#NotAllHistorians: Some White People Are Upset That the New York Times' 1619 Project Isn’t Centered in Whiteness
Monday, December 30, 2019
December 30, 2019 - From TheRoot
“For 400 years, we have been told that black people are a problem. We are indoctrinated into this lie from the moment we take our first breath. No people have been more legislated against and studied than black Americans. That is because our very existence in our country gives lie to the exceptionality mythology of our founders.
So, this year, to mark the 400th anniversary of August 1619, the year racialized slavery began in America, I created the 1619 Project to finally force a reckoning and to tell, within the pages of the most important news organization in the country, that virtually nothing in modern American life—socially, culturally, politically, economically or legally—has been left untouched by our decision to engage in chattel slavery...
In essence, the 1619 Project argues that it is black Americans—more than any other group—who are this nation’s true Founding Fathers.” —Nikole Hannah-Jones, at The 2019 Root 100 Gala
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