Trump administration issues racist school curriculum report on MLK day
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The Trump Administration Dropped Their Anti-Progressive, Slavery Minimizing ‘1776 Project’ On MLK Day, And People Were Appalled
Donald Trump is on his way out the White House door, but he clearly has some fight left in him. On Monday, aka Martin Luther King Jr. Day, his administration unveiled two curious things. One was a bizarre garden honoring tons of random historical figures. Then there was “The 1776 Project,” their long-threatened response to The New York Times’ 1619 Project, which aims to reframe how we look at America’s past in relation to its embrace of slavery for nearly its first century. And it was what a lot of people expected it to be, which is to say a mess of historiography that downplays slavery, attacks “progressives,” and many more whoppers besides.
It ran some 45 pages, half of which was a reprinting of the U.S. Constitution, and it purported to be a “definitive chronicle of the American founding,” attacking “destructive scholarship” that might view the nation’s past through the lens of the bad things it did for so long.
“States and school districts should reject any curriculum that promotes one-sided partisan opinions, activist propaganda, or factional ideologies that demean America’s heritage, dishonor our heroes, or deny our principles,” it reads.
It was, in short, a lot. It attacks higher learning. (“Colleges peddle resentment and contempt for American principles and history alike.”)
It lumped “progressives” in with “fascists” and “communists” as “challenges to America’s principles.”
It even attacks those who teach the nation’s grim history with non-whites.
It asserts that pointing out that the founding fathers were “hypocrites” for preaching that “every man is created equal” while owning slaves was “untrue, and has done enormous damage, especially in recent years, with a devastating effect on our civic unity and social fabric.” (You can read the whole thing here.)
People online were quick to highlight the most jaw-dropping parts. There was its minimization of slavery
The 1776 Commission says CRITICISM of the Founding Fathers' slave ownership did enormous damage & had a devastating effect on our civic unity & social fabric
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now for this
becos why not ! but dont forget Trump done a lot for black folks according to @forcesteeler & ilk but also both sides & Platinum Plan & economic zones & sleepy joe & foreigner harris
Trump administration issues racist school curriculum report on MLK day
A commission stood up by President Donald Trump as a rebuttal to schools applying a more accurate history curriculum around slavery in the US issued its inflammatory report on Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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Trump Dropped Slavery Minimizing, Anti-Left ’1776 Project’ On MLK Day
People were appalled that the president would distort history, including the civil rights movement, on the day, of all days.
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Donald Trump is on his way out the White House door, but he clearly has some fight left in him. On Monday, aka Martin Luther King Jr. Day, his administration unveiled two curious things. One was a bizarre garden honoring tons of random historical figures. Then there was “The 1776 Project,” their long-threatened response to The New York Times’ 1619 Project, which aims to reframe how we look at America’s past in relation to its embrace of slavery for nearly its first century. And it was what a lot of people expected it to be, which is to say a mess of historiography that downplays slavery, attacks “progressives,” and many more whoppers besides.
It ran some 45 pages, half of which was a reprinting of the U.S. Constitution, and it purported to be a “definitive chronicle of the American founding,” attacking “destructive scholarship” that might view the nation’s past through the lens of the bad things it did for so long.
“States and school districts should reject any curriculum that promotes one-sided partisan opinions, activist propaganda, or factional ideologies that demean America’s heritage, dishonor our heroes, or deny our principles,” it reads.
It was, in short, a lot. It attacks higher learning. (“Colleges peddle resentment and contempt for American principles and history alike.”)
It lumped “progressives” in with “fascists” and “communists” as “challenges to America’s principles.”
It even attacks those who teach the nation’s grim history with non-whites.
It asserts that pointing out that the founding fathers were “hypocrites” for preaching that “every man is created equal” while owning slaves was “untrue, and has done enormous damage, especially in recent years, with a devastating effect on our civic unity and social fabric.” (You can read the whole thing here.)
People online were quick to highlight the most jaw-dropping parts. There was its minimization of slavery
The 1776 Commission says CRITICISM of the Founding Fathers' slave ownership did enormous damage & had a devastating effect on our civic unity & social fabric
On MLK Day, Biden volunteers, Trump issues divisive report on slavery and civil rights
Trump's 1776 Commission issued a report attacking identity politics that was quickly dismissed by historians.
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now for this
becos why not ! but dont forget Trump done a lot for black folks according to @forcesteeler & ilk but also both sides & Platinum Plan & economic zones & sleepy joe & foreigner harris
I am actually shocked they didn't go full white historical revisionist and infer that white indentured servants were the real victims of slavery.
