Bob Woodson: Black History Month – here's how we celebrate resilience and the promise of 1776
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One year ago this week, a group of scholars, leaders and activists – mostly Black – gathered to defend our nation’s founding, inaugurating a movement we called 1776 Unites.
At the time, the catalyst for the gathering was the New York Times’ 1619 Project, which asserted that "Our founding ideals of liberty and equality were false when they were written," and that America’s promises were made in bad faith from the very beginning. Black Americans have within us the power to show America the way out of this depressing, nihilistic polarization foisted on us by those who profit off our division and anger. That proposition – which was eventually walked back by its author – threw gasoline on the fires of division in our nation. Today, the Project itself has faded into the rearview mirror enough that I don’t want to waste any more time discussing it.More Related News