We've been lied to!: The 1619 project

There are many educational lies and they are being exposed. Here is the truth to counter one of those lies of the New York Times' 1619 project.

Even though many others have exposed and countered the lies that make up the 1619 project, this opinion piece by the New York Times is still being taught in public schools as true American History.

There are the lies about slavery and the founding and dates and such.

The NYT paints America as an evil empire. For an empire America has done a very poor job of expansion.

The United States kicked the butts of the pirates in Trinidad, we didn’t take that chance to expand our territory there. We were victorious, to a point, in the Korean War, we could have easily conquered at least South Korea. We didn’t.

Before that we achieved an unconditional surrender from Japan, we could have easily taken over that nation and the territories it had conquered. We didn’t. We took over parts of Europe as well but we stopped our advance in Berlin, Germany. We didn’t acquire any new territories, or colonies, from those victories either. We could have won in Vietnam and conquered there as well, but the politics of our “empire” wouldn’t allow it.

Conclusion, we either suck at conquest, although we have proven we can win wars; or we are not the evil empire the 1619 project claims we are.

After the Civil War, where many white Americans (and some blacks) died to free the slaves American finished defeating the American Indians. We could have enslaved the survivors or we could have exterminated their kind but we gave them bits of land to live on instead.

And this entire time we were also inventing, innovating and generally making life better.

Yes, there were bad things; like slavery and near extermination and forced relocations and internment camps, etc. There is also documented evidence of many contributions by blacks throughout the history of the colonies and the USA, but that is another very long body of work.

These bad things are outweighed by the good things the USA has accomplished, and will again when the evil viruses that are currently infesting and eroding our education system are removed. Things like the 1619 project, SEL (Social Emotional Learning), DIE (Diversity, Inclusion, Equity), the ideologies of CRT, pornographic books, gender fluidity, etc.

(For Black history month) Contributions to young America by blacks.

1) James Armistead – black patriot and spy who helped make possible the victory at Yorktown in 1781 that pretty muched end the Revolutionary War and established the United States of America.

2) Peter Salem – was a hero of the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill; was a Minuteman; fought in the Battles of Saratoga and Stoney Hill. Monument in Massachusets to honor his memory and deeds.

3) Prince Whipple – one of two black patriots to cross the Delaware with Washington on Christmas night in 1776, march nine miles and defeat the Hessians.

4) Oliver Cromwell - one of two black patriots to cross the Delaware with Washington on Christmas night in 1776, march nine miles and defeat the Hessians.

5) William Nell – black historian, studied law in the 1830s and became the first black to hold a government post.

6) Cripus Attucks – resisted the British and became one of the first casualties of the Boston Massacre

7) Prince Estabrook – One of the American patriots wounded at Lexington during the ‘Shot heard round the World’ skirmish.

8) Wentworth Cheswill – elected to various offices beginning in 1768 and continuing for 49 years, made a Paul Reviere-like ride to warn other patriots.

9) Jack “Prince” Sisson – took part in a daring secret operation during the Revolution that set a precedent for today’s Special Forces.

10) Richard Allen – Reverend, founder of America’s first black denomination

11) Harry Hoosier – has a state named after him. Converted many to Christianity, those many settled in what came Indiana, the Hoosier state.

12) Carter Woodson (1875-1950) – black historian known as “The Father of Black History”

13) Henry Garnet – Reverend, first black to deliver a sermon in Congress

14) Hiram Rhodes Revels – Reverend, first black U.S. Senator

15) Joseph Hayne Rainey – first black elected to U.S. Congress

16) Jefferson Franklin Long, first black to give a speech in the U.S. House

17) John Rock – first black admitted to the Supreme Court Bar

18) John Roy Lynch – first black to preside over a national political convention

19) Frederick Douglas – Reverend, first black to be appointed to office in four presidential administrations

Then there are the well-known ones

George Washington Carver

Jesse Owens

Jackie Robinson

Muhamad Ali

Justice Clarence Thomas

Martin Luther King

Rosa Parks

Interesting story - When the first slaves arrived in the Pilgrim colony, the captain and crew of the ship were arrested and convicted of man-stealing. The black slaves were granted freedom and were returned home at the colony’s expense.

There are a lot more interesting stories, along with citations, in a couple of books by David and Tim Barton; “The American Story: The Beginnings” and “Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black & White”