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The 1619 Project Centers Black Lives So Anti-Blackness Rears Its Head
From the last piece discussing the entitlement white people have to be included in Black women’s spaces, we now again come across people of color who feels that spaces for Black people’s history, excellence — anything that centers Black people is also unfair to them. They use the same white supremacist technique of whataboutism and combine it with the oppression olympics/erasure and, since they are people of color, not everyone will realize they are regurgitating white supremacy dogma.
The release of the 1619 Project focuses on the history of the U.S. through Black people on the 400th anniversary and it makes an insightful case that slavery founded the U.S and shaped aspects of this country that still exist today.
It’s a powerful, painful look at our stories and our pain.
Natalie Diaz, in a since deleted tweet, stated that ignoring the history of Indigenous democracy, which predated the U.S. founding, is erasure. Creator of the project, Nikole Hannah Jones replied to the tweet correctly countering that writing about the history of Black people does not detract from what Native people went through.
