Posted on 06/13/2021 8:02:30 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
The New York Times published The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones that says the Revolutionary War was fought to preserve slavery. Slavery made the U.S. wealthy. The US original sin was racism. Our culture is built on racism and is an unchangeable part of our society.
The 1619 Project is based on CRT, cultural Marxist critical race theory -- only white racism matters and it is systemic in the U.S. It maintains that all blacks are victims (still slaves) and all white people are privileged oppressors (still masters). So there must be monetary and socialized atonement. This theory denigrates the black person as one who is unable to function without help from who? The rest of the world. The 1619 Project is a racist document.
Historians are finding many errors in the 1619 Project but the most glaring errors are what they are not finding -- what is missing. The 1619 Project history of slavery in the U.S. doesn’t mention that the Native American tribes had slaves when the Europeans came. In fact, slavery was the custom throughout recorded history worldwide. Instead, we’re told that US history starts with the arrival of the first ships with slaves to our shores. But where exactly did these slaves come from…?
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Uh...wrong. There's no evidence to support this - certainly not in the catalysts which sparked the conflict in the first place and certainly not supported by the discussions concerning slavery by the Founders as they sought to form a new government after the war.
Slavery made the U.S. wealthy.
Big time wrong since slavery has never existed in most of the United States. And a huge reason the North had an advantage in the Civil War was that it was far wealthier and more innovative leading to a stronger economy with a free market because slavery did not exist there at all for the most part. Slavery in the South greatly retarded economic growth by making things based solely on raw labor, there was little to no innovation because of this, and of course the labor was not earning wages and contributing to economic activity. The North vastly outproduced the South in agricultural products and construction - supposedly the "benefit" of slave labor.
The US original sin was racism. Our culture is built on racism and is an unchangeable part of our society.
Absolutely ridiculous. Racism is an evil that existed in the world before, during, and after the founding of the US...it has nothing to do with the US existing in of itself...it merely inherited what unfortunately existed in the world, and every society has unfortunately held that to some degree for thousands of years.
The 1619 Project ignored the most important development in Virginia in 1619—the first meeting of the House of Burgesses, the beginnings of self-government in the English colonies. That is what led to the later emergence of the United States as a republic (which included some states which regrettably had slavery and other states which did not have it, or in which it was insignificant economically).
If Kunte Kinte had gone East into the Middle East Slave Trade instead of West to America, Roots would have been called Stumps and been a one-chapter pamphlet. The Muslims believed in eunuch male slaves. And I can’t wait to have that discussion with a 1619 Project / CRT type.
Now c’mon, when you have an agenda you stick to it. Facts be damned.
How about if we offer repatriation to Africa for all descendants of slaves?
The Left won’t debate. They can’t meme. The idiots have shut off comments on their websites. Telling, ain’t it?
Bkmk
The map is just for the trans-Atlantic slave trade. There were also Muslim slave dealers taking Africans across the Sahara to the Middle East, and from East Africa to various destinations. Since that went on for a much longer period than the European trans-Atlantic slave trade, the number of people transported was probably far greater.
Supposedly when Kunta Kinte tried to escape after he was in North America, he was given the choice of having part of his foot cut off or his testicles cut off. If he had chosen the latter Alex Haley would not have been around a couple of centuries later to write a novel about him.
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The 819.5 project?
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Just pokin’ fun :)
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