On 9/23/20 8:57 AM, Jacob Miller wrote:
‘The “true founding” claim was the core element of the Project’s
assertion that all of American history is rooted in and defined by
white racial hatred of blacks. According to this narrative, trumpeted
by Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones, the American Revolution was a
preemptive racial counterrevolution waged by white people in North
America to defend slavery against British plans to abolish it. The
fact that there is no historical evidence to support this claim did
not deter the Times and Hannah-Jones…’
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/09/22/1619-s22.html
This article is bullshit, just like everything else WSWS has written
about Project 1619. The NYT stopped referring to 1619 as the start of
slavery in the USA because there is significant debate over whether the
Africans brought to Jamestown were indentured servants or slaves. For
example, Nell Painter, an African-American historian who is retired from
Princeton, maintains that they were indentured servants as does Nikhil
Pal Singh, an NYU professor who is about as far from WSWS as you can get.
In my view, they were not indentured servants since they only ended up
in Jamestown as a result of being seized from a Spanish slave ship. This
wasn't a case of Jamestown colonists going over to Africa to con some
peasants into signing a 5-year contract for a great job as servants in
Jamestown. Right?
As for the rest of the article, it is filled with nonsense like this.
Racial hatred? What the fuck? Do these people base their analysis on
Karl Marx or Stanley Kramer movies?
These deletions are not mere wording changes. The “true founding” claim
was the core element of the Project’s assertion that all of American
history is rooted in and defined by white racial hatred of blacks.
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