Debunking the 1619 Project
Exposing the Plan to Divide America
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Publisher Description
It’s the New “Big Lie”
According the New York Times’s “1619 Project,” America was not founded in 1776, with a declaration of freedom and independence, but in 1619 with the introduction of African slavery into the New World. Ever since then, the “1619 Project” argues, American history has been one long sordid tale of systemic racism.
Celebrated historians have debunked this, more than two hundred years of American literature disproves it, parents know it to be false, and yet it is being promoted across America as an integral part of grade school curricula and unquestionable orthodoxy on college campuses.
The “1619 Project” is not just bad history, it is a danger to our national life, replacing the idea, goal, and reality of American unity with race-based obsessions that we have seen play out in violence, riots, and the destruction of American monuments—not to mention the wholesale rewriting of America’s historical and cultural past.
In her new book, Debunking the 1619 Project, scholar Mary Grabar, shows, in dramatic fashion, just how full of flat-out lies, distortions, and noxious propaganda the “1619 Project” really is. It is essential reading for every concerned parent, citizen, school board member, and policymaker.
Customer Reviews
No Other Purpose But to Pacify the Right
I found the premise of this book to be resting on a false assumption. The assumption being the author believes the US was founded in 1619 rather than codified in 1776, and this assumption makes the entire 1619 study invalid. That assumption is wholly false. The author is stating the basic fact that slavery existed as part of colonial America. The founding fathers were slave holders before the Declaration of Independence was conceived as an idea or formalized as a written document. To categorically disqualify slavery as part of the institution of American values and culture is to ignore those colonial years when slavery was part of the English concept of supremacy over other cultures (Indian, Indigenous Australian, African, Indigenous Americans, etc.). This book is a pacification to those who would downplay the impact of slavery and its resulting institutionalized racism. But of course, 1 question is critical. When reading the reviews I noted there were only 2written review published, but the scale shows negative and neutral ratings. Why are those ratings/reviews inaccessible? Normally, readers can access all ratings even if there are no written reviews. I wonder why.
God bless Mary Grabar
Mary Grabar exposes the errors & lies of Project 1619 better than anyone else does, just like she did with Howard Zinn (that punk!). She makes it clear that Hannah-Jones deliberately misinterprets & cherry picks facts. We need more authors like Grabar