Should Trump Defund Schools Pushing 1619 Project?
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. September 8, 2020
“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.” ~ The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, by Milan Kunedera
President Trump has threatened to defund any schools that teach the 1619 Project, a collection of essays, short fiction, and poems by the New York Times that claims 1619, not 1776, is the true date of our founding because that’s when the first slave ship arrived in the American colonies.
On July 4, 1776 the thirteen American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain for a long train of “repeated injuries and usurpations”. Those who know unrevised Southern history will see parallels between secession from England and secession of the South from the United States.
A week of earth worship has been in play around the world, celebrated even by religious communities who supposedly are dedicated to the worship of the “one true God.” Is it a coincidence that Earth Day is celebrated on the birthday of Vladimir Lenin instead of March 21, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere?
In the March 3rd Republican primary nearly 98% of Texas voters supported Proposition 7 which would prohibit the removal of historic monuments in Texas, including the Cenotaph.
There was a time when schools and businesses closed for the birthday of one of the South’s favorite sons – Confederate General Robert E. Lee, born in Virginia on January 19, 1807. This year his birthday was celebrated by only two Southern states, Alabama and Mississippi.
The hateful and disgraceful behavior of Democrat House Speaker and her comrades at Tuesday night’s State of the Union address is clear evidence of what life in America will be if Democrats gain control of the federal government in 2020 and any time later.
Thanks to Republicans, Texas will have no protection for its heritage. The House Calendar Committee chose not to schedule Senate Bill 1663, a historical monument preservation bill, for a vote in the final days of the legislative session.