America is unique among nations in being founded on a set of ideas and values rather than having a shared "Identity" based on "Blood and soil." The founding of America during the revolutionary era 1776 - 1787 was based on principles that provide the sinews of our national identity.
The "1619 Project" is described by Times editorial board member Mara Gay in the following words: "In the days and weeks to come, we will publish essays demonstrating that nearly everything that has made America exceptional grew out of slavery." In a formal statement, the Times editorial board elaborated: "The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims 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 creator of the 1619 Project, an African American Times staff writer, and pro-Castro leftist, has written an introduction to the project called "America Wasn't a Democracy Until Black Americans Made It One." The title reveals the thinly veiled racist attitudes of both the author and her project by suggesting that Blacks wrote the Declaration of Independence, created the abolitionist movement, drafted and financed the Union army, sacrificed 350,000 lives to win the Civil War, wrote the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, created and financed the NAACP and other civil rights organizations without major support from whites, and wrote and passed the Civil Rights Acts.
The actual history of slavery in America refutes this claim and tells an opposite story.
In City Journal, the American historian Allen Guelzo dismissed the Times project as a "Conspiracy theory" developed from the "Chair of ultimate cultural privilege in America, because in no human society has an enslaved people suddenly found itself vaulted into positions of such privilege, and with the consent-even the approbation-of those who were once the enslavers."
The anti-American animus of the 1619 Project is not inspired by the history of American slavery and emancipation, but by the anti-capitalist and anti-white racism of the projects' authors.
These enemies are legion because tyrannies around the globe hate democracy in general and America in particular, as the most tolerant and most inclusive nation among all nations with large internal minorities.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/02/dh-wednesday-lead-hate-america-project-david-horowitz/
The "1619 Project" is described by Times editorial board member Mara Gay in the following words: "In the days and weeks to come, we will publish essays demonstrating that nearly everything that has made America exceptional grew out of slavery." In a formal statement, the Times editorial board elaborated: "The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims 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 creator of the 1619 Project, an African American Times staff writer, and pro-Castro leftist, has written an introduction to the project called "America Wasn't a Democracy Until Black Americans Made It One." The title reveals the thinly veiled racist attitudes of both the author and her project by suggesting that Blacks wrote the Declaration of Independence, created the abolitionist movement, drafted and financed the Union army, sacrificed 350,000 lives to win the Civil War, wrote the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, created and financed the NAACP and other civil rights organizations without major support from whites, and wrote and passed the Civil Rights Acts.
The actual history of slavery in America refutes this claim and tells an opposite story.
In City Journal, the American historian Allen Guelzo dismissed the Times project as a "Conspiracy theory" developed from the "Chair of ultimate cultural privilege in America, because in no human society has an enslaved people suddenly found itself vaulted into positions of such privilege, and with the consent-even the approbation-of those who were once the enslavers."
The anti-American animus of the 1619 Project is not inspired by the history of American slavery and emancipation, but by the anti-capitalist and anti-white racism of the projects' authors.
These enemies are legion because tyrannies around the globe hate democracy in general and America in particular, as the most tolerant and most inclusive nation among all nations with large internal minorities.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/02/dh-wednesday-lead-hate-america-project-david-horowitz/
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