#1399 Myths are written by the victors, history by the scholars
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 17 February 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 2/16/2021
Today we take a look at the competing histories fighting for dominance in the minds of Americans; the mythologized and romanticized history as represented by the "patriotic" framing of history from the 1776 Commission report and the much more fact-based approach that doesn't skirt the issue of race from the 1619 Project.
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SHOW NOTES
Nikole Hannah-Jones, the architect behind "The 1619 Project," and Ibram X. Kendi, author of “How To Be an Antiracist,” joined Chris Hayes to examine the 400 year legacy of slavery in America.
Prof. Eddie Glaude Jr. joins Mehdi Hasan to explain why the Trump administration's 1776 Report is an attempt to stoke a culture war via historical nonsense.
Ch. 3: Eric Foner on The 1619 Project - Start Making Sense - Air Date 11-21-19
Historian Eric Foner talks about The New York Times’ “1619 Project,” which argues that the legacy of slavery is central to all of the American past and present—including the White House today.
Ch. 4: The 1776 Report - Past Present - Air Date 1-26-21
In this episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki discuss ·The 1776 Report· issued by the outgoing Trump administration.
Ch. 5: The Original Sin of 1619 - In The Thick - Air Date 8-20-19
Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones led a team of black journalists, writers and poets to create The 1619 Project, a deep and thoughtful look into the 400th anniversary of the beginning of slavery in this country. But a lot of the response has been predictable
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Ch. 6: Midnight in the Garden of American Heroes - Know Your Enemy - Air Date 2-11-21
Matt and Sam explain West Coast Straussianism, the school of thought behind one of the last acts of the Trump administration: its publication of the "1776 Report," the Right's shabby response to the 1619 Project and blueprint for the American Founding
Ch. 7: Adolph Reed Critiques The 1619 Project - The Michael Brooks Show - Air Date 5-14-20
Adolph Reed talks about the 1619 project through the lens of anti-essentialism.
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 8: Proper attribution for vaccines - Dr. Gay
Ch. 9: Financial health of the show? - Nick from California
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 10: Final comments on framing vaccine manufacturers properly
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast, in which we shall |
| 0:07.1 | learn about the competing histories fighting for dominance in the minds of Americans, |
| 0:12.0 | between the mythologized and romanticized history as represented by the, air quotes, |
| 0:17.9 | patriotic framing of history from the 1776 Commission report, and the much more fact-based |
| 0:24.3 | approach that doesn't skirt the issue of race from the 1619 project. Clips today are |
| 0:31.0 | from, why is this happening with Chris Hayes, the Medihassan show, start making sense, |
| 0:37.8 | past present, in the thick, know your enemy and the Michael Brooks show? |
| 0:43.4 | Whiteness is a property in and of itself, right? It has a value and White Americans both explicitly |
| 0:57.5 | know this but also explicitly deny that they know this. At the same time, when I got and |
| 1:04.4 | give talks and I say I have never found a single school district in all of America where |
| 1:09.5 | Black kids in their separate schools have the same resources as White kids and I always |
| 1:14.7 | ask is anyone surprised and I never get a single hand. What that tells you is that is |
| 1:19.3 | the expectation that it is expected that White Americans will have more, will get more |
| 1:25.2 | resources, will have better opportunities, will be in better everything. That is just |
| 1:29.0 | the expectation of a country built on white supremacy. But there's also that denial of |
| 1:33.2 | that at the same time. And the other thing is we are a wash and anti-blackness from |
| 1:39.3 | the moment we take a breath in this country. And that anti-blackness, if I ask everyone |
| 1:44.0 | in here to list 10 stereotypes about Black people, you could do it in 60 seconds without |
| 1:48.4 | even having to think about it. And no one ever had to have a conversation with you and |
| 1:52.8 | say Black people are criminal, Black people are lazy, Black people don't work as hard. |
| 1:56.6 | No one ever had to tell you that and you just know it. And that is because that idea about |
| 2:02.9 | Black and Theory already arose to justify slavery and you cannot say people are not human |
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