Article from Reason by Robby Soave.
The 1619 Project—The New York Times Magazine‘s much vaunted series of essays about the introduction of African slavery to the Americas—will now be taught in K-12 schools around the country.
School districts in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Buffalo, New York, have decided to update their history curricula to include the material, which posits that the institution of slavery was so embedded in the country’s DNA that the country’s true founding could be said to have occurred in 1619, rather than in 1776.
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Many historians, though, have questioned The 1619 Project’s accuracy. Five of them penned a letter to The New York Times expressing dismay “at some of the factual errors in the project and the closed process behind it.” These historians said the project’s contention that the American Revolution was launched “in order to ensure slavery would continue” was flat-out wrong.
Another historian, Phil Magness of the American Institute for Economic Research, has criticized Matthew Desmond’s 1619 Project essay, which claimed that modern American capitalism has its roots in plantation slavery. Magness has persuasively argued that this claim lacks verification, and that Desmond relied on bad data about cotton-picking rates in the pre-Civil War south.
Read the entire article at Reason.
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Anything produced or supported by the NYT should be subject to extreme scrutiny because they are proven members of the fake news club. The NYT has falsified so much over the years they are not trustworthy to provide factual information of any kind.
The 1619 project reminds me of Orwell’s 1984 and the rewriting of history to support False ideas. Teaching history as written by the 1619 group should be stopped before it screws up kids minds and makes them potentially screwed up mental cases as adults.
Modern capitalism had it’s roots in the medieval system which was land based but to say that it was to protect slavery where slavers favored the British in the south and central areas (Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey) is ludicrous.
It’s not history, it’s bs propaganda.
I AGREE 1000%////SEEMS AS IF NYT SAYS NOTHING BUT PURE ROT
The civil war was fought because the northern states were in serious financial trouble and did not want the south to succeed because they needed their money. Ending slavery in our country was just another reason for the civil war but preventing the southern states from succeeding and losing their money was the primary reason for the war. Insofar as slavery is concerned the fact is that African tribal leaders sold their brothers to the muslims who have always been and still are enslaving people and selling them. Sudan is a prime example. The muslims then sold the Africans to the merchants who brought them to various countries to be sold into slavery.
I wonder where my comment went?!?!
They will teach about slavery, but not about the Millions of deaths caused by COMMUNISM.
Any school that does not teach true history should have all funding pulled never to return.