Members of President Trump
Donald Trump Giuliani used provisional ballot to vote in the 2020 election, the same method that he discredited in the fight to overturn the results. retire MOREThe 1776 Commission is calling for “a patriotic education that teaches the truth of America” and identifying “progressivism” and “racism and identity politics” among the challenges to America’s principles.
The commission, officially created by Trump in November, argues in a report disclosed on the federal holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, that Americans must “face petty tyrants in all spheres that require us to speak only of America’s sins, while denying their greatness”, without “ignoring the failures of our past. “
The report also condemns allegations that the Founding Fathers were “hypocrites” for promoting rights and freedoms for “all men” while advocating the practice of slavery.
“This accusation is false and has caused enormous damage, especially in recent years, with a devastating effect on our civic unity and social fabric,” writes the commission.
“Many Americans are under the illusion that slavery was somehow an exclusively American evil,” continue the authors.
“It is essential to insist from the beginning that the institution be seen from a much broader perspective,” they wrote, adding that “the unfortunate thing is that the institution of slavery has been more the rule than the exception throughout human history” .
The report goes on to say that “historical revisionism that tramples on honest scholarship and historical truth shames Americans by highlighting only the sins of their ancestors and teaches allegations of systemic racism that can only be eliminated by further discrimination, is an ideology designed to manipulating opinions more than educating minds. ”
The commission then rebukes the “identity policy”, which argues “teaches that America itself is to blame for oppression”.
“First, the identity policy credo defines and divides Americans in terms of collective social identities. According to this new creed, our racial and sexual identities are more important than our common status as individuals equally endowed with fundamental rights, “argue members of the commission, adding that the identity policy” divides Americans into two groups: oppressors and victims ”.
“Identity policy divides Americans, perpetually putting them in conflict with one another,” write the authors. “All Americans, and especially all educators, must understand identity policy for what it is: rejection of the principle of equality proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence.”
The commission, chaired by a longtime ally Trump Larry Arnn and former Vanderbilt University law professor and conservative television analyst Carol Swain, also include other high-profile conservatives, including activist Charlie Kirk, Mississippi governor, Phil Bryant (R) and Brooke Rollins, adviser to Trump’s domestic politics.
The 1776 Commission was formed as a response to Project 1619 of The New York Times Magazine, which focuses on the country’s history of slavery and racism. Trump said Project 1619 teaches students to “hate their own country”, although supporters have said he urges the country to face its complicated past.
The commission’s objective, as stated in Trump’s November executive order It’s “to better enable a new generation to understand the history and principles of the founding of the United States in 1776 and thereby form a more perfect Union ”.
Although Trump’s nominations on the commission are two years, it is unclear whether the group will meet again when the president-elect Joe Biden
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