Posted on 12/02/2019 3:01:05 AM PST by a little elbow grease
Top Historians Slam New York Times ‘1619 Project’ As It Infiltrates Public School Curriculum
Multiple historians slammed New York Times Magazine’s “1619 Project,” calling the reframing of history false and disturbing, as others are pushing for it to continue being added into public school curriculum.
The “1619 Project” is made up of multiple stories and poems about racism and slavery. It suggests America’s “true founding” was when the first slaves arrived in 1619 and “aims to reframe the country’s history.” Written by journalists and opinion writers, the project has already received criticism from many conservatives.
Historian and Brown University professor Gordon Wood called the project “wrong in so many ways.”
“I had no warning about this. … I was surprised, as many other people were, by the scope of this thing, especially since it’s going to become the basis for high school education and has the authority of the New York Times behind it, and yet it is so wrong in so many ways,” Wood said in the interview.
The “1619 Project” has already been implemented into some public schools around the country, like Chicago, and has lesson plans available for schools to begin teaching its student this reframed history.
Wood said no one approached him about the project and that “none of the leading scholars of the whole period from the Revolution to the Civil War” appeared to have been consulted either.
American Civil War historian and Pulitzer Prize winner James M. McPherson called the project lacking in “context and perspective.” Like Wood, McPherson was never made aware of the project until it came out.
“Because this is a subject I’ve long been interested in I sat down and started to read some of the essays,” McPherson said. “I’d say that, almost from the outset, I was disturbed by what seemed like a very unbalanced, one-sided account, which lacked context and perspective on the complexity of slavery, which was clearly, obviously, not an exclusively American institution, but existed throughout history.”
“And I was a little bit unhappy with the idea that people who did not have a good knowledge of the subject would be influenced by this and would then have a biased or narrow view.”
(snip) “ … I was surprised, as many other people were, by the scope of this thing, especially since it’s going to become the basis for high school education and has the authority of the New York Times behind it, and yet it is so wrong in so many ways,” Wood said in the interview.
The truth about slavery is that it was legal in this COUNTRY (the US) for 80 years (1783-1863), and in four years we’ll reach the point WHERE IT HAS BEEN OUTLAWED FOR TWICE AS LONG (160 years) - 1863-2023.
The “400 years” BS is just stewing race-hatred; chase down Britain, France, Spain, and Holland for that.
What you need to know about history: White people bad.
Tearing down statues and re-writing history. What a great idea. At some point, someone has to slam some Polonium in Soros’ neck and end, at least, some of this madness.
Interestingly, I saw a post from a guy I know, black guy, that was upset that his kids had a school project about the pilgrims. The teacher wanted them to write a story about what the trip would have been like, from a pilgrims perspective. He was rather upset as were some of his FB friends. He’s an ordained minister and the commenters also were rather clear in their beliefs in God. But, I can only assume they all think the Mayflower was a slave ship and not carrying people who were escaping religious persecution.
Amazing how little, so many, know.
Wonder if the 1619 Project will acknowledge that the colonies, as they were at the time, first slave owner was a black guy.
http://blackinamerica.com/content/272507/anthony-johnson-the-first-black-slave-master
Terrorists and 3rd world savages have and will continue to ruin to chip away at this country. But the Leftist, Liberal Hipster that believes and pushes agendas like this will destroy it.
*1619 propaganda ping*
That’s the whole point. The left WANTS to destroy this country. They’ll utilize whatever means to accomplish said goal. Remember that the issue isn’t the issue. The issue is the revolution.
"He (Orwell) found them succumbing to a theory he described as ''catastrophic gradualism.'' Propagated by defenders of the Soviet Union in all its ugliest manifestations, this theory held that purges, deportations and the secret police were the price of progress. If the advance toward the Communist millennium nevertheless turned out to be slow or imperceptible, that was laid to ''human nature.'' The popular (and Popular Front) formula, he noted, was ''You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.'' However, he added, if someone replied, ''Yes, but where's the omelet?'' the answer was likely to be ''Oh well, you can't expect everything to happen in a moment.''
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From the NYT 20 years ago
I don’t separate the English colonies from the United States that way. My ancestors were Americans in 17th century Virginia and Massachusetts. Some of them owned slaves. While I don’t feel guilt, I’m not going to say it doesn’t count and blame the Brits. It was us, a continuing political and social enterprise.
You need to read some history if you think the Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery in the USA. English, Irish, Italian and Chinese slavery in the USA continued well into the 20th century. My grandmother came to the USA from England in 1913 and worked as an indentured servant for six years to repay her sponsor, all with my toddler father in tow. I knew her and heard the stories first hand. I also heard the stories of my Irish sharecropper relatives whose lives were destroyed by Sherman despite the fact that they never owned slaves and never supported slavery. Unless you include these groups you simply cannot tell the “truth” about slavery in the USA.
Amazing how our complacency has allowed/is allowing this to happen.
And what could be considered, ironic, the very same people that are pushing this sh*t are aligned with people in other parts of the world....Africa, Middle East, Asia...that have an extremely active slave trade, as well all read this article and comment on it. Lets not forget about the human trafficking aspect of it as well, with girls being trafficked over our southern border to enter a life of prostitution or slave labor in a sweatshop.
The Left doesn’t seem to care too much about that.
Camp Bruno. In the news.
Using the left’s own language against them, slavery was a legacy of the empires that occupied what was to become the United States. There was unease and controversy about slavery from the country’s founding - many saw it as incompatible with our founding principles, but others said the states had the right to continue slavery. The United States eventually got rid of slavery. Capitalism helped to overthrow slavery. Karl Marx noted that the capitalist/industrial North fought against the system of the feudalistic South (something today’s leftists ignore).
When America separated from England wether to continue slavery was an issue. Prior to the separation from England many colonist opposed slavery. Slavery lasted exactly 80 years after America became independent from England. Painting slavery as a monolithic economic system widely accepted for 400 years is BS. It was the American Quakers that provided Wilberforce with the philosophical and scriptural underpinnings in his fight to end slavery in England. If it was so widely accepted why did the Quakers bother to oppose it? Slavery was not racial. The first legal slave owner in what is now America was Black. Slavery may have been “continuing political and social enterprise “ but it was not well liked, as a matter of fact it was distasteful to an awful lot of Americans, so distasteful we fought our bloodiest war to end it. Along with being political and social slavery was mainly economic!
At first she didn’t believe me. I showed her a few articles on my phone.
She had tears in her eyes. Her beloved Barack !
It’s incorrect to state that indentured servants were the same as slaves. An indentured servant signed a contract to work for a period of time in exchange for something; often passage to America, clear a debt, etc. Once the terms of the contract was met the indentured servant was a free man.
That does not make your grandmother a slave.
Slaves are property. Your grandmother was not property. Your father did not become property because he was your grandmother's son.
If YOU had read some history, then YOU should know that the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in the USA. Rather, the Emancipation Proclamation only ended slavery in the rebellious southern states who left the Union.
These people are just as bad in their completely unrealistic portrayal of history as someone like Francis Parkman was during the 19th century. Back then, Parkman and other writers created a narrative that legitimized the English, Protestant, and white nation and culture as supreme and above all other races or ethnicities. The conquest of America and the native savages was something like that in action. Nowadays, it is denouncing whites and blaming them for the origins of slavery and other evils.
I actually saw some of those men come back to Sierra Leone while I was there. We tried to talk to them about their time in Libya, but all of them disappeared as soon as they got back to Freetown. Much too difficult to track them down in the bush communities.
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