What's Wrong With the 1619 Project?

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🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In August of 2019, the New York Times published the 1619 Project. Its goal is to redefine the American experiment as rooted not in liberty but in slavery. In this video, Wilfred Reilly, Associate Professor of Political Science at Kentucky State University, responds to the 1619 Project’s major claims.

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0:00.0	Have you heard of the 1619 project?
0:03.6	It was published by the New York Times in August of 2019.
0:07.3	It won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2020.
0:11.7	Its thesis, the United States was founded in 1619
0:16.1	when the first slave was brought to North America.
0:18.8	Wait, that brings up some questions.
0:21.8	What happened to 1776 to July 4th?
0:25.6	The Declaration of Independence.
0:27.6	George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison.
0:31.0	According to the 1619 project, the founding fathers
0:33.9	pushed for all that life, liberty, and the pursuit
0:36.6	of happiness stuff to protect their slave holdings.
0:39.9	Independence from England, that was just a smokescreen.
0:42.8	To them, everything that's wrong with America
0:44.9	is tied to her original sense of slavery,
0:47.4	from segregation to traffic jams.
0:49.8	Yes, traffic jams.
0:51.6	For the 1619 project authors, racism
0:54.2	is not a part of the American experience.
0:56.2	It is the American experience.
0:58.4	Is this true?
0:59.7	Let's look at three of the project's major claims.
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