Students in All 50 States Being Taught Revolutionary War Was Fought To Promote Slavery

https://thefederalistpapers.org ^ | January 6, 2020 | Randy Desoto

[NKP_Vet]

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.’

[NKP_Vet]

Lies promoted by bleeding heart revisionist academic liberals. Home schooling is the only way to get your children away from the brainwashing.

[rktman]

It wasn’t?

[ASOC]

I am watching my country being stolen right in front of my eyes.

[yarddog]

There are a fair number of those liars here on FR.

Not sure if they are idiots, liars, or just ignorant. Whatever, they lower the quality of this forum.

[BobL]

Make that 49 states, since Texas (and certainly MY school district) would NEVER let garbage like that get taught.

[vetvetdoug]

The North has been so perverted in liberal history that repositories of historical data has been moved to safer and more accessible locations. The second most voluminous aggregation of Lincoln Memorabilia is in Harrogate, Tennessee, and the third in Starkville, Mississippi. The U.S. Grant Presidential Library is now located in Starkville, Mississippi. Not to say that these academic liberals are not invading the South but their presence is being felt.

[cnsmom]

What about the Quartering Act and Stamp Tax.

[DoughtyOne]

A nation that had slaves themselves at that time, were not here to end slavery.

We were not fighting to continue slavery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833