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larry phillips mugshotGUEST COLUMN, Larry Phillips, Kismet

 

The insidious power of Big Tech, the major media and anti-American newspapers is in its full glory at the moment – and many of the American people don’t have a clue what is happening, to them and their country.

The lies, censorship, blocking facts and creating cover-ups of Democratic Party scandals has convinced enough Americans to vote people into office who are more than willing to destroy America and her constitutional republic.

Here’s how Rowan Scarborough with The Washington Times put it in a Dec. 27, 2020, posting:

“Democrats, along with allies in Silicon Valley and the news media, have suppressed the Hunter Biden scandal despite mounting evidence that President-elect Joseph R. Biden’s son had secret, lucrative financial ties to oligarchs and a powerful communist-connected Chinese businessman.”

No big deal to the news controllers.

How do progressives intend to bring down America?

They infiltrate its schools and educational institutions over decades in order to teach anti-American values, such as identity politics, group think, pushing a cancel culture and outlawing free thought and free expression.

They – the true progressives and socialists – want pure communism, which denies individualism, Christianity (and eventually all religion), the rule of law, gun ownership by the masses and strict conformity to “their” agenda.

Nothing more blatantly proves this opinion than the 1619 Project, which was given birth in the bowels of the Grey Lady – The New York Times, a newspaper that is truly the poster child for “the enemy within.”

The project started with Nikole  Hannah-Jones, a staff writer for the New York Times Magazine.

“In December 2018, Hannah-Jones was rushing to finish a book project before the end of a temporary leave from the Times,” according to a Washington Post report. “She had been thinking about August 1619 ever since discovering the date in high school, on page 29 of Lerone Bennett’s ‘Before the Mayflower.’ That was when the White Lion merchant ship brought more than 20 enslaved Africans to the shores of Virginia.

“Seven months later, the 1619 Project had expanded to include a broadsheet section of the newspaper, a podcast series and a collaboration with the Pulitzer Center to develop a free school curriculum,” WAPO continued. “Hundreds of thousands of extra copies were shipped to libraries and museums. The issue’s 10 essays about the legacy of slavery (were mostly) penned by Black writers.”

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos savaged the project in an op-ed posted Dec. 29, 2020, at Foxnews.com.

“These insidious lies and more have been exposed and refuted by many scholars, including one of the project’s own fact-checkers,” DeVos wrote. “The 1619 Project contends that because of slavery, America’s ‘founding ideals of liberty and equality were false when they were written.’ It also states that ‘nearly everything’ about our country sprang forth from racism, and that our Founding Fathers and other early Americans in the colonies fought the Revolutionary War to ‘protect the institution of slavery.’”

Not only has DeVos pointed out the “lies” in the project, it has been debunked by numerous groups of history professors and intellectual archivists. Sadly, and as usual, the project was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.

This upset  Allen C. Guelzo, Ph.D.; a Visiting Fellow, Simon Center for American Studies and a Princeton University professor and acclaimed scholar of American history.

“The awarding of a Pulitzer Prize for commentary to Nikole Hannah-Jones for her lead essay in The New York Times Magazine’s ‘The 1619 Project’ comes on the heels of the severe criticism that has been heaped on the project by at least two groups of American historians, by African American activists (led by Robert Woodson and the 1776 Initiative), and by numerous other academics and journalists.” Guelzo wrote May 6, 2020, at www.heritage.org. “What is most surprising is that the Pulitzer has been awarded precisely for Hannah-Jones’ lead essay – even after one of the 1619 Project’s consulting historians pointed out errors that Hannah-Jones had waved away, forcing The New York Times to issue a ‘correction.’”

Former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich called The 1619 Project “propaganda” and suggested that the NYTimes was trying to brainwash readers.

Amazingly, thousands of copies of the 1619 Project have been shipped out to American schools, where many leftist boards of education are approving the project to be added as curriculum. 

More than 4,500 schools now use the Project 1619 curricula, according to the project.

Scary and sickening, especially in those states being ruled by socialist governors – like Kansas.

“Why this curious persistence in supporting a ‘project’ with so many defects?” Guelzo asked in his essay. “Among the most egregious of those errors are the claims that the American Revolution was designed to protect slavery. 

“That no shred of evidence for this assertion exists did nothing to discourage the energy with which it was promoted in Hannah-Jones’ lead essay,” Guelzo wrote. 

DeVos hit the nail on the head in her op-ed.

“From the beginning, this historical revisionist campaign was intent on infiltrating America’s schools and infecting young American minds,” she wrote. “It was easier to do because so few students were learning history or civics as they should.”

Wiping out our heritage and creating a narrative of racial hate and lies is just one of the methods the left is using – and has been for decades.

The question is: When are we the people going to stop it?

If we don’t take back our schools and universities, there is no hope of saving this republic. And you better believe that. 

Unfortunately, Big Tech, the Lame Stream Media, Hollywood, national commercial advertising agencies and more have a plan – and too many Americans are swallowing the dangerous swill.

Wake up before it’s too late.

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