Sounds like more right-wing crap. The Trump cult isn’t real big on truth or facts, just extreme bias.
Deleted the first tweet in this thread — I should have said that Trump’s report includes an apologia or defense of slavery, not an apology.
— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) January 18, 2021
Here’s a link to the full report, released on MLK Day:https://t.co/Xt9QKT56yg
The Trump administration is marking Martin Luther King Day by putting out a report that defends the Founding Fathers for owning slaves and attacks the Civil Rights Movement. This is an administration racist to the core. https://t.co/k1sSMC1mgN
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) January 18, 2021
WH issues its 1776 report which is supposed to help “restore understanding” of American greatness. And not two weeks after Jan 6 there is this passage that says current division in the US calls to mind the disagreements in the “Civil War.” pic.twitter.com/uAx7nSsi0g
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 18, 2021
Trump’s 1776 Commission says historians pointing out the paradox of a nation founded on the idea of freedom denying freedom to Black people “has done enormous damage” to “our civic unity and social fabric.” pic.twitter.com/TQkMkNtBTt
— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) January 18, 2021
Not a single mention of Indigenous people in the 1776 Report.
— Jeff Ostler (@Jeff__Ostler) January 18, 2021
Native people do not exist in patriotic history.
Here is a page from the outgoing administration’s 1776 project, which was released on Martin Luther King Day: pic.twitter.com/3k6K5yAiDs
— Blake News (@blakehounshell) January 18, 2021
If you want to see what the co-option of antifascism for nefarious purposes looks like, look no further than the Trump administration's 1776 Project. pic.twitter.com/sVmF8KVFk4
— David “HINDSIGHT IS 2021” Walsh (@DavidAstinWalsh) January 18, 2021
The White House 1776 Report seems to regard calling the Founders hypocritical about slavery as worse for the country than actual slavery.https://t.co/xJ02meUw65 pic.twitter.com/xjF4GIiGeN
— Seth Masket (@smotus) January 18, 2021
OMG! The Civil Rights Movement had such promise, but then gave into Calhounism! pic.twitter.com/SWIjGBSaFz
— Seth Masket (@smotus) January 18, 2021
This is somehow even worse than I expected it to be. https://t.co/Kw0lek2HKo
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) January 18, 2021
Sad! 