A wide-ranging group of writers from ideologically diverse backgrounds has come together to challenge leftist assertions in the New York Times’s 1619 Project that the United States was built on slavery. In response, the educational series 1776 was recently launched by the Woodson Center under the guidance of longtime activist and scholar Robert Woodson.
The Woodson Center was founded in 1981 to raise awareness and funding for neighborhoods seeking to solve critical community problems through innovative initiatives. Robert Woodson began 1776 as a direct response to the misguided and harmful history put forth by the Times.
Woodson described the 1619 Project as a “lethal” narrative that perpetuates a culture of victimhood in the African American community by claiming that life for blacks in America has been predetermined by slavery and Jim Crow.
“This garbage that is coming down from the scholars and writers from 1619 is most hypocritical because they don’t live in communities [that are] suffering,” said Woodson. “They are advocating something they don’t have to pay the penalty for.”
Glenn Loury, economics professor at Brown University and 1776 contributor, added, “The idea that the specter of slavery still determines the character of life among African Americans is an affront to me. I believe in America, and I believe in black people. Something tells me … the 1619 Project authors don’t. They don’t believe in America … and I’m sorry to have to report, I get the impression they don’t believe in black people.”
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The left ..They believe in luciferianism. Hate, lies, deception, conflict, and death is their core tenants.
ReplyDeleteI believe the elites continue this propaganda because they know most black Americans are not intelligent enough to understand history. For instance, it was obviously black people who sold black people to the Jews of the East India Trading Company. Otherwise, how would the white slave traders gather the blacks?
ReplyDeleteDuh
If they “built” America, why didn’t they build anything comparable back home in Africa?
ReplyDeleteHow could they know how to “build” anything they hadn’t ever been exposed to, previously?
Theiy hadn’t even discovered the wheel or developed a written language. Don’t try to tell me they could build a whole country..