The individual shown above is not a sister of Bozo The Clown, although she might appear to be one.  She is Nikole Hannah-Jones, the author of a New York Times piece called the “1619 Project”.   This bit of revisionist history would have us believe that the foundation of our nation did not occur on July 4, 1776, with the publishing of The Declaration of Independence, but rather in 1619, when the first Africans arrived in this country at Jamestown, Virginia and were sold to the colonists as slaves. 

This drivel is now being taught as part of the curriculum in many public school systems, as well as colleges and universities around the country, and will eventually be used as a justification for financial “reparations” paid to the descendants of former slaves.  To deny it’s validity automatically makes you of course, a racist!  Enough!  Just because you say, or even believe something is true doesn’t make it so.

Mark Levin had an excellent guest on his program last night.  It was Professor Peter Wood, who is president of The National Association of Scholars.  Professor Wood has just published a book titled “1620 – A Critical Response To The 1619 Project”.  In the book, using indisputable historical facts, Wood demolishes virtually all the assertions made by the author of the 1619 Project.

First, he explains that there were slaves in the Americas for thousands of years before the first Africans were brought to the Caribbean and North and South America by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the early  1500s.  Virtually all of the indigenous peoples enslaved others or were themselves enslaved by more powerful tribes.  The custom of slavery was known and practiced world wide in nearly every society from the dawn of recorded history and before.

So, white Europeans were not the first to enslave others.  Far from it.  Professor Wood goes on to explain that the Africans who were traded to the Jamestown colonists for provisions by an English pirate, who had taken them off a Spanish slaver and sold most of them in Bermuda prior to arriving in Jamestown, were not “enslaved” at all.  The colonists didn’t believe in the institution of slavery, so the Africans were instead made “indentured servants” and eventually earned their freedom in exactly the same way that many white indentured servants did, here on this continent and elsewhere.  That process eventually ended at the end of the 18th century.

The concept that slavery originated in what was to become The United States of America, and is an “Original Sin” which can never be fully atoned for by Caucasians, because they are “systemically racist”, is a lie.  Those who propose that notion are aware of that fact, but rely on an uneducated public to believe it.  By pushing this cancerous narrative, the New York Times and the rest of the leftist media are creating an atmosphere where rational debate on the subject is becoming impossible.

If you want to know what happens when that occurs, you only need to do some research about one date. December 20, 1860.