“The 1932 and 1939 Project”

     With the launching of the NY Times “1619 Project,” the paper of record seeks to reframe American history. Formerly we had foolishly assumed the birth of the nation to be July 4, 1776, with the writing of the Declaration of Independence. But, no, the paper of record has another date in mind. It turns out to be 1619 with the importing of the first African slaves to America. That moment, the Times believes, more accurately depicts the founding of the nation and its underlying precepts. We now learn that our Declaration, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, or our disingenuous claim that “all men are created equal” do not define the nation. Rather, it is that America is a uniquely racist and exploitative enterprise, a criminal operation, morally stained in its DNA, founded as it is on the institution of slavery. Furthermore, we are to understand that all the advances and benefits that have accrued to our nation in its 243-year history, come not from our religious underpinnings, individual and private property rights, free markets, and our constitutional system of limited government, but rather – you guessed it – slavery.

     Others have refuted the ideologic and political 1619 Project (Mark Levin, Byron York, Mackubin Thomas Owens, Joshua Lawson), and so I will not retrace ground capably covered elsewhere. Rather, I propose something else. Why, after all, play in their playground? ( To read the whole article on  “American Thinker” and comment click here)