"1619 Project" Seeks To Destroy America As We Know It
Posted: 09-15-2019 03:51 PM
Remember the controversy when President Obama said, "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." The New York Times appears to have endorsed Obama's view and gone a step further.
The newspaper's executive editor recently called a staff meeting to announce "The 1619 Project," named for the year the first African slaves were brought to Virginia. Someone recorded the session and leaked it to Slate, which published a transcript. The Washington Examiner reported on it.
No more America beginning with the Declaration of Independence, The Federalist Papers and the Constitution. The Examiner writes: "The basic thrust of the 1619 Project is that everything in American history is explained by slavery and race. The message is woven throughout the first publication of the project, an entire edition of the Times magazine."
One excerpt reveals their drift: "If you want to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation." Never mind that "brutal" capitalism has lifted more boats than any other economic system.
There's much more. We are led to believe America is evil, soulless, that those at the top have always exploited those at the bottom. There appears to be advocacy for bigger government, reparations and never-ending guilt for things we today had nothing to do with.
Is this what we want to impose on our children? Not satisfied with practicing what used to be called journalism, it appears the Times' ultimate goal is to change what is taught in public schools so children will no longer think highly of their country because of the "stain" of slavery, a stain more than paid for in blood and federal programs, which have attempted to lift some descendants of slaves out of poverty.
No wonder private and home schools are growing at such a rapid pace. The Times' attempt to shape history to fit its own biases is not journalism. If public schools follow its lead, they will begin to resemble schools in countries where freedom is not the prevailing tenet and antithetical to what the Founders gave us.
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The newspaper's executive editor recently called a staff meeting to announce "The 1619 Project," named for the year the first African slaves were brought to Virginia. Someone recorded the session and leaked it to Slate, which published a transcript. The Washington Examiner reported on it.
No more America beginning with the Declaration of Independence, The Federalist Papers and the Constitution. The Examiner writes: "The basic thrust of the 1619 Project is that everything in American history is explained by slavery and race. The message is woven throughout the first publication of the project, an entire edition of the Times magazine."
One excerpt reveals their drift: "If you want to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation." Never mind that "brutal" capitalism has lifted more boats than any other economic system.
There's much more. We are led to believe America is evil, soulless, that those at the top have always exploited those at the bottom. There appears to be advocacy for bigger government, reparations and never-ending guilt for things we today had nothing to do with.
Is this what we want to impose on our children? Not satisfied with practicing what used to be called journalism, it appears the Times' ultimate goal is to change what is taught in public schools so children will no longer think highly of their country because of the "stain" of slavery, a stain more than paid for in blood and federal programs, which have attempted to lift some descendants of slaves out of poverty.
No wonder private and home schools are growing at such a rapid pace. The Times' attempt to shape history to fit its own biases is not journalism. If public schools follow its lead, they will begin to resemble schools in countries where freedom is not the prevailing tenet and antithetical to what the Founders gave us.
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