Quote:Schools across the country have embraced the 1619 Project, a far-left retelling of American history born in the New York Times’ pages.

Some Republicans in various states are crafting legislation to cut funding to schools with it in the curriculum.


Barbara Rodriguez reports at The 19th:

Republican state lawmakers want to punish schools that teach the 1619 Project

Lawmakers in several statehouses this year want to stop lesson plans that focus on the centrality of slavery to American history as presented in the New York Times’ 1619 Project, previewing new battles in states over control of civics education.

Republican lawmakers in Arkansas, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri and South Dakota filed bills last month that, if enacted, would cut funding to K-12 schools and colleges that provide lessons derived from the award-winning project.

Some historians say the bills are part of a larger effort by Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, to glorify a more White and patriarchal view of American history that downplays the ugly legacy of slavery and the contributions of Black people, Native Americans, women and others present during the nation’s founding.

Political battles have long been fought, largely in education boards, over how American students learn about everything from the Civil War to ethnic studies and health. But proposed legislation that would penalize schools for teaching curriculums based on the 1619 Project signals a new era of policy debate over civics education that may increasingly play out in state legislatures.

The 1619 Project directly ties to the push for Critical Race Training in schools, which is precisely why we recently launched the new site CriticalRace.org.

Now is also an excellent time to remember that the New York Times and 1619 author Nikole Hannah-Jones have already begun downplaying the project’s central claims and have admitted that the goal was always about controlling the narrative.

Republicans in this fight want students to learn America’s real history.

For example, in January, the Rapid City Journal reported that South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is making efforts to teach a positive message:

Gov. Kristi Noem has proposed $900,000 in one-time funds for curriculum to help meet her goal of teaching South Dakota’s students “why the U.S. is the most special nation in the history of the world.”

Noem stated her educational goals on Tuesday while delivering the governor’s annual State of the State Address to formally kick off the legislative session, an event which in years past was followed by a press conference and media availability, but less access this year.

The governor said she would task her administration with creating instructional materials and classroom resources on South Dakota history, civics, government, geography and economics and recommended spending $900,000 for curriculum in the speech to lawmakers.

North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson, who was in the news last week for pushing back on a false, leftist narrative, recently appeared on Newsmax to discuss the left’s efforts to warp the teaching of history:





As Robinson points out, Republicans are not trying to erase the bad aspects of America’s history but to teach that our founding documents and legal system helped us overcome those things.

Quote:Nikole Hannah-Jones, a staff writer for The New York Times, once used a slur for a black person in a tweet, an apparent violation of the newspaper’s standards that condemn use of the word “regardless of intent.”

Hannah-Jones’ tweet was resurfaced on Monday in a report by The Washington Free Beacon on an internal meltdown by Times staffers over the ousting of Times science writer Donald McNeil Jr. Hannah-Jones at first doxed the Free Beacon reporter who reached out to her for comment, then later apparently erased almost all of her Twitter history. The Free Beacon captured a screenshot of her tweet before Hannah-Jones removed it from her profile.

After a career at the Times spanning more than four decades, the paper’s leadership forced out McNeil on Friday over a two-year-old incident in which he used the racial slur. On a Times-sponsored trip to Peru for high schoolers, McNeil was asked whether a high schooler should be suspended for using the slur in a video made when they were 12 years old. In response, McNeil asked if she had been quoting a song or book when she used the term, using the term in his question.

Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet and Managing Editor Joe Kahn issued a memo on Friday saying that McNeil’s behavior was unacceptable and that no use of the term, regardless of the surrounding context, was appropriate.

“We do not tolerate racist language regardless of intent. We are committed to building a news report and company that reflect our core values of integrity and respect, and will work with urgency to create clearer guidelines and enforcement about conduct in the workplace, including red-line issues on racist language,” Baquet and Kahn said.

Hannah-Jones is the founder of the Times’ 1619 Project, an attempt to reframe American history and the founding of the United States from the principles outlined in the Declaration of Independence to the introduction of slavery in the U.S. The project asserts that the United States’ true founding came in 1619 when the first slave ship arrived in America. Historians have said the project is based on little evidence and is “profoundly flawed.”

In a May 2016 Twitter exchange, Hannah-Jones committed a similar violation as McNeil while defending a black comedian’s use of the n-word at the White House Correspondents Dinner: “Larry Wilmore did not say, ‘You did it, my n****r.’ Come on, now.” (While Hannah-Jones wrote out the full word, The Daily Wire has censored all but the first and last letters.)

In a follow-up tweet, she added, “I did watch and I did read the transcripts. I’m saying you know the linguistic difference b/w n****r and n***a.

It is unclear what action, if any, the Times plans to take against Hannah-Jones for her tweet. In addition, Hannah-Jones is not the only staffer other than McNeil to have used the slur in some capacity. Times reporter Astead Herndon has also reportedly used the term, according to the Free Beacon. The New York Times did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.