My Entry Into The 1619 Project At The New York Times

For a while, I thought that the 1619 Project at the New York Times was created by a collection of racially-obsessed lunatics who cherry-pick historical tidbits and then add to it with portions wholly invented from the dark recesses of their sick minds, but no more. I now see the error of my ways.

What persuaded me was the silent acquiescence of our academies. The fact that not a single historian is publishing rebuttals to the NYT's effort to show us how America is foundationally based on racism and slavery showed me how wrong I was. After all, our universities cannot possibly be full of pusillanimous weasels who are willing to trade their integrity for a fat paycheck. It cannot also be full of knaves and charlatans who are too ignorant or too stupid to read source material from the past. Finally, it cannot either be full of crazed zealots who have adopted the Nazis' mania for race.

It must be true. That's the only possibility. With that in mind I have adapted a similarly-inclined great thinker's work to fit the 1619 Project. Enjoy.

If we divide mankind into three categories--founders of culture, bearers of culture, and destroyers of culture--the African alone can be considered as representing the first category. It was he who laid the groundwork and erected the walls of every great structure in human culture. Only the shape and color of such structures are to be attributed to the individual characteristics of the various nations. It is the African who has furnished the great building-stones and plans for the edifices of all human progress; only the way in which these plans have been executed is to be attributed to the qualities of each individual race.

Within a few decades, the whole of the European colonies in North and South America, for instance, appropriated a culture and called such a culture its own, whereas the basis of that culture was the African mind and skill as we know it. Only the external form--at least to a certain degree--shows the traits of European inspiration. It is not true, as some believe, that America adds African technique to a European culture. The truth rather is that African science and techniques are just decked out with the peculiar characteristics of European civilization.

The foundations of actual life in America today are not those of the European culture, although this characterizes the external features of the country, which features strike the eye of observers; but the real foundations of contemporary American life are the enormous scientific and technical achievements of Africa, that is to say, of African peoples. Only by adopting these achievements as the foundations of their own progress could America take a place in contemporary world progress. The scientific and technical achievements of Africa provide the basis on which the struggle for daily livelihood is carried on in America. They provide the necessary arms and instruments for this struggle, and only the outer forms of these instruments have become gradually adapted to American ways of life.

Hmm. Looks about right. Here's the original source material.

If we divide mankind into three categories--founders of culture, bearers of culture, and destroyers of culture--the Aryan alone can be considered as representing the first category. It was he who laid the groundwork and erected the walls of every great structure in human culture. Only the shape and color of such structures are to be attributed to the individual characteristics of the various nations. It is the Aryan who has furnished the great building-stones and plans for the edifices of all human progress; only the way in which these plans have been executed is to be attributed to the qualities of each individual race. Within a few decades the whole of Eastern Asia, for instance, appropriated a culture and called such a culture its own, whereas the basis of that culture was the Greek mind and Teutonic skill as we know it. Only the external form--at least to a certain degree--shows the traits of an Asiatic inspiration. It is not true, as some believe, that Japan adds European technique to a culture of her own. The truth rather is that European science and techniques are just decked out with the peculiar characteristics of Japanese civilization. The foundations of actual life in Japan to-day are not those of the native Japanese culture, although this characterizes the external features of the country, which features strike the eye of European observers on account of their fundamental difference from us; but the real foundations of contemporary Japanese life are the enormous scientific and technical achievements of Europe and America, that is to say, of Aryan peoples. Only by adopting these achievements as the foundations of their own progress can the various nations of the Orient take a place in contemporary world progress. The scientific and technical achievements of Europe and America provide the basis on which the struggle for daily livelihood is carried on in the Orient. They provide the necessary arms and instruments for this struggle, and only the outer forms of these instruments have become gradually adapted to Japanese ways of life.

Nope. No lunacy there. None at all. Just pure, unadulterated truth.

How fortunate Mankind is to be so full of rationality that advanced nations could never, ever fall for the ravings of racist madmen. If that was possible, we might have to fear for America at the hands of the NYT and academia.

Whew! Dodged that bullet.