1. The freakout over the 1619 Project by the right kind of reveals how unfamiliar many people are with the basic outline of African-American history. The entire project is grounded in very mainstream scholarship -- and indeed lines of argument that go back to Douglass & du Bois.
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Having read your article, I strongly suggest you read the 2018 Hugo award winning short story: The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington. It's amazing. Link follows: https://firesidefiction.com/the-secret-lives-of-the-nine-negro-teeth-of-george-washington …
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@newtgingrich is an excellent choice for making this point. It's hard to imagine another political figure as driven to pushing ideology over truth and belief over reason in pursuit of partisan advantage.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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It's almost as if conservatives have been hypocritical and full of shit this entire time...
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Especially when there's a whole state (Texas) that revised or at least attempted to, the whole slavery narrative. Trying to reduce it down to African immigration.
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Hannah-Jones piece was interesting. The rest?......
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V well done
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The thing is that even the planters were open about the centrality of enslavement to their society, and visions of modernity. Matthew Karp explores this point in This Vast Southern Empire
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