On Monday, Nikole Hannah-Jones, founder of The New York Times‘ “1619 Project,” admitted that her project is not a history and that the battle over it is about “memory” — a fight to “control the national narrative.” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) has moved to defund schools that teach the project.
“The fight over the 1619 Project is not about history. It is about memory,” Hannah-Jones tweeted. “I’ve always said that the 1619 Project is not a history. It is a work of journalism that explicitly seeks to challenge the national narrative and, therefore, the national memory. The project has always been as much about the present as it is the past.”
I’ve always said that the 1619 Project is not a history. It is a work of journalism that explicitly seeks to challenge the national narrative and, therefore, the national memory. The project has always been as much about the present as it is the past.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) July 27, 2020
She claimed the 1619 Project “never pretended to be a history,” but said it involves “using history and reporting to make an argument.”
“The fight here is about who gets to control the national narrative, and therefore, the nation’s shared memory of itself. One group has monopolized this for too long in order to create this myth of exceptionalism,” Hannah-Jones added. “If their version is true, what do they have to fear of 1619?”
The fight here is about who gets to control the national narrative, and therefore, the nation’s shared memory of itself. One group has monopolized this for too long in order to create this myth of exceptionalism. If their version is true, what do they have to fear of 1619?
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) July 27, 2020
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Word salad and dummy’s fo along with it. Cowards.
ReplyDeleteBeing the greatest, most productive, most advanced Capitalist country in the history of civilization is no myth.
ReplyDeleteHistory teacher here...its the most important ACCURATE project of slavery in American history...that is why the big government KKKs like Tommy Cotton Plantation want to dictate what we can teach...Stalin would be proud...
ReplyDeleteWith your first three words you negate every word that follows.
DeleteThis is the baloney that passes for academic excellence today, drilled into our children's heads as truth when it's actually poorly reasoned theory, if even that, certainly not worthy of prestigious awards or being made the basis of our legacy as a nation or people.
ReplyDeleteJust described the Democrat party as a whole
ReplyDeleteWe already knew that. We are way ahead of you libutards TRAITORS.
ReplyDeleteExceptionalism:
ReplyDeleteLike the Israelites who believed they were qualitatively better human beings than everyone else.
They believed their god wanted them to kill all other races.
Now that is exceptionalism.
And Jesus Christ set that record straight 2,000 years ago.