{"id":11771,"date":"2020-06-20T02:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/call-them-the-1619-riots\/"},"modified":"2020-06-20T02:52:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T23:52:00","slug":"call-them-the-1619-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/call-them-the-1619-riots\/","title":{"rendered":"#Call them the 1619 riots"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Call them the 1619 riots<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n America is burning. Rioters set fire to police stations and restaurants. Looters have ravaged shops from coast to coast. And now they\u2019re coming for the statues \u2014 not just of Confederate general<\/a>s, but the republic\u2019s Founders, including George Washington, whose statue was torn down in Portland, Ore.<\/p>\n

Call them the 1619 riots.<\/p>\n

The justified indignation over George Floyd\u2019s killing has led to calls for policing reform and for the country to do better at fulfilling its principles. But the reaction hasn\u2019t stopped with those worthy and noble objectives. It has surged well beyond to an \u00adattack on the principles themselves, which allegedly give rise to \u201csystemic racism.\u201d<\/p>\n

But what is \u201cthe system\u201d that generates and supports systemic racism? A considered answer is rarely given. Black Lives Matter (the organization, not the slogan) and its academic and media<\/a> supporters do have some answers, however.<\/p>\n

One is that \u201cwhiteness\u201d itself is to blame, or at least \u201cwhite privilege\u201d and \u201cwhite supremacy.\u201d That is the explanation offered by the Black Power movement of the 1960s and by the likes of Louis Farrakhan and campus identity hucksters today. But the cruel thesis that the white race is \u201cthe cancer of human history,\u201d as Susan Sontag once put it, is belied by history and reason.<\/p>\n

So who else can they get at? Well, an easier target is one particular set of privileged, white males: the American Founders. The system at the root of systemic racism, the radicals argue, is the American one, beginning with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. America, they claim, was born a racist nation and remains one today.<\/p>\n

This slander is the dominant opinion among woke millennials and is on its way, alas, to becoming mainstream. Former President Barack Obama wrestled with it, not very successfully, in his 2008 speech trying to disentangle himself from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who had preached \u201cGod damn America!\u201d to the future president and his family for 20 years.<\/p>\n

The most prominent proponent of the argument is The New York Times\u2019s 1619 Project, named after the year the first black slaves arrived in America. Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Times reporter who leads the project, has argued that \u201cthe year 1619 is as important to the American story as 1776.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her editor, Jake Silverstein, has backed her to the hilt. Black slavery \u201cis sometimes referred to as the country\u2019s original sin,\u201d he asserted, \u201cbut it is more than that: It is the country\u2019s very origin. Out of slavery \u2014 and the anti-black racism it required \u2014 grew nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional,\u201d especially \u201cits astonishing penchant for violence\u201d and \u201cits endemic racial fears and hatreds.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, 1619 is not \u201cas important\u201d as 1776; it is far more important and more revealing. American slavery is the deeper truth of American freedom. It doesn\u2019t get more systemic than racism being in \u201cthe very DNA of this country,\u201d as Hannah-Jones claims.<\/p>\n

A Who\u2019s Who of American historians, led by impeccable liberals like Sean Wilentz, Gordon Wood and James McPherson, quickly objected to Project 1619\u2019s untruths. Their criticisms forced a muted, microscopic correction from the Times, but couldn\u2019t slow the spread of the project\u2019s \u00adlibels into classrooms across the country.<\/p>\n

Even Republicans have begun to smear America as racist \u2014 members of the very political party formed to redeem the promise of the Declaration and put slavery on the course of ultimate extinction. There was such a thing as white supremacy in our politics, and Abraham Lincoln confronted it when he argued against Stephen Douglas. But for politicians of all strip<\/a>es it is becoming easier to blame America first than to defend her honor, as Lincoln did.<\/p>\n

There is a kind of despair, both angry and frightened, haunting the public mind today. After all, if the problem\u2019s in our DNA, there\u2019s precious little we can do about it. Let\u2019s not kid ourselves. The rioters who commit the violence drew one conclusion from that premise: If justice is out of the question, the next best thing is payback, snatching from the oppressor\u2019s hand whatever loot they can.<\/p>\n

The radicals aren\u2019t far behind with their politics of \u201canti-racism\u201d \u2014 a more or less permanent system of racial spoils, protected by speech codes banning criticism as racist \u201chate speech.\u201d<\/p>\n

The alternative is to reconsider the premise: America is not systemically racist, but is a republic devoted, however imperfectly, to the truth that all men are created equal.<\/p>\n

Charles Kesler is professor of government at Claremont McKenna College and editor of The Claremont Review of Books. <\/em>\n <\/div>\n

Source : <\/span>https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/06\/19\/call-them-the-1619-riots\/<\/p>\n

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