How the 1619 Project slandered America
by
Gerard Baker
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
5/9/2020 4:38:50 AM
In the absence of traditional public examinations this time of year, as a result of you know what, here’s a little history quiz for you. What year marked the creation of the United States?
Most of you will probably answer 1776, the year of the Declaration of Independence. Credit might also be given if you said 1788, the date of the ratification of the Constitution.
You’d all be wrong. The correct date, apparently, is 1619.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
slsusnr 5/9/2020 7:06:31 AM (No. 405666)
"Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa," by Keith B. Richburg. A must read book.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mathman 5/9/2020 8:15:39 AM (No. 405740)
The 1619 project was a feeble attempt to replace Das Kaptial with a new version, replacing capital with skin color. What was left out of the 1619 fable was the historic fact that slavery was endemic in the world before 1619. The Egyptians had slaves. The Greeks had slaves. The Vikings had slaves. All God's chillun had slaves, with minor exceptions. Our historical records only go back 5,000 years, so we don't know much about what happened before that time. Even the Jews had slaves, with rules on how they could be freed! You could look it up.
And the Jamestown colony failed. Slavery really helped them, I guess.
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montwoodcliff 5/9/2020 9:16:45 AM (No. 405806)
READ THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ALL THE WAY THROUGH! The Founders had a lot to complain about with the King and The British. Protecting slavery was not on the agenda. This bitter, America loathing woman should not be allowed to get away with this 1619 screed. The same goes for the Times. That piece of trash that Hannah Jones wrote isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. The Pulitzer is worthless.
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jacksin5 5/9/2020 9:27:56 AM (No. 405815)
The Founders had a real issue getting all 13 colonies to ratify the Constitution, They used phrases like "All Men were created equal' hoping that future legislators would use this to abolish slavery.
Now for more History. In 1620, when the pilgrims landed, they were met by Native Americans, like Squanto, who had already been to England, and met a lot of the rulers of Europe before being returned to North America.
Christopher Columbus returned to Europe with slaves he captured in the Carribean. To pick 1619 is another attempt to keep the race hatred alive.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 5/9/2020 9:33:55 AM (No. 405821)
Some people simply hate America and will torture and enslave truth to make their fraudulent points.
I will admit that the history we are familiar with is often the best guess and opinion of historians. It is certainly subject to change when verifiable PROOF is discovered. However, you don't get to make up a new history, like a screenplay, and assert its accuracy, absent proof, because it is what YOU believe. That is historical fiction. Of course fictional narrative land is where the Left exists.
Jones got a Pulitzer. Whoopee. BO got a Nobel Peace prize for doing nothing.
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FormerDem 5/9/2020 10:56:04 AM (No. 405954)
I'm beginning to think these novel critiques are a way of changing the subject to cover up ignorance of subject matter, suited to the dilemma of "historians" who don't have any real interest in the experience of other groups but want prestige anyway. My most-liberal friend has a way of grabbing control of interactions by issuing challenges over pronouns and chiding people for Lack of Charity or making bizarre accusations. In fact this happens when her knowledge is deficient. She wants the center stage anyway. It is increasingly clear many "historians" know little about others, aren't interested, but want center stage and prestige anyway.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Mulhaven 5/9/2020 11:07:18 AM (No. 405970)
Colonists did not bring slavery to America. It already existed here. The American indians had slaves. There was slavery from the Queen Charlotte Islands to California. Indian bands fought each other and used captured enemies as slaves.
As far as the new white Americans are concerned, slavery was a phenomenon of the southern states. Also, indentured whites were brought from Europe to serve American masters. As several posters have pointed out, slavery was acceptable in the world.
America was in the forefront of the fight against slavery, not its promoter. Politically it was the Democrat Party that favoured slavery and supported the means to keep blacks suppressed. The Great Society was one means LBJ used. He said of it, "We will have these niggers voting for us for the next 200 years".
If the virtue signallers want retribution, they should pursue getting the Democrat Party disbanded.
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