September 7, 2020 By Andrea Widburg
On
Friday, the Trump administration stopped federal agencies from using
taxpayer dollars to force employees to attend anti-white critical race
theory seminars. He's now eying even bigger fish: Trump has promised
that the Department of Education is looking into schools that have
integrated the 1619 Project into their curricula so he can withhold
federal funds from those schools. "Looking into" is not the same as
doing something, but it's a good start.
The New
York Times' Nikole Hannah-Jones came up with the idea of the 1619
Project, which seeks to "reframe" American history to mark the year 1619
as the "true founding" rather than 1776 (the Declaration of
Independence) or 1783 (when Britain surrendered to the Americans). Her
choice of year is based upon the fact that the first Africans were
brought to America as slaves in the year 1619. Thus, the 1619 Project
has as its purpose cementing slavery as America's original sin.
Hannah-Jones
has admitted that the project has nothing to do with actual history but
is, instead, a form of "journalism" to change "the national narrative:..........To Read More....
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