“1776 Commission” Pro-American History To Counter “The 1619 Project”

[DMK]

It is remembered and studied. We have black history month as well.

IMO, all aspects of history should be taught in school but it should not be politicized.

[coolidge]

I did. It actually is quite good spot on.

[Jezcoe]

@DMK

It is remembered and studied. We have black history month as well.

IMO, all aspects of history should be taught in school but it should not be politicized.

If it was studied and understood we wouldn’t have Andrew Jackson on our money and there would not be one statue honoring Confederates.

[merickson]

@thinkingman

@merickson

@thinkingman

“all men are created equal“

is it true or not?

Those who record birth weights would dispute that claim.

but gravity causes everyone to be pulled downward with the same acceleration

regardless of skin color

So you’re saying that the system keeps us all down equally?

[thinkingman]

@merickson

@thinkingman

@merickson

@thinkingman

“all men are created equal“

is it true or not?

Those who record birth weights would dispute that claim.

but gravity causes everyone to be pulled downward with the same acceleration

regardless of skin color

So you’re saying that the system keeps us all down equally?

no. but the system drags all of us down at the same rate unless we support ourselves

[DMK]

@Jezcoe

If it was studied and understood we wouldn’t have Andrew Jackson on our money and there would not be one statue honoring Confederates.

Maybe we should have one government approved television channel as well.

[DMK]

@thinkingman

no. but the system drags all of us down at the same rate unless we support ourselves

The “system” gives equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.

[Jezcoe]

@DMK

@Jezcoe

If it was studied and understood we wouldn’t have Andrew Jackson on our money and there would not be one statue honoring Confederates.

Maybe we should have one government approved television channel as well.

That is a silly response.

[DMK]

@Jezcoe

That is a silly response.

Perhaps I think yours was as well.

[thinkingman]

@DMK

@thinkingman

no. but the system drags all of us down at the same rate unless we support ourselves

The “system” gives equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.

exactly!

[PurpnGold]

@DMK

The “system” gives equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.

Not in 1776

[DMK]

@PurpnGold

Not in 1776

The foundation was established in 1776. A house worth a damn isn’t built overnight.

[PurpnGold]

@DMK

The foundation was established in 1776. A house worth a damn isn’t built overnight.

The US is 234 years old. ~180 of those years did not have “equal opportunity”

[SixFoot]

Do we all have equal opportunity now?

[DMK]

@PurpnGold

The US is 234 years old. ~180 of those years did not have “equal opportunity”

To this very day we are granted equal opportunity. To this very day and as far into the future or past as you can possibly see, that does not mean equal outcome.

[PurpnGold]

@DMK

To this very day and as far into the future or past as you can possibly see, that does not mean equal outcome.

This is an argument nobody is making, except for you.

[Bodecea]

@johnwk2

@PurpnGold

@johnwk2

Now, what is “ridiculous” in what I wrote above?

That men were still held as property for 90 years after the signing of the constitution simply for being a different color.

I wrote nothing of the sort. What I wrote was: . . . after the Revolutionary War and the Colonists gained their independence from foreign domination [the real culprit of slavery on American soil] and the United States was formed under the Article of Confederation in 1776 [officially ratified in 1781], the people within a number of the states, exercising their newly found freedom, quickly moved to share the blessings of liberty to all by abolishing slavery!

And what I wrote above is factually correct.

JWK

And made their black residents citizens with all the equal protection under the law?

[DMK]

@PurpnGold

This is an argument nobody is making, except for you.

Cool. I’ve always been an independent not a hive thinker.

[PurpnGold]

@DMK

Cool. I’ve always been an independent not a hive thinker.

Your argument is not relevant to the discussion. No one making the claim that minorities are seeking equal outcomes.

However equal opportunity (which was an argument you made) was non-existent in 1776 for black people.

[DMK]

@PurpnGold

Your argument is not relevant to the discussion.

Of course it is.

You just don’t like the outcome of the argument.