Summer Reading List

Instead of reading the 1619 Project, I encourage my fellow freedom-loving Americans to read the Bible, the Constitution and the Federalist Papers.

— Mike Pompeo (@mikepompeo) July 24, 2021

America - 'Stolen Land'

What the “stolen land” people don’t understand is that virtually all of the land on the face of this earth has been conquered at one point in time. That’s life.

— Alana Mastrangelo (@ARmastrangelo) July 4, 2021

Of course.

History tells of conquest. This notion that the people who settled America are the ultimate oppressors and thieves is ridiculous.

It's a denial of reality.

The Freedom Tower - 1776

To note on this 4th of July holiday: The Freedom Tower, built to replace the twin towers in New York, stands precisely 1776 feet tall. Were it designed today, of course, it would be 1619 feet tall. pic.twitter.com/SM6r21XLtY

— Byron York (@ByronYork) July 5, 2021

American Marxism

American Marxism by Mark R. Levin

In American Marxism, Levin explains how the core elements of Marxist ideology are now pervasive in American society and culture—from our schools, the press, and corporations, to Hollywood, the Democratic Party, and the Biden presidency—and how it is often cloaked in deceptive labels like “progressivism,” “democratic socialism,” “social activism,” and more. With his characteristic trenchant analysis, Levin digs into the psychology and tactics of these movements, the widespread brainwashing of students, the anti-American purposes of Critical Race Theory and the Green New Deal, and the escalation of repression and censorship to silence opposing voices and enforce conformity. Levin exposes many of the institutions, intellectuals, scholars, and activists who are leading this revolution, and provides us with some answers and ideas on how to confront them.

As Levin writes: “The counter-revolution to the American Revolution is in full force. And it can no longer be dismissed or ignored for it is devouring our society and culture, swirling around our everyday lives, and ubiquitous in our politics, schools, media, and entertainment.” And, like before, Levin seeks to rally the American people to defend their liberty.

1619 Project - FRAUD

After rewriting history, Nicole Hannah-Jones is rewriting her rewriting.

 

Its author is now claiming she never said 1619 marked the nation’s founding. Yes she did, though her words have now quietly been edited to say otherwise. https://t.co/FnOuhNpAuz

— Brit Hume (@brithume) September 22, 2020

A lot of things are being edited these days.

The 1776 Commission

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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 17, 2020

Clearly, generations of Americans have been taught to hate America. 

We're seeing the fruits of the toxic anti-American indoctrination by Leftist educators in the riots, looting, and attacks on American citizens as they dine or walk on public streets. 

 The horrific realization that so many young Americans prefer socialism to our system confirms the need to revamp public education in our country. 

In terms of the election, the 1776 Commission is a brilliant move on President Trump's part. He provides Americans with a clear choice. 

Vote for anti-School Choice Joe Biden and the hate America 1619 Project, or vote for patriotic, pro-School Choice Donald Trump and the celebrate America 1776 Commission. 

Oppression and victimization or freedom and achievement. 

I choose freedom and achievement.

NYT Family Owned Slaves

New York Times family owned slaves. Meanwhile, they’re promoted by the rest of the media.https://t.co/jak6EpSvac

— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) July 19, 2020

I trust the New York Times' 1619 Project will take note.

Cancel the New York Times.

NYT's 1619 Project Misreads History

By re-framing America’s founding around slavery, the New York Times' 1619 Project misreads history along with the role Americans played in realizing the ideals of the Declaration.https://t.co/r36EBWNMBM

— The Federalist (@FDRLST) August 21, 2019

The New York Times, like other Leftists and Leftist operations, is obsessed with making America the ultimate bad guy.

Joshua Lawson does an excellent job analyzing the NYT's distortion of American and world history.

He writes:

It’s there in plain sight. Spelled-out in its mission statement, the New York Times’ 1619 Project seeks to “reframe” American history to mark the year 1619 as the “true founding.” By doing so, the project will “[place] the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center” of the American story.

The year 1619 was chosen for the Times’ “re-founding” to mark when the first slaves arrived in the English settlement of Jamestown. For the Times, this moment irredeemably tainted the nation. Yet viewing the centuries-old actions of men through a 21st-century lens will not solve our present social tensions. Slavery was a heart-wrenching, obstacle during America’s birth, but by no objective analysis was it the central factor of the founding as the 1619 Project claims.

...With no other way to obtain the necessary support for unity and ratification, the Founders spitefully tolerated slavery’s existence, while also placing it on a path to extinction. Once the nation secured independence, American statesman of the Founding Era slashed away at slavery as quickly as prudence and political reality would allow.

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 prohibited slavery in the territory that would become the states of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin. In 1794, Congress barred American ships from engaging in the slave trade. Additional legislation in 1780 banned Americans from employment or investment in the international slave trade. Finally, the U.S. Congress officially banned the importation of slaves beginning on January 1, 1808, the earliest date allowed under the deal made to ratify the Constitution.

Far from the bastion of racism, hate and pro-slavery sentiment that the 1619 Project portrays, much of the United States was ahead of the world in ending the horror of slavery. Shortly after the signing of the Declaration, northern states took the lead. By 1804, New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania had passed laws that immediately or gradually abolished slavery.

Lawson points out that abolition efforts around the world lagged behind the Americans.

Slavery wasn’t abolished until 1834 in the British Empire, 1848 in French colonial possessions, 1858 in Portuguese colonies, 1861 in Dutch Caribbean colonies, 1886 in Cuba, and 1888 in Brazil.

The pace of abolition was even worse in the non-Western part of the world. Barbary pirate slavers from North Africa enslaved more than a million Europeans until the end of WWI, three times the number of Africans sold to America. Slavery wasn’t abolished in China until 1910 (but was still practiced until 1949) and didn’t completely end in Korea until 1930. Qatar allowed slavery until 1952, Saudi Arabia and Yemen until 1962, and Mauritania until 1980—nearly 200 years after it was abolished by the state of Massachusetts.

Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Americans gave their lives to end slavery.

The New York Times should portray history fairly, but that wouldn't advance the "Hate America" agenda. Instead, we get the 1619 Project.