Posted on 09/23/2020 12:36:31 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
Not content with aiming to rewrite American history with its 1619 Project, The New York Times and project chief Nikole Hannah-Jones are now trying to rewrite the history of . . . the 1619 Project.
Hannah-Jones won a Pulitzer Prize for her piece kicking off the series, which explicitly aimed to make the first slave’s arrival on these shores the seminal event of US history — to paint “1619 as our true founding.”
“Out of slavery,” one Times editor explained, “grew nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional: its economic might, its industrial power, its electoral system.” Even the American Revolution was fought mainly to preserve slavery.
Yet now, apparently to dodge increasing criticism from President Trump and others, she’s now insisting: “The #1619Project does not argue that 1619 is our true founding” — for claims to the contrary, blame “the right.”
Huh? She’s on the public record at plenty of appearances, such as an Ann Arbor event, saying the project asserts “our true founding is 1619 not 1776.” And the 2019 print edition of the project’s introduction says of the moment in 1619 when a ship with enslaved Africans arrived on our shores: “America was not yet America, but this was the moment it began.”
That line no longer appears in the online version, so the entire Times is a part of Hannah-Jones’ scheme to falsify her record.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Not a single, solitary word of that has a grain a truth to it. Economic growth was greatly inhibited by slavery.
A line you will never hear or see by dems,especially black dems........
If Africa had not sold it’s own people in exchange for wealth,there would have been no black slaves for anyone to buy.....BUT AFRICA’S GREED DESTROYED BLACKS,NOT SLAVEOWNERS......
The idea that slavery produced “economic might” is simply laughable.
It was a failed economic system, enforced on individuals by state power, to benefit a relatively few people. It didn’t produce great industry, it was commodity-based on a few agricultural crops.
By 1860, the North had 2.5X the railroad length. The North produced 17 times more cotton and woolen textiles than the South, 30 times more leather goods, 20 times more pig iron, and 32 times more firearms. The North produced 3,200 firearms to every 100 produced in the South. Only about 40 percent of the Northern population was still engaged in agriculture by 1860, as compared to 84 percent of the South.
Yes, indeed. Africa was just as responsible for the slave trade as anyone else - they were the selling their own slaves - they owned other Africans as slaves and also owned many whites as slaves.
Slavery is and was evil - that should be a universal truth - but apparently, it isn’t actually evil to these people, but something to be used as a narrative.
Indeed - you saw that with BLM recently purging its website of its beliefs in wanting to dismantle the family.
Yes - the North was much more economically powerful. And as you correctly note 40% of the Northern Population was involved in agriculture vs. 84%, the North was still vastly outproducing the South in agriculture. Innovation, free market, that the South did not have. Slavery is not free market capitalism.
‘Even the American Revolution was fought mainly to preserve slavery.’
This howler should be spiked every time it appears. Some commie ignoramus started the meme that the Revolution was sparked in part due to fear in the colonies that Parliament would soon ban slavery. Since slavery was not abolished in the British empire until the 1830’s and the slave trade was legal until 1807 this claim is pure fabrication.
This is a very important editorial.
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/41431
A nice brief summary.
Correct, in comparison with china and Japan the USA was vastly better than any other “civilization” that had beed around for millennia entirely de to the history of freedoms which existed in the Western tradition and in its greatest manifestation in the United States.
I’m more inclined to check out the 1620 project - the Mayflower Compact, and the history of early American Voting.
The population shift in Britain was such that many in the House of Commons basically represented nobody. To allow the colonies in and reset the representation in Britain, where huge numbers would lose their seats, was something they were not going to do.
The colonies were going to have to fight. Even if the tea were cheaper with the British tax.... they weren't going to pay the tax.
This generally inaccurate statement appears to be grounded in very poor scholarship by using to widely available texts, ‘Capitalism and Slavery ‘ by Sir Eric Williams and “Sinews of Empire, A short History of British Slavery’ by Michael Craton, and transposing their British oriented theme wholesale into the narrative of American economic development. While there was some part of the capital accumulation necessary fund the beginnings of both finance capitalism and manufacturing was generated by trade in slaves and trade with the ‘sugar islands’ it appears insignificant beside the degree to which the same processes in Great Britain were financed by the profits from the sugar islands in the 18th century. This sort of crude propagandizing and deliberate misrepresentation or suppression of evidence that doesn’t support the 1619 thesis ought expel the academics that push this narrative from the ranks of serious scholar.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
George Orwell
And still is as there are many decedents of slavery that we still have to drag behind us.
Fake News New York Times.
Messed up their “facts”
The Civil War started with five slave states in the Union.
Maybe, the war was not about Slaves?????
At the start of the Civil War, there were 34 states in the United States, 15 of which were slave states. ..... The slave states that stayed in the Union, Maryland, Missouri, Delaware, and Kentucky (called border states) remained seated in the U.S. Congress.
I drew a political cartoon of Uncle Sam dragging a ball and chain behind him labeled “Slavery”. Pookie18 published it for and you can see it here:
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,413956.0.html
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