Fellow American,
Is there anyone who will stand up to the radical left?
In the past 10 days, you and I have watched as extremist left-wingers have unleashed terrifying nights of riots, looting, and arson across American cities … while most so-called “leaders” watch, safe and from afar, afraid to condemn them for their terrible behavior.
But what’s most chilling is to realize that this movement began in classrooms — and could even affect our own kids and grandkids.
America’s elites have used colleges and universities for a generation to create and enforce a rotten culture of far-left ideology, reactionary and extreme politics, and vicious punishments for those who speak up against them. The tactics they’ve used on campuses now guide their horrifying efforts to tear apart our cities and our country.
And they won’t stop there.
Have you heard of the 1619 Project? If you haven’t yet, it’s highly likely that your kids or grandkids have. It’s the left’s new favorite fake history program … and it’s already in schools across America.
The 1619 Project was launched by The New York Times last year with a splashy PR campaign that included an Academy Awards commercial and a much-hyped roll-out of essays, a podcast, and K-12 teaching tools. There was a book deal in there, too.
You can bet the coastal elites and the gatekeepers of media, academia, and Hollywood — yes, the same “leaders” who have now surrendered in the face of the extreme left — embraced it wholeheartedly.
But the premise of the 1619 Project is cruelly and completely inaccurate: that America was founded to protect slavery, not to advance God-given rights and self-government.
No scholar of American history could find evidence for the 1619 Project’s outrageous central claim.
Numerous organizations published detailed rebuttals of the project’s supposedly key points. A group of distinguished American Revolution historians, Gordon Wood and James McPherson among them, sent a concerned letter to the Times.
Yet it wasn’t until months later when a professor published a sharply titled piece — “I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me.” — that the Times issued a correction.
Oops. I meant “update.”
That’s what the Times called it when they had to face facts and undercut the central premise of the 1619 Project. But even that setback won’t deter them from their real goal.
Rather than teach the next generation to grapple honestly and vigorously with our nation’s complex history — and our shared, imperfect progress to truly fulfilling the principles of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution — students are encouraged to disavow our independence, our Founding Fathers, and our free, open, and prosperous market system.
The ultimate, though unstated, goal of the 1619 Project seems to be to tear down America in the eyes of our kids and grandkids … so the far left can “re-make” our nation to fit their radical ideology.
That’s not history. That’s indoctrination.
And sadly, we’ve all seen the real-world consequences of that now.
Terry Schilling
Executive Director
American Principles Project
2800 Shirlington Road, Suite 1201
Arlington, VA | 22206
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