I was rereading the 1619 essays today and what's really shocking is that they are very sober, grounded in mainstream scholarship and fuelled by patriotism.
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I think in time the opening essay, by
@nhannahjones will be seen as one of the great statements of American patriotism, in the spirit of Douglass' "Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln"Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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The first essay is rather patriotic in many ways.
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You can’t be patriotic and mention slavery. You know that.
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Yeah, the date 1619 itself is an American Exceptionalism detail. As I study transatlantic slavery, I've only ever seen American-studying Americans give it special significance.
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Yes exactly
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That's what I feel like many of the conservatives criticizing this work THINK it is: America is evil, irredeemable, etc. etc. That's because a BUNCH of leftist professors have said that over the past 40 years. But that's not what 1619 says! They're wrong.
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