Of COURSE "1619" is seen as "revisionism" by anyone who had accepted and internalized prior sanitized accounts of American History which described slaves as "happy darkies" glad to toil for the white overseer who would bludgeon them into near unconsciousness for slacking or questioning their inhuman treatment, and showed the lovely tea parties hosted by Miss Anne, wife of the plantation owner, in the Big House parlor while said "happy darkies" toiled. That is precisely why "1619" is the breath of fresh air that it is: It exposes the inhuman side of early America that most are tooo embarrassed about to face head-on and come to grips with because it violates & mocks both our Founding Documents and the foundations of our national religion of Christianity. That fairy tale long called "history" DESERVES to be called out for the travesty it is, distortions and all. "1619" does that. So no wonder its critics (including the sitting governors of Florida & Virginia) cannot countenance it: It is too damning, too revelatory, too precise in its documented indictments to be ignored or dismissed.
Your choice: Tell the WHOLE story, not just the prettified version that flatters white America; or shut up. That former, censored version no longer applies. It is exposed as hogwash. Just as the movies "Roots" and "12 Years A Slave" opened the door to truth, and to the dismantling of the white-written fairy tale of US history, so "1619" continues that mission to sweep away the fictions and assert the unvarnished realities long covered up by those ashamed of it, yet who have benefit from it through the generations, & still do, at the expense of slaves long dead, but whose progeny walk among us.
You win the Oppression Olympics! Your prize is a lifetime of victim ideology that holds you back in every endeavor that would benefit yourself and society.
Of COURSE "1619" is seen as "revisionism" by anyone who had accepted and internalized prior sanitized accounts of American History which described slaves as "happy darkies" glad to toil for the white overseer who would bludgeon them into near unconsciousness for slacking or questioning their inhuman treatment, and showed the lovely tea parties hosted by Miss Anne, wife of the plantation owner, in the Big House parlor while said "happy darkies" toiled. That is precisely why "1619" is the breath of fresh air that it is: It exposes the inhuman side of early America that most are tooo embarrassed about to face head-on and come to grips with because it violates & mocks both our Founding Documents and the foundations of our national religion of Christianity. That fairy tale long called "history" DESERVES to be called out for the travesty it is, distortions and all. "1619" does that. So no wonder its critics (including the sitting governors of Florida & Virginia) cannot countenance it: It is too damning, too revelatory, too precise in its documented indictments to be ignored or dismissed.
Your choice: Tell the WHOLE story, not just the prettified version that flatters white America; or shut up. That former, censored version no longer applies. It is exposed as hogwash. Just as the movies "Roots" and "12 Years A Slave" opened the door to truth, and to the dismantling of the white-written fairy tale of US history, so "1619" continues that mission to sweep away the fictions and assert the unvarnished realities long covered up by those ashamed of it, yet who have benefit from it through the generations, & still do, at the expense of slaves long dead, but whose progeny walk among us.
You win the Oppression Olympics! Your prize is a lifetime of victim ideology that holds you back in every endeavor that would benefit yourself and society.