Trump's 1776 Commission Meeting Despite Biden Abolition

Trump's 1776 Commission Meeting Despite Biden Abolition

Former President Donald Trump's 1776 Advisory Commission, charged with developing a more patriotic education curriculum, plans to continue meeting in Washington next week despite being abolished by President Joe Biden, the Washington Examiner reported Friday.

Trump created the commission to counter teaching critical race theory and curriculum pieces like The New York Times' 1619 Project in the nation's schools.

The commission's Executive Director, Matthew Spalding, told the Examiner that the commission still sees itself in a ''major role'' in the debate over how to teach American History in public and private schools.

''[The] 1776 Commission — comprised of some of America's most distinguished scholars and historians — has released a report presenting a definitive chronicle of the American founding, a powerful description of the effect the principles of the Declaration of Independence have had on this Nation's history, and a dispositive rebuttal of reckless 're-education' attempts that seek to reframe American history around the idea that the United States is not an exceptional country but an evil one,''







https://www.newsmax.com/politics/race-politics-trump-biden/2021/05/21/id/1022323/






I’m glad that the 1776 commission is going to openly defy the President of the United States and continue meeting and issuing papers. They must have found an alternative funding source. It’s great that there will be strong historian and academic backing for our true 1776 founding, documents, founders, and culture to counter the Anti American 1619 project propaganda.

 

The United States of America is an exceptional nation. Our wonderful 1776 founding envisioned a great nation a shining city on a hill building an ever more perfect Union over time.

 

OR

Both this and the 1619 project are just ways for people to stroke themselves.

 

I would like to see a commission that could re-envision the rebuild of America post WWII ... we have some young bucks here but plenty of us old guys that grew up in the 50s, and 60s for me ... damn good times ... hell, I thought all was good til the late 80s ...

 

Who said they couldn't meet and write up some crazy reports?

 

Yeah

The BEST way to deal with people like this is give them a board room an agenda and be sure there are enough people in that room to create an ongoing argument. Play it right and it will be about 5 years before they agree on anything beyond the type of coffee in the coffee machine

 

Congress might sue, it threatens their monopoly on writing crazy reports.

 

Much closer to the truth.

The 1619 Project is second or third rate history at best. While the work is not uniformly bad, it has quite rightly been strongly criticized by historians for its approach to the facts. There are parts of it that have worth, but taken as a whole it has little value. Schools can find better material.

The 1776 Commission is tenth rate propaganda that barely even tries to pretend it is history. The reaction of historians is generally to laugh or stand slack jawed in amazement that anyone should think something so poorly concieved & written should have any place in an informed nation. It is 100% political and has no redeeming qualities. The idea that it should be used as an educational aide is laughable.

 

That's the benevolent interpretation. The actual interpretation is that the 1619 "project" is the greatest anti-American propaganda effort to ever exist in our shores, and it came from our own. 1619 will go down similarly to Marxism, where Karl Marx, an American brought a great evil to the world unknowingly.

 

The only thing exceptional about this post is a string of unrelated platitudes which dull the meaning of an otherwise meaningless post. Real winner.

 

I never said my post was exceptional. I said that our country is and stand by all that I said about that.

 

Everybody stands by platitudes. That's what makes them platitudes. Where's the beef?

 

Well, no party would know that better than the democrats who stand on platitudes

 

So a smallish City, then? Actually, more like a modest town, and that's pushing it. Don't forget you have to get water up there.

Please allow me to recommend, at minimum, a decent plateau.

 

The 1619 project has the merit of being private project privately funded. I know there has been criticism of it with some historical disagreement (one of the main essays was corrected after some errors were pointed out). But I find that most of the people criticizing theproject have obviously never read it. Here is a link if ever anyone wants to read it. Many of these essays are not historical academia (there are for example some photo essays)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
The main essay written by Nikole Hannah Jones has received some historical criticisms which led to some corrections, but it is a very good essay, and well written, I recommend it
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/black-history-american-democracy.html
It's 10 pages. Perhpas all those blindly criticizing it without having read it should take the time to actually read part of the 1619 project.
Amazing how those who think that creationism should be taught in evolution (you know even though its wildly, demonstrably wrong we need to show that there are alternate explanations) all of a sudden become absolute sticklers for the facts and have attacked the 1619 project for very slight descrepancies.

The 1776 project is funded by the government (or was before biden cut the commission loose) why do small government conservatives all of a sudden applaud tax payers nd forced educationam standards? The 1776 project was deigned solely as a political tool. I don't know what it is worth as a teaching tool (though someone did point out that there are no profesional US historians on the commission) so I can't pronounce muself on that but the bellow exeprt does not bode well

 

our 1776 founding collapsed into the dumpster resulting in the Constitution in the late 1780's to save it from flying apart at the seams.

 

Good post. People with zero interest in facts make poor judges of what qualifies as factual. Thus we have the 1776 Commission, something designed to tell a bunch of conservatives stuff they want to hear regardless of accuracy.

 

The 1776 Commission?

Lolwut?

The 1776 Commission was an advisory committee established in September 2020 by then–U.S. President Donald Trump to support what he called "patriotic education". The commission, which included no historians specializing in United States history, released The 1776 Report on January 18, 2021, two days before the end of Trump's term. Historians condemned the report, saying it was "filled with errors and partisan politics".The commission was terminated by President Joe Biden on January 20, 2021.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_Commission

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They (just like the Bigfoot Convention) are free to do whatever they want.