New 1776 Project Aims to Counter ‘Lethal’ Narrative of 1619 Project

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Washington Free Beacon

Cole Carnick

February 17, 2020

A group of predominantly African-American academics, journalists, entrepreneurs, and community activists on Friday launched one of the most significant challenges yet to the New York Times’s controversial 1619 Project, which is named for the year slaves arrived in Virginia and argues that the United States was founded on racism.

Bob Woodson, a leader in the African-American community who has spent his career fighting to stave off the cycle of poverty and crime, argued on Friday that the 1619 Project’s message—that life outcomes for African Americans are shaped by the history of slavery and Jim Crow—is a "lethal" narrative that perpetuates a culture of victimhood in the African-American community. During the launch of his new 1776 initiative, named for the year America was founded, Woodson said the new group would challenge those who assert America is forever defined by past failures.

While different academics and journalists have criticized the 1619 Project since its release last year, the 1776 project represents one of the largest coordinated challenges to the New York Times’s narrative. It will focus its efforts on opposing the negative impact the 1619 story will have on future generations of African Americans.

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Progressives today tell us All White People are Racist. A small question: Why was the Civil Rights Campaign so successful? Could it be that the Vast majority of White People turned their back on racial segregation? Could it be white people said something like...Well this is stupid, we're not going to do this anymore.

 

Just a thought

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After Backlash From Historians, NYT Forced To Issue Significant Correction To 1619 Project

Eric Quintanar

Mar. 13 2020

The New York Times has issued a significant correction to its 1619 Project, a series of articles that has wrought fierce backlash from historians for revising the historical relationship between slavery and the founding of the country.

n the August article titled “Our Democracy’s Founding Ideals Were False When They Were Written. Black Americans Have Fought To Make Them True,” Nikole Hannah-Jones, an investigative journalist who is not a professional historian, writes the following sweeping claim: 

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Conveniently left out of our founding mythology is the fact that one of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery.

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The update passage now states “the primary reason * some of the colonists decided to declare independence…”

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James McPherson, one of the United States’ foremost historians on the civil war, has lambasted the project for reducing the complexities of American history, saying that he was “disturbed by what seemed like a very unbalanced, one-sided account, which lacked context and perspective on the complexity of slavery,” reports the New York Post. 

James Oaks, an authoritative historian on the Reconstruction era, has blasted the historical revisionism required to assert that slavery is “built into the DNA of America,” saying that people who claim so are “ not only ahistorical, they’re actually anti-historical. The function of those tropes is to deny change over time,” reports the news agency. 

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*Some Change!