(cont'd from yesterday's post)
Power-holders at the influential New York Times are in sync with Howard Zinn's textbook.
Calling it investigative journalism, they published (2019) The 1619 Project. The project's author, Nikole Hannah-Jones, doesn't want to teach history with it, but to force "white people to give up whiteness," to repudiate their own race. Or, if that can't be accomplished, then they should just pay money to black people (reparations).
It's not good history, as many historians have stepped up to say. A leading historian of the American Revolution says that The 1619 Project is a "displacement of historical understanding by ideology."
Hannah-Jones claims that the Revolutionary War (1776-5-1783) was not fought to win freedom, but to protect slavery. However, that historian says, when her facts are wrong and her interpretations are perverse and distorted, the project has no credibility: "Far from preserving slavery the North saw the Revolution as an opportunity to abolish the institution . . . We all want justice, but not at the expense of truth."
None of this kept the school systems of Chicago, Buffalo NY, and others from adopting the project as school curriculum.
(cont'd tomorrow)
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