{"id":1330941,"date":"2022-02-23T08:06:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T13:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1330941"},"modified":"2022-02-23T08:07:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T13:07:57","slug":"mary-grabar-1619-project-creator-nikole-hannah-jones-on-parental-rights-transparency-for-me-but-not-for-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mary-grabar-1619-project-creator-nikole-hannah-jones-on-parental-rights-transparency-for-me-but-not-for-thee\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Grabar: 1619 Project Creator Nikole Hannah-Jones on Parental Rights: Transparency for Me, but Not for Thee"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmary-grabar-1619-project-creator-nikole-hannah-jones-on-parental-rights-transparency-for-me-but-not-for-thee%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1330941&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/41a65f2d-d9c6-4e9d-902f-af6ccd42ff39.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<aside id=\"aside1\" class=\"left aside-wrapper aside-wrapper-950\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>In the preface to the recently published bestselling hardcover edition of <em>The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story<\/em> Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones uses an incident from 2015 to demonstrate what she claims is a need for The 1619 Project.<\/p>\n<p>The incident involved Roni Dean-Burren who was alerted by her teenage son to a caption in his geography textbook that read, \u201cThe Atlantic Slave Trade between the 1500s and 1800s brought millions of workers from Africa to the Southern United States to work on agricultural plantations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The number of Africans brought not only to the Southern United States but to all the British North American colonies, and then the states are grossly exaggerated here; it is not \u201cmillions\u201d but about 400,000.<\/p>\n<p>But that was not the concern. Dean-Burren opposed the choice of the word, \u201cworkers.\u201d A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2015\/10\/05\/immigrant-workers-or-slaves-textbook-maker-backtracks-after-mothers-online-complaint\/\">Washington Post<\/a> article cited by Hannah-Jones quoted Dean-Burren, who charged the publisher with \u201cerasure\u201d and \u201cretelling\u201d history in the way \u201cthe winners would like it told.\u201d\u00a0Reporter Yanan Wang explained, \u201cIn calling slaves \u2018workers\u2019 and their move to the United States \u2018immigration,\u2019 [Dean-Burren] noted in viral Facebook posts . . . the textbook suggests not only that her African American ancestors arrived on the continent willingly, but also that they were compensated for their labor.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Minimizing slavery,\u201d said the Black Lives Matter hash-tagging mom, was \u201ca way of saying those black lives, those black bodies, that black pain didn\u2019t matter enough to give it a full description.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After two days of outrage on Facebook, McGraw-Hill Education announced that a review showed that \u201c\u2018our language in that caption did not adequately convey that Africans were both forced into migration and to labor against their will as slaves.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe we can do better,\u201d the statement continued. They promised to update the caption in the textbook\u2019s digital version and then in the next print run to \u201cdescribe the arrival of African slaves in the U.S. as a forced migration and emphasize that their work was done as slave labor.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dean-Burren gave the company a \u201cthumbs up for listening,\u201d but wanted them to go further, to recall the books and send out a supplement because few students used the digital version and another print version would not be coming out for another decade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This was for <em>one word<\/em> in a textbook. Since it was only on this page that the word choice was noted, we can assume that the other material in the textbook made it clear that these were <em>enslaved<\/em> \u201c<em>workers<\/em>,\u201d among other <em>types<\/em> of <em>workers<\/em>, indentured and free.<\/p>\n<p>Without acknowledging the company\u2019s response, Hannah-Jones presents the incident as an example of the alleged \u201cconfusing and obfuscatory (sic) way school curricula tend to address the institution of slavery.\u201d Per <em>The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story<\/em>, McGraw-Hill remains guilty of referring to \u201cAfrican people brought to the Americas in the bowels of slave ships not as the victims of a forced migration who were violently coerced into labor but as \u2018workers,\u2019 a word that implies consensual and paid labor.