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Unedited Thoughts on the Reaction to the Release of the 1619 Project
This isn’t a thinkpiece. This isn’t some well-researched essay citing outside sources and compilation of articles. This is just one of my reactions to all the political and social fuckshit that white people are engaging in to maintain the false image they have of themselves and their legacies.
What kills me about all this talk around the 1619 Project is that this is a fight about the white people’s history. This is WHITE PEOPLE’S HISTORY. It’s the part they don’t want to be accountable for as they continue to take credit for what they consider to be the “good” parts of their past.
That their “good” parts would not have happened without their violent and wholehearted commitment to progress at any cost is a methodology they still adhere to and practice is conveniently ignored.
They indoctrinate us, the masses, into seeing violence and exploitation as the only way to accomplish goals and numb us to the consequences. They accomplish this by making suffering the norm and claiming poverty is an individual moral failing that we bring onto ourselves through poor decision-making, rather than it being a crafted state to maintain a labor force vulnerable to their whims.
The white strategy has been to normalize violence against specific populations and then erase…
