4 thoughts on “The 1619 Project”

  1. Well, slavery is part of the Democratic Party’s DNA, and they were the ones who tried to start a country where slavery was an integral part of that country’s DNA. Fortunately, the product of that DNA was aborted by Lincoln and the Republicans.

  2. I can do a better single-issue job of explaining America and Europe, from the Middle Ages to today, or indeed, all of civilization from Egypt and Sumeria forward, by focusing just on beer.

    You see, there are five major steps in moving from home brewing, usually done by women, to industrial production and distribution. The development of property rights, urban culture, and local and national taxation were in some periods primarily centered around beer production and consumption…

    [skips 50 hours of the lecture]

    … which brings us to how Southern slaves combined their charcoal filtration process from African practice with Scottish and Irish distillation techniques to make Jack Daniels, still marketed as something connected to deep, rural roots. In contrast, many modern rappers endorse quite different distilled spirits toward high-end consumers, while beer ads often target quite narrow ethnic market segments, including soy boys in man buns who’ve given the once venerable IPA a distinct stigma.

    To poorly educated journalists, the splinter in their brains makes them think all of history can be explained by whatever hammer they happen to have in their hands. Their current hammer is an absolute disgust with white people, a level of self-loathing not shared by any other racial group on the planet, according to polling.

  3. I think the whole exercise is an overdone rationalization of the claim that wage slavery is slavery, like fake diamonds are diamonds.

    Also, I couldn’t find any credible numbers, but one wonders if there were more or less slaves in 1619 than today, world-wide.

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