5 ms·

You might want to reread the title of that NY Times page you linked to as the basis for your argument. It's not reframing US history around slavery. The series

• deogeo 7y ago
  You're right, sorry. I was going by the summary in the search results. I should have linked one of the following instead: "It aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.": https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619... "The goal of The 1619 Project is to reframe American history by considering what it would mean to regard 1619 as our nation’s birth year. Doing so requires us to place the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are as a country.": https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/20/magazine/1619-intro.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/20/magazine/1619... "The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times to correct the record, reframing the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the center of the national narrative.": https://store.nytimes.com/products/the-1619-project https://store.nytimes.com/products/the-1619-project