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From: alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com

The New York Times Magazine

The 1619 Project

In August of 1619, a ship appeared on this horizon, near
Point Comfort, a coastal port in the British colony of
Virginia. It carried more than 20 enslaved Africans, who
were sold to the colonists. No aspect of the country that
would be formed here has been untouched by the years of
slavery that followed. On the 400th anniversary of this
fateful moment, it is finally time to tell our story
truthfully.

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The 1619 Project

The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York
Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of
American slavery. It aims to reframe the country's history,
understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the
consequences of slavery and the contributions of black
Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves
about who we are.

Photograph by Dannielle Bowman

Our democracy's founding ideals were false when they were
written. Black Americans have fought to make them true.

Essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones

If you want to understand the brutality of American
capitalism, you have to start on the plantation.

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Essay by Matthew Desmond

"I slide my ring finger from Senegal to South Carolina &
feel the ocean separate a million families."

From a poem on the Middle Passage by Clint Smith. Read more
original literary works created for the 1619 Project.

Myths about physical racial differences were used to
justify slavery -- and are still believed by doctors today.

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Essay by Linda Villarosa

America holds onto an undemocratic assumption from its
founding: that some people deserve more power than others.

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Permalink: https://nyti.ms/2H4KijC

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
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