The 1619 Project Exposed Part I: A Special Edition of the American Mind Podcast
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
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🗓️ 27 April 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In Part 1 of this special edition of the American Mind podcast, we explore the intellectual roots, political and societal implications of and the antidote to what the Claremont Institute believes is the great threat to America: multiculturalism. The podcast features Claremont Institute President Ryan Williams, Chairman Tom Klingenstein and scholars Lucas Morel and Chris Flannery, as well as the likes of Newt Gingrich, Allen Guelzo, Heather Mac Donald, Wilfred McClay, and Peter Wood. It is narrated by James Poulos, Executive Editor of the American Mind and produced by ChangeUp Media.
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Works Referenced & Related Readings (In Order of Appearance):
- https://americanmind.org/audio/multiculturalism-vs-america/
- https://pulitzercenter.org/sites/default/files/full_issue_of_the_1619_project.pdf
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrfV7w3EyGI&feature=youtu.be&t=1419
- https://youtu.be/Q14BTdS6BRc?t=406
- https://www.aclu.org/podcast/nikole-hannah-jones-1619-projects-reframing-american-history-ep-61
- https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-04-02-0019
- https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_606.asp
- https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_825.asp
- https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-7148
- https://lawliberty.org/reclaiming-1619/
- https://youtu.be/Q14BTdS6BRc?t=158
- https://americanmind.org/essays/america-wasnt-founded-on-white-supremacy/
- https://americanmind.org/post/the-party-of-1776/
- https://americanmind.org/post/americas-choice-freedom-or-shame/
- https://www.thefreelibrary.com/ANCIENTS%2C+MODERNS%2C+AMERICANS.-a0600446978
- https://www.heritage.org/article/the-case-bolstering-americas-founding-principles?_ga=2.62395816.581846879.1579710693-724078996.1578924964
- https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/peoriaspeech.htm
- https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/
- https://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/4399
- https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/new-york-times-meeting-transcript.html
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-isnt-the-one-dividing-us-by-race-11566158729
- https://youtu.be/ikG3ojmj25A
- https://grabien.com/story.php?id=251333
- https://youtu.be/mFm2xHHGjdU
- https://youtu.be/kAEhKh7eKzw?t=212
- https://youtu.be/kAEhKh7eKzw?t=291
- https://youtu.be/10HNtL0rhRE?t=194
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=breydcMCsiU
- https://youtu.be/burUi-TB1hk
- https://twitter.com/6abc/status/1172323328108875777
- https://youtu.be/H1ZWC2f4_A8
- https://pulitzercenter.org/blog/back-school-pulitzer-center
- https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=1619-project-poised-to-reframe-teaching-slavery-how-educators-using-information-curriculum
- https://news.wbfo.org/post/your-story-textbooks-ours-isn-t-buffalo-schools-adopt-1619-project
- https://www.nas.org/topics/1620-project
- https://nas.org/blogs/dicta/america-is-hopelessly-racist
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-weaponization-of-history-11566755226
- https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/wilfred-m-mcclay/how-the-new-york-times-is-distorting-american-history/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. Welcome everyone to another special edition of the American Mind |
| 0:17.7 | podcast. I'm Ryan Williams, president of the Claremont Institute and |
| 0:21.5 | publisher of the Claremont Review of Books and the American |
| 0:24.2 | Mind. |
| 0:25.2 | In addition to in-depth interviews with scholars, thinkers, and statesmen, and our weekly editors |
| 0:30.4 | and publisher roundtable, we sometimes produce one of these longer specials on important topics. |
| 0:36.1 | In July of 2019, we produced a special on multiculturalism versus America. |
| 0:41.5 | Our goal was to investigate and describe the ideology of multiculturalism |
| 0:45.3 | and identity politics and our current climate of stifling political correctness, which is really |
| 0:50.7 | the speech code of identity politics. |
| 0:53.0 | The roots of identity politics can be found in a completely different understanding of human nature |
| 0:58.0 | and natural rights than the one held by America's founders and subsequent generations. |
| 1:03.3 | The proponents of identity politics want to replace the enduring gold standard of American |
| 1:07.8 | justice, equal protection of equal individual rights, with a new system of group rights and their unequal protection, according |
| 1:14.8 | to one status as a political oppressor or victim of oppression. |
| 1:19.6 | This new special edition of the American Mind is on the New York Times 1619 project, |
| 1:24.8 | launched in August 2019 to commemorate the 400 year anniversary of the arrival of |
| 1:30.0 | black slaves on America's shores. As you'll hear in this podcast, |
| 1:34.0 | the 1619 project in its premises and politics |
| 1:37.0 | is yet another installment in the virtual war on America |
| 1:40.0 | and Americanism being waged by the identity politics complex. |
| 1:45.7 | The 1619 project is not merely an attempt to correct the historical record on slavery, racism, |
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