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That isn't stopping New York Times Magazine from launching an interactive website that declares its mission to revise American history as we know it and tell it from a viewpoint that can only lead its readers to assume that America is terrible, has always been terrible, and, without some sort of political revolution, will continue to be terrible.
The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery.
It also cannot logically be argued that America hasn't come a long, long way since slavery was introduced into the American colonies, nor can it be argued that America has gone far enough in washing the stink of the institution from our society.
Even if you were to assume the worst of America's history of racial inequality and treatment, it requires still an even further and more impossible leap to take you from there to calling the founding principles of America an outright lie, given all of the evidence we have of the Founders and their beliefs in liberty.
The delegates to the constitutional convention who favored slavery were those in the southern states, where slavery was most prevalent.
For decades, many liberal historians and activists have worked over and around not just the personal documents of the Founders but much of the outwardly expressed public sentiment of revolutionary Americans, all in an effort to declare that the founding of America was a business proposition, a special interest project of slave owners and businessmen meant to benefit them at the expense of black slaves and poor farmers.
https://www.redstate.com/joesquire/2019/08/19/new-york-times-magazine-declares-war-america-history/
That isn't stopping New York Times Magazine from launching an interactive website that declares its mission to revise American history as we know it and tell it from a viewpoint that can only lead its readers to assume that America is terrible, has always been terrible, and, without some sort of political revolution, will continue to be terrible.
The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery.
It also cannot logically be argued that America hasn't come a long, long way since slavery was introduced into the American colonies, nor can it be argued that America has gone far enough in washing the stink of the institution from our society.
Even if you were to assume the worst of America's history of racial inequality and treatment, it requires still an even further and more impossible leap to take you from there to calling the founding principles of America an outright lie, given all of the evidence we have of the Founders and their beliefs in liberty.
The delegates to the constitutional convention who favored slavery were those in the southern states, where slavery was most prevalent.
For decades, many liberal historians and activists have worked over and around not just the personal documents of the Founders but much of the outwardly expressed public sentiment of revolutionary Americans, all in an effort to declare that the founding of America was a business proposition, a special interest project of slave owners and businessmen meant to benefit them at the expense of black slaves and poor farmers.
https://www.redstate.com/joesquire/2019/08/19/new-york-times-magazine-declares-war-america-history/
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