This is one of those weird things neolibs don't seem to get. A lot of our best historical figures only pragmatically gave slight edges towards black rights, the Southern Bloc held enormous power over United States politics and prevented tons of progress and still does essentially, and often times social progress was met with backlash.
Reconstruction not going far enough is because Andrew Johnson was a racist Southern Sympathizer, for example, and it's impossible to detach that from the U.S's history of slavery and it's impossible to detach that from the 100 years of constant civil rights abuses that followed. There were multiple covered up massacres of black citizens & towns within the South as a direct consequence of Reconstruction ending early.
So, yeah, you know, maybe we should teach that and how it still affects people today. The 1619 project, even as a flawed work, is much closer to reality than the utterly deranged "patriotic education" that seeks to utterly whitewash any history of how black people suffered in the United States. Calling it "framed by politics" and acting as if that makes it equally invalid is totally absurd since the people in TX congress pushing against the 1619 project are people who, and I must emphasize this, trying to make black people second class citizens by re-instituting Jim Crow era laws under the guise of "Voter security".
Carrying water for them by whinging about CRT and the 1619 Project is deranged. Your priorities are to attack people who are trying to help the current situation in the states as if Republicans wouldn't roundly scream "MARXISM" if the work was wholly accurate, because they'd still say framing U.S. history any way other than "muh flag, muh freedom" is just far left extremism.
Broseph is probably the one person on earth who sees Susan Collins saying she's "concerned" and thinks it's a meaningful statement, lmfao.
Would you agree that history teaching reform should always be done with the goal of improving true historical accuracy? Also would you agree characterizing the US as a fundamentally racist and white supremacist institution throughout its history is at the very least reductive if not grossly inaccurate?
I am not claiming those two things are necessarily in any way involved here. I am just curious about you answer to those questions?