Posted on 10/12/2020 10:41:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
Leftists have launched what they hope can be their final assault on America. Their goal is to obliterate everything good that America ever did or aspired to achieve, erase its citizens’ memories and sow the seeds for future generations to revile and reject everything that is decent and noble in our country.
They intend to fundamentally change America’s historical narrative away from events and circumstances that made our country the world’s beacon of hope for freedom and representative government. They intend to replace well-documented reality with a false narrative of America being the scourge of the world, based on its enslaving and stealing from minorities to enrich and aggrandize white ruling elites.
Their plan is called the “1619 Project,” an alternative history curriculum for American elementary and secondary students. It was announced in July 2019 with a series of front-page stories in the New York Times, and other major newspapers, explaining its content and the need to:
“reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.”
The 1619 premise is: “Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written.” Everything that happened in American history flows from the “original sin” of slavery. Every concept, document and institution that shapes and guides America was actually designed to promote slavery and therefore must be eradicated to atone for centuries of racial oppression.
1619 proponents declare that we must “make amends” for America’s crimes against humanity by eliminating monuments, the Electoral College, the Senate, Supreme Court justices, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, federalism, capitalism, and all vestiges of white history and culture. Even hard work, objective thinking, the scientific method, self-reliance, being polite and two-parent families are the product of racism and “white dominant culture, ”according to a document that has since been removed from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
The 1619 Project is partnering with those who deem the American Flag, Pledge of Allegiance and National Anthem to be offensive vestiges of racism, slavery and white privilege.
We could ignore the 1619 Project if it were simply the ravings of a coddled leftist professor in some Ivy League sinecure. But it is not, or at least it is no longer.
The New York Times leads an array of news media, academic, think tank and public officials who see the 1619 Project as the final solution for turning America against itself. Once they indoctrinate the current generation of elementary and secondary school students with (even greater) hatred for America, drowning out and canceling dissenting voices with charges of racism and white privilege, they will have free rein to establish a permanent totalitarian socialist state.
The 1619 Project was embraced by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who led members of the Congressional Black Caucus to Ghana during the August Recess. They wanted the 1619 narrative of the first African slaves arriving at Jamestown to upstage commemorations of the first session of an elected government at Jamestown. To succeed, the 1619 Project must ignore mountains of facts and fabricate mountains of lies.
The centerpiece of the 1619 Project is the false claim that slavery was a uniquely American crime, infecting everything and everybody it touched to the present day.
In reality, the capture and enslavement of defeated foes and “inferior” people is as old as humankind. Slavery was integral to establishing regional dominance for the Egyptian Pharaohs, Muslim Emirs, Roman Emperors and countless other rulers. The Western Hemisphere’s great civilizations of the Mayans, Incas and Aztecs enslaved their subjugated people for labor and ritual sacrifice.
African rulers trading their slaves to Muslims or other Africans, and then to Europeans, was born from improved sailing technologies and the need for cheap, forced labor. The 1619 Project ignores the fact that only 9.7 percent of the Atlantic slave trade involved England’s North American colonies; 90.3 percent of African slaves were shipped to South America and the Caribbean.
The 1619 Project ignores that while 12 million West Africans were shipped by Europeans to the Americas, over 17 million East Africans were shipped by Arabs into the Middle East. The 1619 Project ignores the fact that the American colonies began banning slave importation in 1778, during the Revolutionary War, leading to a formal (largely ignored) ban for the entire United States in 1794.
England did not ban slavery in its colonies until 1807. Meanwhile, the Arab slave trade in East Africa was not eradicated until England destroyed the last slave forts in Zanzibar in 1909. Slavery remains active, if officially banned, in much of the Arab world today – as well as in parts of Africa, in the Chinese and Russian penal systems, and in China-run mines in the Congo, where 40,000 children labor for $1-2 a day.
The year 1619 is important, not because slaves arrived in the new world, but because for the first time in the Western Hemisphere, a free people elected representatives to govern and be held accountable in subsequent elections. This was the first step to America becoming the most exceptional civic culture in world history. That is the true 1619 lesson that leftists want to expunge.
The Left and New York Times would also have us believe that black Americans are in lockstep with Nikole Hanna-Jones and other authors of the divisive, revisionist 1619 pseudo-history. The claim helps drive their anti-American agenda. But it is false.
Pretty good encapsulation of what the 1619 project is all about.
Just imagine the world without socialism and the left. There would be so much more happiness, so much less suffering, and so much more progress.
That too.
No way Trump won’t win.
If Biden were in there, there’d be invisible strings moving him around and a ventriloquist when he moved his mouth. Most likely he’d meet some terrible “accident” so Heels Up up could come in and quickly take America down.
The Jacobins, like the Leftwing Academics today, are examples of what happens when pseudo intellectuals, without any sense of constructive purpose, have too much free time to meddle with other people’s lives.
The very notion of “assaulting America” is repugnant to me. Assault my liberty?
I recognized the 1619 project for what it was immediately. I think most did. The Southerners who wanted slaves to do their farmwork were opposed by Northerners who eventually fought a civil war to make things right.
This confirms what I told my kids while they want to college:
Your goal in college is to get a grade so you can get a degree so you can get a job. Forget about learning. You can learn on your own time. Forget about arguing with the professors. You can win debates on your own time after you graduate. Suck up to your professors and do whatever it takes to get a good grade.
A short and quick history lesson and basic math.
1781, September 28
Battle of Yorktown begins:
On September 28, 1781, General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary War
America was not an evil country in the 1600’s to the late 1700’s. It didn’t exist in 1619 or most of the 1700’s.
Peace negotiations with England began in 1782, and on September 3, 1783, the Treaty of Paris was signed, formally recognizing the United States as a free and independent nation after eight years of war.
Basic math and history!
Jamestown, Va. 1619 “20 Negroes” arrive on Dutch man of war ship. The Africans were not ordered and were traded for food and provisions for the crew of the Dutch man of war ship. Most were listed as indentured, not slaves.
In September 3,1783
We won the war, 164 years later, with England.
We were not a nation in August 1619. Jamestown was not even officially a Brit colony in 1619. Any slavery before 1783 was on England’s record. Most if not all of those 1619 Africans were indentured servants not slaves. Many like my ancestors were listed as Free Slaves in the censuses from the 1700’s.
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Thanks.
The link below describes a lot of what happened:
Treaty of Paris Terms
https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/treaty-of-paris
The British wanted to end the costly war, but peace negotiations stalled when England wouldn’t recognize United States independence – a point on which the American delegation refused to budge. After the election of a new, more pro-American Parliament, Great Britain soon gave in and accepted terms of American independence.
Treaty of Paris Terms:
In 1782, the newly elected British Prime Minister Lord Shelburne saw American independence as an opportunity to build a lucrative trade alliance with the new nation without the administrative and military costs of running and defending the colonies.
As a result, Treaty of Paris terms were very favorable to the United States with Great Britain making major concessions.
The treaty, signed by Franklin, Adams and Jay at the Hotel d’York in Paris, was finalized on September 3, 1783, and ratified by the Continental Congress on January 14, 1784.
Here are the key terms of the Treaty of Paris:
Great Britain finally gave formal recognition to its former colonies as a new and independent nation: the United States of America.
Defined the U.S. border, with Great Britain granting the Northwest Territory to the United States.
Secured fishing rights to the Grand Banks and other waters off the British-Canadian coastline for American boats.
Opened up the Mississippi River to navigation by citizens of both the United States and Great Britain.
Resolved issues with American debts owed to British creditors.
Provided for fair treatment of American citizens who had remained loyal to Great Britain during the war.
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