The @The1619Project is undergoing another reinvention. @nhannahjones now claims (see below): "No honest reading of the 1619 Project argues that it deemphasizes 1776 of [sic] the Declaration." What shameless dishonesty! 1/
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1462867528758317056
The Project's main thesis is that the revolt against Britain was undertaken to save slavery. Among the main sources cited by Hannah-Jones in support of the Project is "The Counter-Revolution of 1776", written by the unreconstructed Stalinist liar and plagiarist Gerald Horne. 2/
In a further tweet, also written on Nov 22, Hannah-Jones contradicts herself and reiterates the 1619 Project's attempt to discredit (not merely "deemphasize") 1776. She writes: "Further, the Declaration is not a liberation document, but a document arguing for secession." 3/ 
The 1619 Project is awash with falsifications, half-truths, and non-sequiturs. But nothing more can be expected from a "narrative" based on the fundamental lie -- the stock and trade of the extreme right -- that racial conflict is the driving force of history. 4/4
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