It is hard to think of a more divisive issue. This will only lead to more racial strife.
Some have called this "reparations"
Thomas Lifson "There seems to be no end to the destructive propaganda emanating from the Walt Disney Company. Tonight, its wholly-owned subsidiary ABC Television will be airing a two-hour documentary created by the infamous 1619 Project. The Twitter account of 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones, using the pseudonym Ida Bae Wells proudly announced the showing yesterday.
. . . "In a series of now-deleted tweets, Hannah-Jones admitted that the project is not history but is about the “narrative” – meaning propaganda intended to influence public opinion, and ultimately lead to anger and pressure for people who never owned slaves to pay money to people who never were slaves. Via Legal Insurrection:
I’ve always said that the 1619 Project is not a history. It is a work of journalism that explicitly seeks to challenge the national narrative and, therefore, the national memory. The project has always been as much about the present as it is the past.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) July 27, 2020
The crazy thing is, the 1619 Project is using history and reporting to make an argument. It never pretended to be a history. We explicitly state our aims and produced a series of essays. Critique was always expected, but the need to discredit it speaks to something else.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) July 27, 2020
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