The study of history ought to be about understanding the past as it objectively was, warts and all. \u00a0 But as with science, all of knowledge is subjective and based on \u201cdifferent ways of knowing\u201d, including history. Even more broadly than science, history is subject to being presented as nothing more than competing myths and biased narratives.<\/p>\n
Such is the case of the infamous \u201c1619\u201d project, that is being taught as fact, or at least the correct<\/em> myth. It is a dishonest trick that presents facts without explicitly saying that it is a narrative<\/em> that uses facts to tell one of many possible stories, and that it\u2019s story is the morally correct one, as the person behind the \u201c1619\u201d admits.<\/p>\n \n Leave it up to you to offer the least perceptive take possible and to tweet a single tweet without its context. I wasn\u2019t arguing that the 1619 Project is trying to control THE national narrative. The point of this is about the people against 1619 who only want ONE narrative. https:\/\/t.co\/0QIsSZHxUt<\/a><\/p>\n — Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) July 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n