Author: Gerald Baker
The views of the Author are not necessarily the views of Enigmose
In the absence of traditional public examinations this time of year, as a result of you know what, here’s a little history quiz for you. What year marked the creation of the United States?
Most of you will probably answer 1776, the year of the Declaration of Independence. Credit might also be given if you said 1788, the date of the ratification of the Constitution.
You’d all be wrong. The correct date, apparently, is 1619.
This was the year the first slaves arrived in the British colonies of North America, and if the people who control most of the cultural conversation in America these days get their way, we should all see this as the true moment of the founding of the nation. The point, of course, is that it defines America as a nation built not on the lofty ideals of freedom and self-government laid out in the document written by the Founding Fathers, but as one built on the degradation, dehumanization and persecution of black people.
One whose economy owes its rise to global primacy not to entrepreneurial endeavor but to the efficiencies afforded by slavery. One whose whole history must be judged not in the round, with its injustices and failings set alongside its great contributions to human progress, but as a genocidal exercise whose sins must be expiated by today’s heirs.
The self-abasing historical revisionism received a significant cultural endorsement this week when Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary for an essay asserting exactly this argument. The essay formed the introduction to a lengthy work in the newspaper called The 1619 Project, the whole point of which was to reorder our understanding of American history along these most woke lines.
The crux of the argument is that the Revolution of 1776 was less about the colonists unburdening themselves of the imperial yoke and largely about a desire to maintain slavery, which they feared the British were about to abolish. Full Article - NY Post
Alex Haleys 1967 Roots saga was popularized by a television mini-series in the 1970s. He claimed it to be a true portrayal of his families History based on his painstaking research. In fact he dedicated the last chapter at the end of the novel describing his so-called research.
Harold Courlander author of a different 1967 novel The African claimed that roots was a thinly veiled Plagiarism of his work. Before the trial ended Haley settled with Courlander for the sum of $650,000. The presiding judge in Courlander's Plagiarism suit stated, Alex Haley perpetrated a hoax on the public.
What is the 1619 Project
Hidden Agenda of the 1619 Project
The 1619 Project is an ongoing abomination focused on rewriting the history of Slavery in America, it was the brainchild of leftarded New York Times journalist, Nikole Hannah-Jones and developed by The NY Times Magazine in 2019 with the stated overt goal of 're-examining the legacy of slavery in the United States'. It was timed for the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans in Virginia. While its overt goal seems commendable, its covert goal is evident and reprehensible. Read More
A New American Civics Portal
Real Clear Foundation’s project will not shy away from the injustices that have taken place throughout our nation’s history—including slavery and racism those will be depicted rightly as departures from America’s founding principles.
The Real Clear Foundation has launched a new American civics education portal, dedicated to renewing civic education in the United States.
If one good thing has come out of this season of quarantine, it’s that parents, forced to homeschool, are getting to see the unpatriotic and liberal curriculum public schools are teaching. In a recent article at the Federalist, Beth Freeley wrote about a world history assignment on gender theory (parents raising “theybies”) and a physics assignment on critical race theory that her freshman received from his public school. Evidently, a supplemental source like Real Clear’s American Civics Portal could not have come at a better time.
Though the American Civics Portal is not a direct response to the New York Times’ “ 1619 Project” it is “more than an answer” it, David DesRosiers, publisher of RealClearPolitics, wrote in an email. Read More
Democrats are worried about black voters in November
Democrats worried about the Trump campaign black outreach efforts
On Saturday, the AP published an article describing Democrat worries about the Trump campaign team’s black outreach efforts. Democrats see that Trump is a Republican like no other, including his challenge to the Democrats’ decades’ long hold on black voters.
Democrats like to hide the fact that it was once Republican party that had the lock on black voters. The Republicans had earned that relationship. Read More
