"The Nonprofit Hijacking America’s 250th Birthday Celebration Is The 1619 Project On Steroids"
The U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission (also called America 250) was created to provide national coordination for next year’s commemorative events. Ostensibly, each state and territory has also appointed its own independent committee to plan more local contributions to the festivities. In reality, a minimum of 14 states have adopted programming recommendations from a single non-profit called the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH).
The motivation driving the AASLH’s recommendations is neither celebratory nor constructive. John Dichtl, the president and CEO of the AASLH, recorded a Zoom presentation in 2021 in which he explicitly outlined their goals. He describes 2026 as a “once in a generation opportunity to critically engage with our nation’s history,” and a chance to “foster critical awareness of our faults, past and present, and the changes we need to make now to move toward justice.”
You know what needs to be done.
In grade school we learned about slavery. We learned about the Indians. We learned about the Salem Witch trials. Later, in high school we learned about the internment of the Japanese-Americans. We learned about the Klan and Reconstruction.
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Well said, Steve. This country has been moving toward justice since its inception. I don’t know who told the people who have aligned themselves with organizations like AASLH (which I think probably require substantial fees to join) that a couple of hundred thousand years of violent human history would take only a couple of presidential terms to fix.
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