Because the authors of the 1619 project seem to fairly explicitly eschew everything on this tweet that comes after “Slavery happened.” Having now read all the articles, none of them are at all sympathetic to the view that America is really getting better and progressing. https://twitter.com/CarlPaulus/status/1163257433424371715 …
I hear you. But this kind of criticism, along with pointing out the economic errors or questioning the conflation of slavery and Jim Crow with capitalism, will invariably be lumped in with the ‘how dare they say bad thing about America’ responses