12/13/2023 0 Comments Right wing pro slaveryTogether with capitalism they will be sunk. Race and racism emerged historically with capitalism to justify and to naturalize exploitation. Let us, as a point of departure, agree on a premise: Racism is an ideology constructed on a social categorization, race, that has no basis in science. Murder Incorporated has in the past few decades used the method of communal division with deadly effect in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Ukraine. The Times’ good friends at the CIA are well-practiced at this. Whatever Hannah-Jones’ intentions, the position that human beings are pitted in never-ending struggle based on the mythological category of race has, in the past century, provided the ideological justification for the murder of tens of millions all over the world. I use the word “balkanization” advisedly. Its aim is the racial balkanization of the American working class. In publishing the 1619 Project, the Times is in fact motivated by a very earthly concern. When the masses of the Middle East and Central Asia, and the families of American soldiers killed and maimed get their day in court, we expect that a few Times publishers, editors, and writers will sit in the dock alongside the likes of Bush, Blair, Obama and Clinton. It is up to its neck in the filth of American politics for example the neo-Victorian #MeToo sexual witch-hunt that it has organized and spearheaded and in the blood of American imperialism, having most infamously promoted as fact the “weapons of mass destruction” casus bellum for the war in Iraq, and having more recently joined in the persecution of journalist Julian Assange for daring to expose the imperialist lies it has propagated. It is the central media organ of the Democratic Party and American liberalism and, we must underline, the CIA. Indeed, the 1619 Project is already being spun off into various kinds of franchising and media programming, in collaboration with billionaire entertainment mogul Oprah Winfrey.īut the Times is more than just a media corporation. The Times is not a charity but a multi-billion-dollar media empire for which profits and share values are of utmost concern. The Times cares not a whit for teachers and children, as it has shown in its advocacy of deadly school reopenings amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Let us first write off with the contempt it deserves the Times’ assertion that it launched such a far-reaching rewriting of American history and social reality as an act of public service for school children. Beginning with that “original sin” in 1619, anti-black racism has been lodged “in the DNA” of “white Americans.” So much so, that today the inescapable racism of whites is the root cause of every conceivable social ill in America, from obesity to traffic jams. It was finally time to tell the truth: The year 1619, when the first slaves were brought to Colonial Virginia, was the “true founding” of the United States, and not the Revolution of 1776, which was in fact a counterrevolution waged to defend slavery against the abolitionist British Empire. This “new narrative” would supplant social studies curricula for students who, allegedly, had been denied real history through a racist monopoly of white historians. Nikole Hannah-Jones, the journalist-celebrity who was its public face, said that the 1619 Project would reframe all of American history as a race struggle waged by whites against blacks. The Times made grandiose claims for its flagship project. Two years ago this month the New York Times published its 1619 Project.
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