Posted on 01/20/2021 7:33:56 AM PST by MtnClimber
President Trump created the 1776 Commission by executive order last year as part of an effort to counter the leftist narrative taking over our public schools. Unsurprisingly, the commission’s first report has been met with nothing but hostility.
Spurred in part by the New York Times’s ahistorical 1619 Project, the 1776 Report seeks to correct some of the central claims made by the 1619 Project’s authors and provide an answer to the Left’s overly negative interpretation of American history.
Contrary to what the 1619 Project might suggest, the American Revolution was not fought to preserve the institution of slavery, the commission says. Rather, America’s founders fully intended to put slavery on the path toward extinction and believed that the country was already heading in that direction.
The report continues: To take slavery out of its necessary context is to do a disservice to America’s principles. To be sure, slavery was an ugly reality that deeply stained this country’s character. But it was not a uniquely American evil, and its perpetrators ultimately failed to overthrow the value that defines America to this day: the Declaration of Independence’s claim that “all men are created equal.”
“Neither America nor any other nation has perfectly lived up to the universal truths of equality, liberty, justice and government by consent,” the report states. “But no nation before America ever dared state those truths as the formal basis for its politics, and none has strived harder, or done more, to achieve them.”
The 1776 Report’s goal is simple: It makes the case for the American founding and against the ideologies that seek to overturn it, such as identity politics. It does so quite successfully, which is why it should come as no surprise that the media are up in arms
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
The so called journalists at the NYT must be wetting their pull-ups.
“The media are lying... “
That’s enough, covers it.
Download it while you still can.
The Left is of course calling it RACIST!, ignoring that the vice chair of the group that authored it is professor Carol Swain, a black woman. With whom they could not prevail in a debate on this supposed racism.
“The media are lying about the 1776 Report”
This new English grammar thing considering companies as “they” is crazy, so I am stepping up to assert the same for a person.
After all, a person is a collection of billions of cells, just as companies are collections of people.
The Left survives on lies. The inspiring true story of this country is like a stake through their evil heart.
I got kicked off this to make room for Ned Ryun, no historian.
However, I got a better gig, the Board of Education Sciences, a 4-year position that Biteme cannot fire me from.
Thanks.
Since the enemydia give aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States of America, what else should they be expected to do?
A number of tears ago the NYT fired a whole slew of editors, so that means they are really free-wheeling it.
That’s year not tears.
bump
Media is the plural of medium.
The opening for that accusation was glaringly left in the report. Notice that in the lengthy discussion of the US Constitution, there is absolutely zero mention of, or explanation regarding, the 3/5 of a vote provision.
Unreasonable leftists that resist the truth will need to be ...
I hope you can share your experiences from time to time!
Sure. It meets 3x a year, apparently 15 ppl to review all national education stats. Let you know more when I know.
“Is vs. Are with Collective Nouns”
“A collective noun refers to a group of people or things that is treated as a single entity in speech. Committee is a collective noun. A committee is made up of multiple people, but the word itself is singular in form. In American English, collective nouns take is. In British English, collective nouns can take is or are.”
“The committee is considering the budget right now.”
“The audience is getting antsy.”
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/is-vs-are/
“Download it while you still can.”
It’s already gone!!!
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