Racist America? Countering the 1619 Project’s False Narrative

The American Spectator ^ | 2-29-20 | Ziva Dahl

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“1776 Unites” will offer its own K-12 educational materials and scholarly articles to put the history of racism in America in the context of a broader examination of our democratic principles and the institutions that nurtured the abolition of slavery. These provided the foundations for achieving individual freedom, equal rights, and opportunity for all — the promise of America. African-American scholars such as Glenn Loury, Carol Swain, John McWhorter, Jason Hill, and Wilfred Reilly will present stories of resilience and upward mobility, documenting the successes of black Americans — stories that while recognizing America’s failures, also celebrate her promise. They and other African Americans plan to provide an “aspirational and inspirational” counternarrative to the Times’ negative messaging, which discourages self-improvement and provides an excuse for failure. Loury, a professor at Brown University, said, “Something tells me [that the 1619 Project authors don’t] believe in America [and] they don’t believe in black people.”

Since it was published last summer, the 1619 Project magazine has evoked significant critical commentary from highly respected generally liberal academics. Civil War historian James McPherson said the Times presented an “unbalanced, one-sided account” that “left most of the history out.” Princeton University history professor Sean Wilentz highlighted “falsehoods, distortions, and significant omissions” by the project’s authors. American Revolution expert Gordon Wood characterized the material as “so wrong in so many ways,” arguing that there is no evidence to support the contention that America separated from England to protect slavery, but there is evidence, that, to the contrary, “the Revolution unleashed antislavery sentiments that led to the first abolition movements in the history of the world.” He expressed concern that “the NY Times would put its authority behind a project that has such weak scholarly support”

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It is nice to see that some Black academics are trying to counter the "1619 Project." Of course, the Libs controlling most K-12 schools won't pay any attention to this effort, but will instead simply continue to use the 1619 trash. Sad!

[IronJack]

He expressed concern that “the NY Times would put its authority behind a project that has such weak scholarly support”

Facts don't matter to liberals when there's an agenda to push. And there's always an agenda to push.

[Taxman]

The 1619 project is a manifestly racist project!

Am I the only one who finds it odd that the people behind the 1619 Project decry racism? While being racist?

[joma89]

Dark skinned Americans are the most racist among us.

JoMa

[Verginius Rufus]

Mary Beth Norton has a new book entitled 1774. According to one review I read it is very good--in depth look at the year 1774 which was a critical one leading up to the decision to declare independence. I caught a bit of her on C-SPAN 2 this morning--I don't know when that program will be shown again but it should be possible to watch it via the C-SPAN 2 website.

[Savage Beast]

What else would anyone expect?

Leftists/Democrats HATE the United States of America.

They consider the USA to be an evil, racist, nazi nation that must be destroyed, and that's exactly what they intend to do.

[Chode]

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https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/01/im-saddened-white-mans-emasculation-raymond-ibrahim/

Interesting article on Slavery which started way before they came to the Americas

[sauropod]

Sorry. That @$$hat John McWhorter has proven himself to be quite the tool.