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White Supremacy Has an Alias: The 1776 Commission
Trump’s attempt to discredit the 1619 Project will never work because the truth cannot be denied.
There’s a valuable lesson I’ve learned over the course of my life:
Anything you do with malicious intent will always come back to you full circle and return the favor.
Donald J. Trump would be wise to heed those words.
In one of the most calculating and disturbing speeches I’ve heard him deliver to date, Trump stood before a podium and pledged sign to an executive order to teach “patriotic education” neatly packaged in what he calls the “1776 Commission.”
It’s no coincidence that Trump chose a historical date for the title of his proposed solution to basically keep schools exactly the way they are, since the history taught to our children is already an indoctrination of the truth based on White supremacy.
It was a play on the Pulitzer Prize winning 1619 Project created by the New York Times. Nikole Hannah-Jones is the investigative journalist directing the project that consists of essays from several Times journalists, including Hannah-Jones, discussing the consequences of slavery and highlighting the stories and contributions of Black Americans in this country. The project was released in 2019 to commemorate the 400 year mark of the capture and enslavement of Africans who were brought to America for the sole purpose of servitude.
Trump suggested that teaching children the history of slavery in this country was “child abuse” and declared to his devoted audience that he would not let that happen.
Let’s talk about child abuse, shall we?
Would it be fair to say that ripping children from the safety of their mother’s arms and forcing them into servitude is child abuse?
Would it be unreasonable to suggest that whipping a child’s back until the skin was literally torn off the child’s body is abuse?
Would it be wrong to assume that denying a child the right to learn to read, write, and speak effectively is child abuse?
Would it be outrageous to say that forcefully mandating a child to hard labor for more than…
