Feb 3, 2023
The "reframing" of U.S. history by Nikole Hannah-Jones has been turned into a miniseries. Hulu's "The 1619 Project," with Oprah Winfrey as one of the executive directors, uses six episodes discussing "Democracy", "Race," "Capitalism," "Music," "Fear," and "Justice" to inform the ignorant masses about how racist our country has been from its inception (which Hannah-Jones claims was effectively the year 1619) and just how much black Americans are better than whites. In a Q&A session, Hannah-Jones's worldview is summed up in this thesis statement: "I just want us to be liberated by the knowledge of what we were built upon because if you understand that all the inequality we see - that the divisiveness, the fact that one political party doesn't seem to believe in democracy anymore - that this whole society was created, that it's not innate. It's not inevitable. … Then you know t