The Trump administration released a pamphlet dubbed “The 1776 Report”, the final report of a civic education committee created last year, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Trump announced the 1776 Commission in September 2020 to promote “patriotic education”, and the report released on Monday is the culmination of his effort. In the new report, management cites as its opponent The New York Times‘”Project 1619″, a collection of historical journalism and essays that postulate the foundation of the United States not as the 1776 Constitutional Convention, but as the first touch of a slave ship off the American coast in 1619. The title test of the project won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for comment. The material in “The 1776 Report” says: “Turning to bitterness and judgment, distorted stories from people like Howard Zinn or the journalists behind ‘Project 1619’ prevented his students from learning to think inductively with a rich repository of cultural and historical information, and literary references … They disdain today’s students, just as they doubt the humanity, kindness or benevolence of America’s greatest historical figures. ”The pamphlet also warns against a“ parallel government ”in passages that echo President Donald Trump’s self-evident warnings against“ the deep state ”and compares contemporary racial justice activists to slavery advocates. The Trump booklet says, “In fact, there are mysterious similarities between 21st century identity policy activists and 19th century slavery apologists.”
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