Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times,
President Donald Trump on Sunday warned the Department of Education is investigating the use of the New York Times’ “1619 Project” in schools, saying that institutions that use the alternative narrative of U.S. history could lose federal funding.
The “1619 Project,” created by Nikole Hannah-Jones and widely panned by historians and political scientists, attempts to cast the Atlantic slave trade as the dominant factor in the founding of America instead of ideals such as individual liberty and natural rights. Some critics have said that it is an attempt to rewrite U.S. history through a left-wing lens. Some historians have criticized the project over inaccuracies such as the American Revolution having been fought to preserve the institution of slavery rather than for seeking independence from Britain.
“Department of Education is looking at this. If so, they will not be funded!” Trump wrote on Twitter Sunday, responding to a post that said California has “implemented the 1619 project into the public schools,” and that “soon you won’t recognize [A]merica.” California’s Department of Education came up with a draft model last month to include some of the project in history classes.
It echoes the sentiment of a bill that was proposed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) introduced in July that proposes denying funds to a school that uses the 1619 Project. Schools in places like Washington D.C. and Chicago have modified their curriculum for the project.
Controversy erupted earlier this year when a professor at Northwestern University who helped fact-check the project said that she alerted Hannah-Jones about inaccuracies contained in the project but got no response.
“On August 19 of last year I listened in stunned silence as Nikole Hannah-Jones, a reporter for the New York Times, repeated an idea that I had vigorously argued against,” wrote professor Leslie Harris in Politico.
Harris also said she “vigorously disputed” the claim that protecting slavery was a major reason why the American Revolution was fought.
“Far from being fought to preserve slavery, the Revolutionary War became a primary disrupter of slavery in the North American Colonies.
Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation, a British military strategy designed to unsettle the Southern Colonies by inviting enslaved people to flee to British lines, propelled hundreds of enslaved people off plantations and turned some Southerners to the patriot side.
It also led most of the 13 Colonies to arm and employ free and enslaved black people, with the promise of freedom to those who served in their armies,” Harris wrote.
Cotton, meanwhile, wrote in July that the project is “racially divisive” and engages in a revisionist rewriting of U.S. history.
“Not a single cent of federal funding should go to indoctrinate young Americans with this left-wing garbage,” said Cotton.
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The sad truth is that many students will believe this crap as no one will tell them differently. Its like all the people who believe Covid is bound to kill them and millions more.
Could lose funding? WTF?
Auntie would not wager an expired EBT card that the funding will be stopped.
Applause for Pres Trump acting on this because it IS very important to rid our schools and colleges of this “revisionist history” crap. And get off the “white guilt” wagon or we’ll be like South Africa. All this “systemic racism” yammering needs to stop…it’s racist talk. Sorry if you don’t like your station in life, but it’s not my fucking fault.
If we were to become like South Africa it means we would steal everything and dominate everything via coercion and outright theft and murder because “we” are the White majority.
Sorry, but Trump did not “act” on this. He tweeted about it. Just like he tweeted about designating Antifa a terrorist organization. We’re still waiting for that.
To be fair he did put a quick end to the Critical Race Theory Indoctrination of gov’t workers nonsense, so we’ll have to see if he backs up his words with action on this.
As others here have said, this is just the tip of the iceberg regarding educational problems and left wing indoctrination of our children. It seems like the entire education edifice from kindergarten to university is going to need to be overhauled completely
“Not a single cent of federal funding should go to indoctrinate young Americans with this left-wing garbage,” said Cotton.
Sorry, Senator, but the public schools have been indoctrinating our children with left wing ideas for more than 40 years
Wait.
93 to 94% of all trans Atlantic slaves went to hellholes like Brazil, Nicaragua, Haiti, and so on.
Go cry a river for them.
Here’s my America history revision – “We should have picked the cotton ourselves”.
LOL- lose funding? We’re only 6 months into this thing and GDP is down 33%. It took the first 4 years of the Great Depression to shave 40% of the GDP. The economic situation is so bad that the number of young adults moving back home is the highest in 90 years. There won’t be any money to fund anything, and can you imagine the people who will be bitching about it!
We need to lose the reserve currency so that the printing press is no longer able to fill the gaps.
We must save the Public Schools.
Hello…just defund the Dept of Ed because it’s the right thing to do.