You gotta love a presidential candidate who is so undisciplined that he thinks this makes sense months before an election.... LMAO...
President Donald Trump is continuing to wage battle against interpretations of history which he claims are un-American.
In a Sunday morning tweet, the President said the US Department of Education would investigate whether California schools are using the New York Times' "1619 Project" in public school curriculum. The Pulitzer-Prize winning collection reframes American history around the date of August 1619, when the first slave ship arrived on America's shores.
"Department of Education is looking at this. If so, they will not be funded!" he wrote on Twitter, citing a message from an unverified account saying it was being taught in schools there.
The message came after the President on Friday night banned federal agencies from conducting racial sensitivity training related to "white privilege" and "critical race theory."
Trump says Department of Education will investigate use of 1619 Project in schools - CNNPolitics
NYT’s ‘1619 Project’ Founder Once Wrote Whites Were ‘Bloodsuckers’ in Black Community, Equated Columbus to Hitler
NYT's '1619 Project' Founder Once Wrote Whites Were 'Bloodsuckers' in Black Community, Equated Columbus to Hitler
In 1995, Nikole Hannah-Jones, the founder of the New York Times’s revisionist American history “1619 Project”, wrote to the editor of Notre Dame’s student newspaper, The Observer. She alleged that white people “pump drugs and guns into the black community, pack black people into the squalor of segregated urban ghettos and continue to be bloodsuckers in our community.”
Hannah-Jones also said in the 1995 letter, which The Federalist published on Thursday, that “the white race is the biggest murderer, rapist, pillager, and thief of the modern world,” and described Christopher Columbus as “no different than Hitler:”
Earlier this week, Hannah-Jones briefly deleted her Twitter account. She faced criticism for amplifying unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about how the government was allegedly shooting off fireworks in New York City to “disorient and destabilize the Black Lives Matter movement” by way of “sleep deprivation as a means to create confusion and stoke tensions between Black and Brown peoples.”
A few months after the “1619 Project” debuted at the New York Times, the “1776 Project” was created to counter it. The “1776 Project” group consists of “respected historians, journalists and business leaders, mostly African American” who are “stepping forward to correct the New York Times.” You can read more about the group here.
1619 Project Creator Admits “It Is Not A History” But a Fight “to Control the National Narrative”
1619 Project Creator Admits "It Is Not A History" But a Fight "to Control the National Narrative"
Critic: 1619 Project trying to have it both ways, “it’s presented as “history” when convenient, to give it credibility (as in the curriculum description) but deemed non-history when its lack of historical rigor has been challenged.”
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK) thrust the New York Times‘ 1619 Project back into the spotlight when he threatened to defund schools that use it in the curriculum.
The discussion led creator Hannah Jones to admit the 1619 Project is not history, but a “work of journalism.”
Jones found a fascinating way to explain that her pet project is a work of fiction.
Distorted Curriculum
Jones tweeted that her project “was never intended to supplant US history curriculum.” She had to add that it “is pretty terrible but none of these folks seem concerned about that.”
Jones won a Pulitzer for the 1619 Project. The Pulitzer Center has a website dedicated to The 1619 Project Curriculum.
If she never “intended to supplant” the curriculum then we need her to explain why the website says the project “challenges us to reframe U.S. history by marking the year when the first enslaved Africans arrived on Virginia soil as our nation’s foundational date.”
