The 1619 Project's claims as absurd as red meat being the centerpiece of American history
By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. - - Tuesday, April 27, 2021
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
According to The Washington Times — also known as the Good Times — last week the Biden administration made plans “to offer grants for U.S. history classes that teach critical race theory and the ‘1619 Project,’” which is a confection of The New York Times. Both critical race theory and the 1619 Project are based on the fundamental insight that slavery is, according to The Washington Times, “the centerpiece of the American narrative.”
Now, aside from the fact that there is not much a historian can say about people living in forced servitude for roughly 246 years, beyond that it was one of the gravest injustices in human history. Slavery was wrong when it was practiced here, and it took the Civil War to eliminate it. It has been wrong when it has been practiced in other countries, and it has been practiced in many other countries. Finally, it will be wrong if it is ever tried again, which I believe it has been tried again. Consider the plight of Uighurs in China.
Of course, there is another problem with critical race theory and the 1619 Project. They are based on fantasies. They are based on such exaggerations as the argument for “systemic racism.” The presidency of Barack Obama proved systemic racism is an exaggeration as does the presence of Black people in both political parties at pretty high levels.
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