Posted on 09/26/2021 7:56:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
There has been a great deal of consternation, anger, and vitriol the last two years arguing about two specific dates: 1776 or 1619. Most Americans, regardless of race, know what 1776 is about. Most Americans, regardless of race, do not know what 1619 is about.
Most Americans believe that in 1776 America declared independence from the mother country, England, and thus that was the birth date of our country: 1776. However, author Nikole Hannah-Jones, writing in the New York Times Magazine, recently declared 1619 to be the actual beginning of America, our supposed birth date. This is because 1619 is when the first slaves landed in what was later to become America. That author uses 1619 as America's birth date, to not just highlight the date of the first slaves into the colonies.
But much more importantly, she vigorously claims that because of this date, America has been evil since its inception. And that everything in America since 1619, is corrupt and damaged goods. She believes the United States is irredeemable because of 1619. To this day, The New York Times Magazine has still refused to correct mistakes and errors in their story on the 1619 Project. Why?
It is very important to really understand what the 1619 Project and 1619 date are all about. The author, Hannah-Jones is arguing that since America actually started in 1619 (not 1776), that date when the first slaves arrived into the yet independent United States, then actually America's birth is evil from the crib. Evil from birth. Evil from inception. And thus is unjustifiable to remain.
Some argue the author is using 1619 to support and endorse reparations for the descendants of slaves in America. In other words, Hannah-Jones wants the federal government to "pay up" to the decedents of slavery.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The basic thesis of Hannah-Jones’ 1619 Project is wrong from the beginning. It is just not historically factual and cannot be justified by the events of history. The author claims that the colonists sought independence from Great Britain because the colonists “wanted to protect the institution of slavery”. Wrong.
The author claims that Great Britain was about to outlaw slavery in the colonies, so the colonist got ahead of the curve, and claimed independence so they could keep slavery in the Americas. Just plain wrong.
The 1619 Project is much more of a political treatise than a historical factual thesis. It is “blame America first” politics not factual U.S history.
The period before 1776 was very multicultural: English, Dutch, French, zSpanish, Portuguese, etc. The libs should celebrate this.
The 1619project is nothing but lies
and who owns The New York Times Magazine? And who owned all of the slave trading and transport companies?
Oh, better not mention that or we’ll be considered to be anti-something.
I sure wish them old timers has cut their own tobacco. Sure would have saved us a lot of troubles.
It matters
What I read is we should have picked our own cotton and other crops.
Neither. The real founding of American Exceptionalism was 1620 with the Pilgrims. They were the first in human history to START a society with the four pillars of American Exceptionalism
*A Christian/mostly Protestant religious foundation (bottom-up congregational structure)
*Common law (bottom-up governance)
*Private Property with written titles & deeds (came within a year)
*a free market system (came in 1630)
Note: no slavery.
I have ancestors who fought in the Revolutionary War or gave material support to the Continental Army. None of them owned slaves.
Slavery was reintroduced to Africa by the muzzies.
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