The newspaper's slavery-at-the-fore reframing of American history distorts this country's progress and the exceptional ideals that drive it.
This Sunday Cover Op-Ed originally appeared in the Star Tribune on December 8, 2019.
In August, the New York Times launched the “1619 Project” with great fanfare. The self-proclaimed goal of the project — a series of more than 30 essays and artistic productions — is to “reframe” history, convincing Americans that our nation’s “true founding” occurred not in 1776, but 400 years ago, in 1619, when 20 or so slaves came ashore in the Jamestown colony.
The Times maintains that America’s “founding ideals were...
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