First comes the abolishment of fake history, work Trump started toward the end of his hoax- and impeachment-beleaguered first term with the White House Conference on American History on Constitution Day 2020. Looking forward to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, he said that radicals burning American flags “want to burn down the principles enshrined in our founding documents. . . . In order to radically transform America, they must first cause Americans to lose confidence in who we are, where we came from, and what we believe.”
The summer 2020 rioting, which included attacks on historical monuments, was “the direct result of decades of left-wing indoctrination in our schools. . . . Our children are instructed from propaganda tracts, like those of Howard Zinn, that try to make students ashamed of their own history.” As one of the panelists, I drew upon my book, Debunking Howard Zinn.
As President Trump also said, the 1619 Project “rewrites American history to teach our children that we were founded on the principle of oppression, not freedom.” I was then writing Debunking The 1619 Project. I have monitored the creator, New York Times race reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones, since the initial project came out in August 2019 as a special issue of the New York Times Magazine accompanied by a newspaper supplement. Hannah-Jones presented 1619, when the first Africans arrived in Virginia, as her own discovery and aims to replace 1776 with 1619 as the year of our founding—of a “slavocracy.”
Hannah-Jones and an interlinking network of nonprofits and for-profit companies have found a “cash cow” in the 1619 Project. By 2021, two spin-off books—a children’s book and an expanded collection of writings and art, had been published by Penguin Random House. Films were produced by Oprah Winfrey. Hannah-Jones was garnering speaking fees averaging $25,000 at universities on a twice-monthly basis. By January 2022, she was commanding $55,000 to appear at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
These are veritable lovefests. Hannah-Jones refuses to engage in scholarly debate. When I revealed that she had admitted on Twitter that slaves were not “kidnapped” by Europeans but were bought from African chiefs, she blocked me after accusing me of affirming “white supremacy.”
She applies the same racial interpretation to current events. On CNN, she justified the 2020 riots as necessary to make white Americans “confront” racial injustice and on MSNBC categorized them as part of black Americans’ historical push “further to democracy.” On public radio, she called the January 6, 2021, protest an “insurrection,” and to “hold onto white power,” as she elaborated, upon receiving an award from the Roosevelt Institute…..
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