Mitch McConnell: 1619, American slavery starting point, not an important point in history

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday he doesn’t think 1619 is one of the most important points in U.S. history.

That's the year the first enslaved Africans were brought to and sold in the Virginia colony, a point often considered as the beginning of American slavery.

“I think this is about American history and the most important dates in American history. And my view — and I think most Americans think — dates like 1776, the Declaration of Independence; 1787, the Constitution; 1861-1865, the Civil War, are sort of the basic tenets of American history,” McConnell said during an appearance at the University of Louisville.

“There are a lot of exotic notions about what are the most important points in American history. I simply disagree with the notion that The New York Times laid out there that the year 1619 was one of those years.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mitch-mcconnell-1619-american-slavery-starting-point-not-an-important-point-in-history/ar-BB1gjGLf

[hlthe2b]

1. He may as well just tattoo a confederate flag on his forehead...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. That explains a lot. I can hardly imagine how Kevin M. Kruse is going to take this.

https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse

Oh, he has his hands full with Lauren Boebert. One can deal with only so many fools at one time.

Kevin M. Kruse Retweeted

I call this The Lauren Boebert Effect.

Link to tweet

[AZ8theist]

11. She's a congressMAN?

When did she have the sex change? Was it around the time they removed her brain?

[Progressive Jones]

19. I hate to defend that idiot Boebert, but "Congressman" could be the official title. Here in Chicago,

the city council is made up of "Aldermen", regardless of gender. To be honest, I've never heard anyone complain about it.

[AZ8theist]

20. True, but I've always heard the term "Congresswoman" as well

[Orangepeel]

3. the fact that he doesn't think so illustrates the importance of the project

[tulipsandroses]

4. The Caucasity!

Let me drop this right here for this racist pos.
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[EarlG]

5. Mitch McConnell said what?

[malaise]

6. Truth will out

Evil is as evil does

[Solly Mack]

7. Proof of what I said in another thread about Mitch and those like him.

Full exchange


McConnell, and many like him, want the same history they learned to continue to be taught

- when what they were taught was not history at all.

It was a narrative that served as a testimony to white men and taught in a manner that was wrapped in the flag and sung to the tune of the star-spangled banner.

It was more indoctrination than a factual telling of America's history.

History can be written as a lie. Look how the South rewrote the Civil War.

A history that leaves out people of color and women isn't history at all.

It is a tale told to shape views and establish a perspective that passes as fact but is rife with lies.

Some want the struggles for equality to taught as proof of growth and goodness - of moving toward a more perfect union. Case closed. They want collective credit for the outcome; a reflection on their own goodness.

When that's not what happened at all.

As for the bad? The actual events of history? Best that be glossed over lest someone or some event looks like the cause and not the solution. They want to be seen as the vehicle for change and not the impediment.

People were enslaved, beaten, murdered, raped, lynched, arrested, attacked, assaulted, homes firebombed and churches bombed.

All facts that some folks call too divisive to be taught.

Land stolen, treaties made in bad faith, populations killed and reduced in number all in the name of glory. Besides, they were “merciless Indian Savages". The Declaration of Independence says so - so it must be true, right?

What's the harm in a little innocent game of "cowboys and Indians"? It's not like it reinforces stereotypes or myths taught as history or paints a negative image of indigenous people, right? Right? Just all good fun. Nothing bad to see here. (Snort)

Ugly truth is, a lot of people got the whole "Leave it to Beaver, Donna Reed, Father Knows Best" brand of history which isn't history at all but a celebration of white life and culture - and even then, it didn't extend to all white people. And it didn't even bother with people of color or the actual status of women at all.

But it was the face of America that too many wanted to present to the world.

That the rest of us demand our rightful, truthful and factual, place in American history scares the crap out of people like McConnell.

They claim if you tell the truth about America that citizens will come to hate their country. That it will cause divisions. Never mind their version of history had division built into it for the purpose of dividing the nation into white people great - and some others also living in America.

But what they really mean is they fear people will come to hate those like him. That they'll resent being taught lies. That people will expect accountability for those lies. That people will break free of the bullshit and that means breaking free of people like McConnell.

[The Magistrate]

13. Hear Hear, Sir

[Solly Mack]

14. Thank you.

It's like your signature line - you have to call things by their actual names. Same with history.

[intheflow]

16. Fantastic post! Should be it's own OP. n/t

[uponit7771]

17. +1,

[malthaussen]

8. Everyone is entitled to his opinion. Yours is worthless, Mr McConnell.

Who would give credence to a con man pontificating on history, anyway?

-- Mal

[ShazamIam]

9. That is high level dissembling, he can't attack race based slavery as historical so

he attacks the date along with throwing in a creative talking point attacking the idea that it isn't an important date because we not a nation at that time. I don't think the publishers have claimed it is the most important date in our history.

McConnell is all Republican in the not wanting to mention how many of our founding fathers were slave holders, and slave holding Virginians in particular, something barely mentioned in our high school U.S. History books and why the 1619 project is needed
To a Republican, mentioning slave holding founders, is just liberals hating 'murica.

[AZ8theist]

10. You know what's an important date in history?

The day the United States FINALLY gets rid of the treasonous pig Moscow Mitch McConnell.

[turbinetree]

12. Hey #Moscoew Mitch I have some dates that are kind of important

I'll use the History channel platform you idiot, you just can't help yourself can you...you just like to besmirch anyone and everyone ......

Broken Treaties With Native American Tribes: Timeline
From 1778 to 1871, the United States signed some 368 treaties with various Indigenous people across the North American continent.

https://www.history.com/news/native-american-broken-treaties

I bet that you don't even know that the Constitution of this country was based on five nation confederacy of natives.....

https://www.history.com/news/iroquois-confederacy-influence-us-constitution

[ZonkerHarris]

15. How about 1865 Mitch?

[turbinetree]

18. Bet the idiot doesn't know when traitors signed unconditional surrender papers

April 9, 1865 he such a racist's POS ....

[Hassler]

21. Moscow Mitch likes Cancel Culture.

[Hortensis]

22. We weren't taught that in school, and almost certainly McConnell lacks any interest

in considering it now. Not the slightest. Not because he's an implacable racist, though.

McConnell's long been known to only be interested in gaining and using power. That's his thing. Power, not issues, not ideology, not racist passions, not welfare of the nation.

Some of this Republican majority leader's colleagues have said he's so little interested in the actual huge issues that come before them that he would not be able to hold up his end of a conversation about them. (!) But he doesn't waste his time with that.

A weirdo and very possibly a psychopath. Perhaps 1 out of every 25-30 people is diagnosable as being devoid of a conscience, and these days an appalling number of those seem to find their way to power through what's become a sociopathic Republican Party.

As for the authoritarians who're also clustering in today's GOP, whatever their own authorities in their background once taught them is true, the teachings stored as truth without examination and trotted out as needed without examination. And whatever their authorities did not teach them is not true.