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Richard W. Painter

18 Sep, 8 tweets, 2 min read

Our Thanksgiving holiday celebrates the events of 1620 (the arrival of the Mayflower passengers and their descendants). This historical perspective starts the year before. We owe it to our Country to listen with open minds and not attack the messenger.
nytimes.com/interactive/20…

I do not agree with every conclusion of every historian affiliated with he 1619 Project, nor do I believe every narrative about my own ancestors. But to discern the truth we must listen to each other, and most important think about how to move forward and make it better.

We gain nothing from the blanket hostility directed at the 1619 Project by Fox News, right wing newspapers, and antagonistic blog posts, including obsessive postings by Brian Leiter that I recently criticized. That's no way to find historical truth or work toward a better future.

Calling the New York Times 1619 Project "Marxist" is a joke. Some of the most hateful comments about the 1619 Project come from Marxists as well as from the extreme right. Their common interest is sowing dissension and racial animosity in America to further their own goals.

Calling Nikole Hannah-Jones an "imbecile" because you disagree with her doesn't help.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2019/12/t…

The 1620 Project. Many take pride in our pilgrim ancestors and in ancestors who arrived over the next 400 years. Now let's listen to somebody else. We lose nothing learning history also from the perspective of fellow Americans who lived it differently.
bbc.com/news/world-us-…

Professional historians disagree with or qualify particular conclusions in the 1619 Project without condemning the entire Project. For example observations about slavery and the American Revolution are supportable in part for the South, but would not apply for the North.

Why is it that the same people who attack the 1619 Project obsessively, and call Nikole Hannah-Jones an "imbecile" also obsessively tell law school deans that they must remain silent about racism and the killing of George Floyd? Pure coincidence?

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Richard W. Painter

@RWPUSA

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Gotta be kidding. We hear this tale of denial all too often. With attitudes like this we’ll never fix our Country’s problems.

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leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2021/09…

I will not remain silent about injustice, and I will confront anyone who tries to intimidate others into remaining silent. Germany learned this in the 1930's. We are learning it now. Silence kills.

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