Hey now, if it’s good enough for hulu...... Maybe they should run “Roots” right after. 🤔
1619 is lies, subterfuge, intentional confusions and misrepresentations.
People pushing Marxist comprehencions of history or race, or anything, really (including efforts to backend their ideas onto capitalism via stake holding) have nothing of value to say about anything.
Very few people understand the nature of the “Three-Fifths Compromise” and point to it as prima fascia evidence of the racism of the Founders. It actually had nothing at all to do with any perceived lesser value of slaves. It was in fact a purely political argument.
The census as required by the new Constitution served two purposes. It provided a count of population for the purpose of apportionment of representatives in the House and also for the purpose of taxation. The Constitution did not allow direct taxation of citizens; all taxes had to be levied in proportion to the population of the states.
Since most slaves lived in the southern states, the slave-owning delegates to the Convention wanted naturally to count the slave population fully, at least for the purpose of apportioning representatives. They wanted to have things both ways and not count slaves at all for the purpose of levying taxes. Lacking slaves, northern delegates naturally argues for the opposite- counting slaves fully for taxation purposes but not at all for the apportioning of representatives.
The compromise was that 60%, or three fifths for any public school graduates reading this, of the slave population would be counted for both purposes. It was strictly a political compromise and did not reflect any idea of anyone thinking of slaves as less than fully human.
Yeah, its a “oversight” in the sense of malicious slander.
The first political entities in the modern Atlantic world to abolish slavery were the northern American states, which was no mean feat: I believe that at the time of the Revolutionary War, New York was the second highest slave-owning state after Virginia.
Projects such as these are not an effort to inform, but to gin up hate.
This won’t end well.
It’s also ridiculous to look at Slavery as a North American (America didn’t exist in 1619) issue.
Unless you want to look at the slavery that existed in the Native American populations. That would be valid.
The 1619 Project has nothing to do with the truth. It is all about transferring power from the white majority to the non-white minority.
In America , whites , blacks , Jews, Asians , native Indians all owned slaves.
It’s was a real equal opportunity occupation
Bkmk
The 1619 Project is hate.