Current Events > Mitch McConnell: 1619 was not an important date in history

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https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/551532-mitch-mcconnell-blasts-ny-times-says-1619-was-not-an-important-date

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says he disagrees with The New York Times that the year 1619 was one of the most important points in U.S. history, The Courier-Journal reports.

The New York Timess 1619 Project was started in 2019 and aims to reframe U.S. history around the arrival of the first slave ship and put the consequences of slavery and contributions of Black Americans at the center of our national narrative.

The first enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia in August 1619.

More recently, McConnell led more than three dozen Senate Republicans in calling for the Education Department to nix a proposed plan to offer grants to schools that include the project in their curriculum, arguing the project has been criticized by historians and puts ill-informed advocacy ahead of historical accuracy.

Actual, trained, credentialed historians with diverse political views have debunked the projects many factual and historical errors, such as the bizarre and inaccurate notion that preserving slavery was a primary driver of the American Revolution, a letter sent to U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona last week said.
McConnell reportedly spoke on the project Monday.

I think this is about American history and the most important dates in American history. And my view and I think most Americans think dates like 1776, the Declaration of Independence; 1787, the Constitution; 1861-1865, the Civil War, are sort of the basic tenets of American history, McConnell said at an appearance at the University of Louisville, according to The Courier-Journal.

There are a lot of exotic notions about what are the most important points in American history. I simply disagree with the notions The New York Times laid out there that the year 1619 was one of those years, he reportedly said.
McConnell noted that we all are concerned about racial discrimination, and it's something the country has been working more than 200 years to get past.

Were still working on it, and I just simply dont think thats part of the core underpinning of what American civic education ought to be about.

Remember when the Republican Party actually bothered to hide their racism?

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Remember when the Republican Party actually bothered to hide their racism?

no

But it was year Of the turtle

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Remember when the Republican Party actually bothered to hide their racism?

When would this have been

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Mitch the bitch is a c***donkey.

In other news, water is wet.

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Your topic title disagrees with what you posted

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Remember when the Republican Party actually bothered to hide their racism?

No I wasn't alive before the compromise of 1866.

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UnholyMudcrab posted...

When would this have been

Before the Southern Strategy maybe

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Houston posted...

Your topic title disagrees with what you posted

It doesn't. Stop trying to gaslight.

UberEats posted...

It doesn't. Stop trying to gaslight.

He's not actively trying to gaslight.

This is just the most illumination his poor brain is capable of producing.

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DrizztLink posted...

He's not actively trying to gaslight.

This is just the most illumination his poor brain is capable of producing.

Oooh nice... *finger snapping*

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Case in point.

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UberEats posted...

Actual, trained, credentialed historians with diverse political views

I'm skeptical

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DarkChozoGhost posted...

I'm skeptical

https://www.wsws.org/en/topics/event/1619

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I just simply dont think thats part of the core underpinning of what American civic education ought to be about.

Then you don't understand history.

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