#1776

I don't man to belabor this, but Nikole Hannah-Jones has said the right invented the idea that 1619 project is about replacing 1776 as true date of founding. Here is
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The framing of the #1619Project remains the same today as when we published in Aug. 2019: We acknowledged 1776 as this nation's official founding but asked readers to imagine what
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The Enlightened Bibi Bhani Written in 1776 by the descendants of Guru Amardas, the Mehima Prakash, mentions a story where Bibi Bhani (Guru Amardas's daughter) was blessed with enlightenment following
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A brief thread if that’s okay. I’ve been thinking about the Founders and about the end of slavery and of Jim Crow. It’s in vogue these days to cast aspersions
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Annoyingly, Nikole Hannah-Jones blocked me on Twitter today before posting more mischaracterizations of our recent disagreements about 1619 vs 1776. I'd hoped and intended to leave things at my last
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i gave in and bought animal crossing :p SW-2862-1776-0403 @ToThe_Stage
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Hidden Curriculum: Random White History Thread https://twitter.com/coachwilmore_/status/1134551407057604610 #1: Illuminati (Part 1)Illuminati just means enlightened one. Adam Weishaupt founded the org in 1776. His motives were to shape popu
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I would have given some of you twelve hundred bucks just to agree with me that it's pretty stupid to be freaked out about a virus that isn't even harming
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With Hamilton back in the discourse, I'm reminded how few people know the story of Mary Lindley Murray (or "Mrs. Murray,") for whose family the Murray Hill neighborhood is named,
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GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: SOPHIE GERMAIN, 1776-1831. #GWOM Marie-Sophie Germain was born in 1776 in Paris. During the French Revolution, she was confined to her home, for safety. She used
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Anybody else feeling like this would be a great time for the U.S. to be conquered? Like not a violent war, just a really peaceful takeover — more like an
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I’ll note, again, the effort to conflate the entire magazine issue with its lead essay — and really, a single sentence in that essay — a transparent attempt to discredit
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I'm seeing some serious misrepresentations in my feed, so let's clear things up. Jamaica, under England rule after 1655, engaged in chattel slavery, first w/ indigenous Taino, and then captured
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The 1619 project may be the first example of a country telling kids a "noble lie" about history that is WORSE - not better - than the reality. The USA
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The president is denouncing critical race theory on national television—and elevating this intellectual fight into a major campaign theme.The battle-lines are drawn: we can embrace the principles of 1776 or
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I've found everything, Bill. All the sites you tried to scrub from the internet.All the initiatives you are trying to pull. I don't know about the rest of you, but
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