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Oct 25 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
As many states and school boards seek to ban and limit difficult discussions of our nation's past, it is critical that we as a free society find ways to read together, think together, and build together. That is why I am proud to announce the #1619Project National Read Along.
Join communities across the nation as we collectively read and discuss six chapters from the #1619Project book. You can join us at 1619books.com.
And because we at @OneWorldLit and @nytimes believe it is so important to democratize knowledge and information, we will be giving out FREE PDF's of the six chapters that are part of the #1619ProjectReadAlong: DEMOCRACY, CAPITALISM, RACE, MUSIC, SELF-DEFENSE, MUSIC, JUSTICE.
The first chapter of the #the1619projectreadalong is my opening essay on DEMOCRACY. Grab your book, buy one from your local bookstore, rent from your library, or download a copy of the chapter at 1619books.com and join us.

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Sep 29
“It’s critically important that if you’re working hard and making good grades, you should not be thrown into a lottery with just everybody.” To be clear: The everybody that the Chancellor is speaking of is the largely poor Blk & Latino students he serves. nytimes.com/2022/09/29/nyr…
The "everybody" the chancellor is talking about are this city's children, often the most disadvantaged, who he believes should be excluded from this city's best schools because someone does not think they are smart enough or hardworking enough or deserving enough.
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Sep 21
1) I think he truly believes that no one questioned slavery until the Revolutionary War because he doesn't believe Black people back then mattered. 2) What people like DeSantis can never explain is if the Founders believed all men created = why didn't they abolish slavery?
They founded an entire new country where they could establish any laws they wanted. And yet, the founders knew if they abolished slavery, they wouldn't be able to get enough support to declare independence or to ratify the Constitution. Period.
Drafter of Declaration of Independence: Enslaver from Virginia. Father of the Constitution: Enslaver from Virginia. Father of Bill of Rights: Enslaver from Virginia. Patrick Henry of "Give me liberty or give me death!": Enslaver from Virginia. First president: Enslaver from VA.
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Sep 15
People who use phrases like "the backwards slaveholding South" show they've completely accepted one of our biggest historical propaganda campaigns. The South is America. Was Virginia-- the oldest, wealthiest, most populous colony -- backwards?
Were Washington, Madison, Jefferson, etc, etc. etc., backwards slaveholding Southerners and not the real Americans? The confidence with with incurious people propagate myths in an attempt to school me is something to behold.
I have an entire section on this in my Democracy essay in the 1619 Project. Virginia was the heart of the American Revolution. Virginians drafted our founding documents. Virginians dominated the early presidency. Virginia was the capital of the Confederacy.
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Sep 15
Some of you really believe that Portugal, Spain, France, England, the Netherlands, etc, transported 13 million human beings across the Atlantic for close to 500 years because slavery wasn't profitable. Like, you all say it with your chests, too.
Embarrassing.
Just a few backwards Southern slaveowners, blah blah blah. bankofengland.co.uk/museum/whats-o…
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