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This has been a fundamental problem with news institutions, now and in the past. They attempt to cover racism and inequality without understanding it themselves.
According to head of Chicago police union, assaulting police like this was fine because these folks were frustrated.
The hundred-year period of racial apartheid and racial terrorism known as Jim Crow.
The 1619 Project (2019)
If we are truly a great nation, the truth cannot destroy us.
The 1619 Project (2019)
Do those concerns about cancel culture and McCarthyism and censorship only apply to the left or do they apply to the POTUS threatening to investigate schools for teaching American journalism? Silence is deafening here.
White Americans desire to be free of a past they do not want to remember, while Black Americans remain bound to a past they can never forget.
The 1619 Project (2019)
Of course many police officers have nothing to do with white nationalist groups, but there's never been a time where significant numbers did NOT engage with and share sympathies with white supremacists. The history of American policing begins in some places w the slave patrols.
None of us can be held responsible for the wrongs of our ancestors. But if today we choose not to do the right and necessary thing, that burden we own.
The 1619 Project (2019)
People on the right have been very afraid of a narrative that doesn't deify our founding, that actually forces us to confront it, because that leads to change. When people know better oftentimes they do better. We are seeing that now.
I have dedicated my life’s work to excavating the modern legacy of transatlantic slavery
UN speech (2022)
School curricula generally treat slavery as an aberration in a free society, and textbooks largely ignore the way that many prominent men, women, industries, and institutions profited from and protected slavery.
The 1619 Project (2019)
I think we have to decide if we are going to grapple honestly with our country or not.
Interview with Democracy Now (2021)
If a patriotism has to be based on propaganda that really diminishes and tries to erase from memory the difficult parts of our past, it doesn’t seem like that is a genuine patriotism.
Interview with Democracy Now (2021)
When Texas seceded in 1836, it seceded in order to form a slaveholding republic. If you don’t teach that, then children are not able to understand all of the inequality that they have today.
Interview with Democracy Now (2021)
When politicians decided protests shouldn't happen, Black people shouldn't vote, Black children shouldn't integrate schools, they called on law enforcement to enforce their desires, even when courts had ordered compliance with these rights.
While history is what happened, it is also, just as important, how we think about what happened and what we unearth and choose to remember about what happened
The 1619 Project (2019)