As America-Hating Spreads, Slanted 1619 Project
Meets Competition From Black Academics

America was founded in 1776 on the idea that 'all men are created equal,'
the principle that led to slavery abolition and created the freest nation on Earth.







Author: Krystina Skurk Via The Federalist

The Bob Woodson Center and Washington Examiner is offering an alternative to The New York Times and Pulitzer Center’s “1619 Project.” Theirs is aptly named “The 1776 Initiative.”




Responses to the 1619 Project are popping up everywhere. Countless conservative scholars have weighed in, both Civil War and founding-era historians have teamed up to cry foul, Hillsdale College is offering an online course to counter the narrative, the Heritage Foundation has compiled a trove of essays titled “1776: A Celebration of America,” and the National Association of Scholars has started a “1620 Project.”

The 1619 Project Is Infiltrating Institutions

Responses can’t come soon enough. Despite criticism, the 1619 Project is barreling ahead. The New York Times purchased ads that ran during the Super Bowl and the Democratic primary debates.

School districts all around the nation are accepting the free 1619 curriculum from the Pulitzer Center to use in classrooms. According to Pulitzer’s Annual Report, it has successfully brought the 1619 curriculum to 3,500 classrooms around the nation. The CEO of Chicago Public Schools has pledged to send every Chicago high school 200-400 copies of the 1619 Project as a supplemental resource.

Four other school districts, including Washington, D.C., have adopted the curriculum district-wide. In most cases, the districts using the 1619 Project are bypassing normal textbook and curriculum review processes, according to RealClearInvestigations.

1619 language and sentiments are also infiltrating our political and popular culture. In an early Democratic primary debate, former Texas Rep. Beto O’ Rourke said Americans should “mark the creation of this country not at the Fourth of July, 1776, but Aug. 20, 1619, when the first kidnapped African was brought to this country against his will.”

More recently, on Feb. 13, during a debate on the Equal Rights Amendment, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer mischaracterized the Declaration of Independence in 1619 fashion when he stated, “Our founders declared ‘all men are created equal’ in their Declaration Of Independence. Surely, no founder, if they were writing that document today, would have said ‘men,’ when men meant white, property-owning men.”

Even more recently, Democrats in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson’s home state, changed the name of an annual dinner they host from Jefferson-Jackson Dinner to Blue Commonwealth Gala. Further, the media has embraced Nikole Hannah-Jones, organizer of the 1619 Project and author of the flagship essay. She has appeared on “The Daily Show,” “CBS This Morning,” “PBS Newshour,” and “The View.”

What Is the 1776 Initiative?

The 1776 Initiative is headed by Bob Woodson, a former civil rights activist, head of the National Urban League Department of Criminal Justice, and resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. The 1776 Initiative also has a plethora of well-known and respected contributors, such as syndicated columnist Clarence Page, Shelby Steele of the Hoover Institution, Glenn Loury, professor of economics and social science at Brown University, and many more.

The Woodson Center press release describes the contributors as a “consortium of top black academics, columnists, social service providers, business leaders and clergy from across America who are committed to telling the complete history of America and black Americans from 1776 to present.”

The 1776 Initiative Defends America’s Founding and Ideals

The primary thrust of the initiative is to counter the narrative that slavery is not just America’s original sin but also defines the nation’s foundational character. By reinforcing the idea that 1776 is the nation’s true founding, this new initiative reiterates that America was founded on the idea that “all men are created equal,” the very principle that eventually led to the abolition of slavery and created the freest nation on Earth. All essays within the 1776 Initiative can be read on the Washington Examiner’s website or at the Woodson Center’s website. Full Article @ The Federalist


What is the 1619 Project

Hidden Agenda of the 1619 Project

New York Times claims that the content was 'deeply researched', and verified by teams of fact-checkers in consultation with historians. However, nearly all reputable Historians on both ends of the political spectrum have renounced the project as factually inaccurate, blatantly biased and cynical.

Oxford historian Richard Carwardine: "the idea that the central, fundamental story of the United States is one of white racism and that black protest and rejection of white superiority has been the essential, indispensable driving force for change—which I take to be the central message of that lead essay—seems to me to be a preposterous and one-dimensional reading of the American past." Read More


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1776 Initiative Is Helping Turn Civics Education Around - Entrepreneur and civil rights movement veteran Robert L. Woodson Sr. believes that American civics can help save our country—and that’s the mission of 1776, a major initiative launched earlier this year by the Woodson Center, which Woodson founded to give local leaders the training they need to improve their communities.

Bob Woodson and the Birth of the 1776 Initiative - Amid the coronavirus and stock market dips is a correction—seven months overdue—of one of the many distortions and mistruths that permeate The New York Times’ 1619 Project.

Launched in August 2019, the 1619 Project offers a revisionist narrative of America’s founding. It argues that everything that has happened in our country can be traced to slavery and white oppression.

One of the most glaring errors in the 1619 Project, and one which has since received only a minor correction, was Hannah-Jones’s historically inaccurate claim that the Revolutionary War was fought to preserve the institution of slavery.

A counterpoint to the 1619 Project, a much-needed one, is the 1776 Initiative..., its organizer and leader Bob Woodson, founder and president of the Woodson Center, and other 1776 Initiative individuals have worked tirelessly to expose the emptiness and dangers of the 1619 Project’s destructive message about perpetual black victimhood and unrelenting white racism.