Short, easy to read and extremely important.

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Top historians slam NYT’s ‘1619 Project’ for making America’s history all about racism — and it’s coming to public schools

Top historians are slamming the the New York Times’ “1619 Project” for inaccurately reframing America’s history with slavery and racism at the epicenter.

The project, which is now being added to some public high school curriculums, says that the nation’s “true founding” occurred when the first African slave ship arrived in Virginia in 1619 and argues that “anti-black racism runs in the very DNA” of America.

In a series of interviews conducted by the World Socialist Website (no, that’s not a typo), top American history scholars are berating the project for being “anti-historical,” “one-sided,” and just downright “wrong.”

James McPherson, professor emeritus of history at Princeton University, told WSWS that “from the outset, I was disturbed by what seemed like a very unbalanced, one-sided account, which lacked context and perspective on the complexity of slavery, which was clearly, obviously, not an exclusively American institution.”-- excerpt, rest at link above --

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This whole thing is so wrong, and on so many levels.

Ahh, this was the item that Mark spent the first hour of his show on last evening.... he was pretty burned up about it.... I think that he played some clips from this Gordon Wood...