As Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote in the 1619 Project’s lead essay: “Anti-black racism runs in the very DNA of this country.”, In Woodson’s view, the 1619 Project inculcates the “diabolical, self-destructive” idea that “all white Americans are oppressors and all black Americans are victims.”, “Though slavery and discrimination undeniably are a tragic part of our nation’s history,” Woodson notes, “we have made strides along its long and tortuous journey to realize its promise and abide by its founding principles.”, Woodson continues: “People are motivated to achieve and overcome the challenges that confront them when they learn about inspiring victories that are possible and are not barraged by constant reminders of injuries they have suffered.”. Every December, the botanical gardens in my neighborhood have a spectacular event called “Garden of Lights.”. [1] 1776 Unites is supported by Robert Woodson, President and founder of the Woodson Center; academics including Carol M. Swain, Glenn Loury, Jason D. Hill, Wilfred Reilly, Shelby Steele, John McWhorter, and John Sibley Butler;[2] and other contributors including journalists Coleman Hughes and Clarence Page. ARTICLE V of the Virginia Constitution makes it clear, I read the recent obituary for Dr. Paul F. Krause and want to express my regard for the writer. About “1776”: ” 1776″ is an assembly of independent voices who uphold our country’s authentic founding virtues and values and challenge those who assert America is forever defined by its past failures, such as slavery. And it’s a lesson that Woodson knows firsthand. The concept was well-intended, and the execution of its first episode well-documented. The name they chose, “1776,” consciously echoes that of the New York Times’s 1619 Project, as it is intended to be an alternative. They established a tradition: Guarantee “inalienable rights” to some but also establish the legal mechanisms to extend those equal protections to others without — and this is important — taking those rights away from those who have them. This represents our collaboration with the Woodson Center to promote its new educational series, “1776.”. So what happened in 1776? Essayist Clarence Page reflects on Uncle Tom's Cabin, the classic novel and the historic landmark. Leftist SCOTUS plotter: “I manipulate the media better than anyone else on this phone call”. Radically pragmatic and unapologetically patriotic, we hope to speak for Americans of all races, creeds, and political convictions who oppose the efforts to demoralize and demonize our country and its foundations from within, and to turn its people against one another with false history and grievance politics. If this is what really happened in 1776, Silverstein’s either/or sounds plausible. Monae’s voice is one of many others lately seeking to stoke racial grievance rather than unite and uplift our country. The scholarly consensus of at least the last thirty years has been that early American political ideas were outgrowths of much earlier political and religious ideas, forming a distinctive “amalgam” of these preexisting materials. Similarities between Vance’s life and mine showed me how much we need to desegregate our poverty discussion, to learn across the lines of race and class the true causes of poverty and inequality — and, more importantly, what works to solve them. Carrie Sheffield is a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum. Former NFL running back Herschel Walker slammed former President Barack Obama’s outreach to the black community, arguing he did “nothing” to address racial issues during his administration. The most controversial aspect of the project has not been its content—apart from one important, mistaken historical claim in Nikole Hannah-Jones’s introductory essay, which has since been corrected—but its framing. Their incomes nearly doubled over that period (after inflation). NBC ran a doting headline about “Why Kamala Harris' nomination is pushing this academic idea further into the mainstream.” The idea is “intersectionality,” and it dates to a 1989 law journal article by Kimberle Crenshaw: “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex.” At its core, the intersectional insight is reasonable enough: If we look at racial oppression and sexism, it isn’t as simple as adding things up. In the main quad at the University of Missouri, just outside the building where Jefferson’s tombstone is currently housed, there is a statue of Jefferson sitting at a writing desk, pen in hand, and the, If this is what really happened in 1776, Silverstein’s either/or sounds plausible. Glenn Loury, an MIT-trained professor of economics at Brown University, is also part of our 1776 Project coalition, and offers his data-driven expertise on the state of black America. COMMENTARY: 1776 Project reflects America's true founding. The either/or falls away as the antislavery Jefferson of the Declaration collapses into the apparently pro-slavery Jefferson of the Missouri Compromise and 1776 collapses into 1619. The race gap persists, but it is much lower today than it was in 1950. There is also the fact that the core revolutionary idea that “all men are created equal” does not in any conceivable way support the interests of slaveholders, or even the interests of the non-slaveholding American revolutionaries at the time. Do they just love lockdowns? We know that Jefferson lived far downstream of 1619. He holds up the oft-forgotten achievements of blacks even against the grain of Jim Crow as “a powerful refutation of the claim that the destiny of black Americans is determined by what whites do or what they have done in the past.”. What do these parts of the project jointly convey? One of 1776’s leading scholars, Bob Woo Accuracy in Media This thoughtful and lucid reflection persuasively argues against the view that Americans are forced to choose between recognizing the evil of slavery and affirming the freedom principles of 1776. We hope you will enjoy these essays, beginning with the introduction to the series by Robert Woodson. . For example, slavery cannot become an explanation for social maladies that didn’t even exist as recently as the civil rights era. 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