Jen Sorensen for February 09, 2021

Ya no, if the right is talking about cancel culture, ya no it is them doing it. Like when trump said Hillary would have the most corrupt administration ever, he was actually talking about his own. Right-wingers, the party of deflection and lies.

The 1619 project? Utah? I guess they will have slaves on the planets they will rule when they die!

The school reversed its policy so parents couldn’t opt out.

I wonder if they will mention that the Black President DIDN’T get impeached TWICE?

Just try telling the truth about American history (like Howard Zinn), the Orange Buffoon or Republicans in general. Try taking about economic class in this country and how the rich and powerful (the owners) run everything and don’t give a wet fart about the rest of us. Try talking about Occupy Wall Street, BLM or antifa. Try talking about the military industrial complex, big pharma or big banks.

1619 and Zinn. More important than ever.

So no one ever discussed slavery before the 1619 project was a thing? I seem to recall Roots being the most viewed miniseries in history back in the 70’s. But why let a little thing like reality interfere with your race baiting?

You can subjugate people if you own the history.

Do they mention Thomas’ wife is white?

I read the first panel and literally said WTF out loud. Fortunately, my kids weren’t around.

Seems to me she sees the principle just fine.

And that.. is American education. Little wonder the likes of QAnon have a following

There are a lot of parts of history I’d like to opt out of.

But that’s not how history works.

Clarence Thomas is a do-nothing on the SC.

Remember, Henry Ford, international BIGOT, once said that “History is Bunk!”

Roots was ‘the most viewed’ and highly discussed because it was (at least in my lifetime/recollection) the first time slavery had been put right out in front of white faces in a mass medium, all but unavoidable way. Forty-some years ago, plenty of time to have been all-but-forgotten. “1619” is just the “Roots” of contemporary times, calling AGAIN (because calling again is so clearly necessary) for mass confrontation with history.

Thomas is a “very good judge”? In what Universe?

Clarence Thomas who went over ten years without asking a single question in any hearing . . .

Wasn’t this one of those “For Profit Charter Schools” in Utah that favors religious teaching ? OMG. . . . ./S

Every 4 years we get one extra day of Black History, what else do you need ?

So, how does any nation reconcile with its minorities, if we never discuss the history? I seem to remember something along the lines of ‘if we don’t learn from history………………?’

The very definition of White Washing.

I was raised in Texas, took a semester of Texas history in 6th grade, another in high school, and another in college ( elective, figured it was an easy A). It wasn’t until I did some reading on my own that I learned that the Texans rebelled and the glorious, Alamo, of which all Texans are so proud was fought because the Mexican government had outlawed slavery. History is written by the winners, and they edit as needed to make themselves the heroes.

The 1619 Project is virulent historical revisionism and continues the trend in America of Anglification of History by erasing all Spanish mention from it.

The first Africans brought to America as slaves were by the Spanish in 1526. A colony was established near Georgetown, SC. When it was abandoned, the slaves were simply let loose where they were eventually taken by the Lumbee tribe. This history is still not taught in SC schools….