sparked by New Englanders, who at the time couldn’t have cared less about slavery.
A black regiment of patriots from Massachusetts stormed the high ground at Yorktown and forced the surrender. They didn’t do it to preserve slavery.
Ha! It's about time some of you defenders of invasion were put on the same side you try to put the confederates on.
Now maybe you will grasp how it feels to have your entire movement portrayed as being all about slavery and nothing else. I told you the same arguments could be made about the Revolutionary War Patriots as were made about the Confederates.
We all know that their intent was Independence, and that Slavery was not the primary issue motivating them to fight for independence.
A taste of things to come. More propaganda deliberately distorting history.
Most outrageous is the abysmal knowledge of the teachers that bring this BS into the classroom.
How stupid does one need to be to be a teacher?
what is everyone’s plan to help stop the madness besides complain to each other...
Get your children out of public schools
Anthony Washington was a black farmer in mid 17th Virginia that had indentured servants and slaves of both races.
John Casor being one.
During Cromwell's reign of terror in Ireland more Irish slaves were sent to the Carribean than Africans.
At the time of the founding of this country there were more White Christians enslaved in Africa and the ME than Africans enslaved here.
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