![]() "A word of warning: There is gruesome material in these stories, material that readers will find disturbing. From NY Times Magazine's "Why We Published the 1619 Project" 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. 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. ![]() The seeds of all that were planted long before our official birth date, in 1776, when the men known as our founders formally declared independence from Britain. ![]() Out of slavery - and the anti-Black racism it required - grew nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional: its economic might, its industrial power, its electoral system, its diet and popular music, the inequities of its public health and education, its astonishing penchant for violence, its income inequality, the example it sets for the world as a land of freedom and equality, its slang, its legal system and the endemic racial fears and hatreds that continue to plague it to this day. ![]()
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