This would be a Great Case for the Supreme Court

[Chillicothe]

1619 Project and other leftist propaganda are not history and should not be taught!

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That's an interesting assertion, poster Meyers.
What did you think of the book after you read it?
Here's what one respected review said about it:

“Pulitzer winner Hannah-Jones . . . and an impressive cast of historians, journalists, poets, novelists, and cultural critics deliver a sweeping study of the ‘unparalleled impact’ of African slavery on American society. . . . The result is a bracing and vital reconsideration of American history.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review).

Now, if you haven't read it, you still have time. Below is a link to Amazon so you can buy it. Or go to your nearest public library and check it out on your library card.

But then, if you haven't read it......well, how qualified can your opinion be?
Just askin'.

Amazon product

 

[dblack]

 

[gmeyers1944]

What...you're ashamed of our history of slavery?

You should be but that shouldn't matter

1619 Project is 100% lies!

 

[Chillicothe]

1619 Project is 100% lies!

OK. We hear you,

But what did you think of the book after you actually read it?
What did you like about it?
What did you think could have been better?
Was the quality of the writing, chronological thread, interpretation of events and of their impacts, and the scholarship equal to the other books that you favor on this subject?

And, BTW, which other books do you recommend in lieu of this book if one is desiring of learning more about the native African experience when they were first introduced to the North American continent?

What do you have on your shelf, and do your lend them out to interested friends or colleagues?
Why do you recommend those books?

Would you recommend the 1619 book to any educational level? ----Middle school? High School? College?

Which level?
Why?
Or why not?

 

[gmeyers1944]

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That's an interesting assertion, poster Meyers.
What did you think of the book after you read it?
Here's what one respected review said about it:

“Pulitzer winner Hannah-Jones . . . and an impressive cast of historians, journalists, poets, novelists, and cultural critics deliver a sweeping study of the ‘unparalleled impact’ of African slavery on American society. . . . The result is a bracing and vital reconsideration of American history.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review).

Now, if you haven't read it, you still have time. Below is a link to Amazon so you can buy it. Or go to your nearest public library and check it out on your library card.

But then, if you haven't read it......well, how qualified can your opinion be?
Just askin'.

Amazon product

The most successful liars are those that start out with a kernel of truth. The cover of the book 1619 Project states that it was created by Nikole Hannah-Jones. How true that is! It came from her racist imagination!

 

[Chillicothe]

How true that is! It came from her racist imagination!

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So, after you actually read the book.....you believe it is a work of fiction?
Why do you say that?
What specific parts of it impressed you as ficitonal?
Any parts of it that you thought were realistic? Which parts?

 

[gmeyers1944]

Translation.

He did NOT say that

You are right. He did not actually say that. By saying that he was going to pick a black woman, he made it clear that "Whites need not apply"

 

[gmeyers1944]

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That's an interesting assertion, poster Meyers.
What did you think of the book after you read it?
Here's what one respected review said about it:

“Pulitzer winner Hannah-Jones . . . and an impressive cast of historians, journalists, poets, novelists, and cultural critics deliver a sweeping study of the ‘unparalleled impact’ of African slavery on American society. . . . The result is a bracing and vital reconsideration of American history.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review).

Now, if you haven't read it, you still have time. Below is a link to Amazon so you can buy it. Or go to your nearest public library and check it out on your library card.

But then, if you haven't read it......well, how qualified can your opinion be?
Just askin'.

Amazon product

Maybe you should read this.

 

[Chillicothe]

Maybe you should read this.

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I had not heard of that book. But I will look for it in my local library, read it, then offer an opinion.

It is my intention when offering whatever observations on whatever subject to at least have done some due diligence.
If it is an issue or social/political/economic development then I want to have some familiarity with the subject.

And most especially on offering an opinion on a book. I personally would think that offering an opinion...a 'judgement'.....on a book I had not read would paint one as sort of a fake & phony. That's not a good look for anyone. No?

 

[Chillicothe]

Being somewhat curious about the book the good poster Meyers references in post #88......I read a little bit about it on the Amazon reviews feature.

I am piqued by what I read an will seek the book out.

From Amazon:

"An Afterward, “Trump’s 1776 Travesty”, exposes the nationalist myth-making at the heart of the right-wing critique of the 1619 Project and the Project itself, grounded in racialist theory.

As Walter Benn Michaels puts it, “Everyone interested in understanding what happened then and what’s actually happening now needs to read it.”

"About the Author​

David North has played a leading role in the international socialist movement for forty-five years; he is the chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party (US). His many published works include The Heritage We Defend; The Crisis of American Democracy; In Defense of Leon Trotsky; The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century; The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo-Left and A Quarter Century of War.
Thomas Mackaman is a historian at Kings College in Pennsylvania, author of New Immigrants and the Radicalization of American Labor, 1914-1924; he is a regular contributor to the World Socialist Web Site."