A Critique of the 1619 Project

I would say it is useless.

They’re basically rewriting history. It’s garbage.

It’s nearly as disingenuous as a North Korean school textbook. Yet it’s woke, so let’s all lie and pretend we believe it (oh wait, kids might not get the joke......)

The people pushing this in schools deserve jail time

My younger brother attends one of the top NE boarding schools, and in his US history class, his first or second reading was the factually inaccurate essay from the 1619 project (before it was revised, too, apparently). He said it was actually a very good essay, but that he would have liked it a lot more if it wasn't factually inaccurate. Still, he said his teacher was a PHD with published research – who evidently didn't see it as imprudent to give her class with an essay with several historical fallacies (or at least, exaggerations). 

I don't know if all of the classes at the school include that reading, but if I learned one thing, it's that liberal teachers at liberal institutions are *not afraid* to include this revisionist history in their curriculums.

The recently-written NYT OP-ed critiquing the article did a solid job of summing everything up – in essence, the ambition of the project (which was a nice idea – Black people are very much overlooked in US history) went too far, as it got to the point where true history was ignored. The comments section of the article, too, also has some interesting perspectives. 

Omg you guys are totally not woke...I personally had AOC as my high school calc teacher and she taught me all about this! Yaaaasss