This is the overwhelming irony of things like the "1619 Project". Oh, please, tell us more about how events four-hundred years ago are fundamental to understanding the present, except for how Democrats were (and still are, of course, but even by their own "switcheroo" logic) the party of sedition and slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation up till (again, according to their story) the late 1960s. That incredibly recent history doesn't matter--something centuries earlier is far more important. And of course please disregard how Chinese, Irish, Italian, and Polish immigrants (among others) were mistreated and looked down on far more recently than four centuries. Nothing to see here, folks!
This is the overwhelming irony of things like the "1619 Project". Oh, please, tell us more about how events four-hundred years ago are fundamental to understanding the present, except for how Democrats were (and still are, of course, but even by their own "switcheroo" logic) the party of sedition and slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation up till (again, according to their story) the late 1960s. That incredibly recent history doesn't matter--something centuries earlier is far more important. And of course please disregard how Chinese, Irish, Italian, and Polish immigrants (among others) were mistreated and looked down on far more recently than four centuries. Nothing to see here, folks!
Our problem is we attempt to apply logic to these things, but the Leftist use none of that. Gets in the way of their drug induced emotions.