\u201d The incident stands as Exhibit A for the need for Hannah-Jones\u2019s ostensibly corrective history. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 1619 Project when it was first published as a special issue of the <em>New York Times Magazine<\/em> on August 18, 2019, came with ready-made lessons that were injected immediately into 3,500 schools across the country\u2014without the usual writing and review process that textbook publishers like McGraw-Hill undertake and certainly without any vetting by parents. Woke teachers eagerly adopted the lessons for the Project that displays American history in racially charged language, with the founders described as \u201censlavers,\u201d plantations \u201cforced-labor camps,\u201d and this nation a \u201cslavocracy.\u201d Sweeping charges are made about \u201cwhite Americans,\u201d who \u201cstrung [black people] from trees, beat them and dumped their bodies in muddy rivers, assassinated them,\u201d and on.<\/p>\n<p>Some districts, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbfo.org\/education\/2020-01-17\/your-story-is-in-the-textbooks-ours-isnt-buffalo-schools-adopt-the-1619-project\">Buffalo<\/a>, New York, even began mandating it. Yet, today Hannah-Jones does not want parents \u201cdeciding what\u2019s being taught,\u201d as she said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/news\/meet-press-december-26-2021-n1286601\">Meet the Press<\/a>, where she echoed failed Democratic candidate for Virginia governor, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/27\/1619-project-head-hannah-jones-questions-parents-role-in-schooling\/\">Terry McAuliffe<\/a>. Today, Hannah-Jones wants decisions made by \u201cpeople who have an expertise in the subject area.\u201d She said she trusted her daughter\u2019s teachers because she herself is \u201cnot a professional educator,\u201d Yet, Hannah-Jones herself has conducted numerous\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2022\/01\/gift-mendacious-nikole-hannah-jones-conservative-mary-grabar\/\">teacher<\/a> workshops on using her own creation, The 1619 Project, in classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>She has continued the campaign against transparency laws on Twitter. On January 10, she responded to Christopher Rufo\u2019s tweet advocating for \u201ccurriculum transparency\u201d as a way to \u201cdeflate\u201d the argument about \u201cbans\u201d and \u201cbait the Left into opposing \u2018transparency.\u2019\u201d Hannah-Jones stated, \u201cI hope journalists do a better job reporting on this than they did the original CRT propaganda campaign.\u201d On January 20, Hannah-Jones opined, \u201cThe anti-CRT propaganda campaign is being called out for what it is, so they\u2019re changing the tactics to maintain a veneer of legitimacy by pretending all they want now is \u2018transparency.\u2019\u201d Parents could just ask the teacher, she suggested rather flippantly. On January 23, she again commented on Rufo\u2019s statement claiming that transparency bills would \u201cforce ideological actors to undergo public scrutiny.\u201d We should just accept these bills at \u201cface value,\u201d she said, sarcastically.<\/p>\n<p>For Hannah-Jones transparency laws, ironically, constitute \u201crepression and suppression of truth,\u201d as she told Chuck Todd. All efforts to scrutinize her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.regnery.com\/9781684511778\/debunking-the-1619-project\/\">demonstrably<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/1619-Project-Critique-Phillip-Magness\/dp\/1630692018\">false<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/1620-True-Beginning-American-Republic\/dp\/1641771240\">history<\/a> are\u00a0part of a \u201cRepublican propaganda campaign\u201d against \u201cthe teaching of more accurate history.\u201d\u00a0During \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/wireStory\/ap-interview-nikole-hannah-jones-warning-democracy-81784848\">The AP Interview<\/a>,\u201d she charged that \u201cpowerful people\u201d were seeking to \u201cdiscredit\u201d and \u201ccensor\u201d her work. The charge of \u201ccensorship\u201d has become a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/11\/coming-defense-nikole-hannah-jones-woody-holton-mary-grabar\/\">mantra<\/a> for Hannah-Jones, even when it comes to parental rights, the same rights she championed for Dean-Burren.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The question remains: if Dean-Burren was allowed to see her son\u2019s textbook and get the publisher to make changes with more accurate language, why can\u2019t other parents today? \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the preface to the recently published bestselling hardcover edition of The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones uses an incident from 2015 to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}