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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

The Slavery Argument

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

iHeartPodcasts

Daily News, Society & Culture, News

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Hour 2 of A&G features "Tim the Lawyer" Sandefur, responding to the premise of the NY Times Magazine feature on slavery, "The 1619 Project". Plus, why we certainly don't need to nuke Denmark and something about Disc Jockeys.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So I've just been hearing the rumblings about the 1619 project in New York Times series

0:23.2

of articles and stuff like that.

0:25.4

I just kind of just thought I can feel the heat sometimes from a story and I decide,

0:31.2

you know what, I'm not ready to wait into that yet.

0:33.4

I feel like I'm going to have to, but I'm just not ready for you.

0:36.8

I've read some of it, but it's come down upon me now.

0:39.8

And according to the editor of the New York Times, the executive editor, he's

0:44.6

signaled that the New York Times is going to pivot from Russia coverage.

0:48.0

You know why?

0:49.0

I'm going to pivot from Russia coverage to focusing on race in the run up to the 2020 election.

0:55.2

I'll go as a Russia coverage wasn't working for boot and trump out.

0:58.2

So they thought maybe race and painting him as a racist would right.

1:01.6

But the Times also declared it quote aims to reframe the country's history, understanding

1:07.5

1619 as our true founding and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions

1:13.6

of black Americans at the very center of the story.

1:16.0

We tell ourselves about who we are.

1:18.0

Unquote 1619 being the date of when first started slip and shit slaves to North America.

1:24.2

That's our true founding and some of the things that have been said during the conversation

1:31.8

about this in the 1619 project have been quite controversial.

1:35.0

I would say and they are not restricted to that journalism project either.

1:39.4

You hear it all the time.

1:40.5

It's taught in all the colleges and high schools of America.

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