The lead author for the 1619 Project is Nikole Hannah-Jones, who has been writing anti-white diatribes, at least since she was a college sophomore. In a letter to her college paper, she alleged: “The white race is the biggest murderer, rapist, pillager, and thief of the modern world.” Not only were the white people in America’s past “barbaric devils,” but the “descendants of these savage people” continue to harm “the Black community” to this day. Non-white people, by contrast, were uniformly portrayed as both virtuous and victimized.
The 1619 Project basically tries to label all whites as racist at birth – predestinated, though still others would call out to only to varying degrees.
The 1619 Project has been introduced a new form of black supremacy to American history, and it has been adopted by over 4,500 schools. Anyone who has been paying attention to corporate culture in America cannot but has noticed the increasing pressures to “diversify” the hiring and promotion process, often by explicitly demanding that white (especially white male) employees be held back. The Economist has reported on the “dizzying number of equity-related” hiring commitments promised by American businesses. Facebook alone “has promised to hire 30% more black people in leadership positions.”
The 1619 Project is being fully absorbed as the defacto ideology of truth in academia and business, though it is meeting resistance in many public forums (i.e., local school boards).
But are certain races predestinated to be anything at birth?
In Christian theology, predestination is the divine foreordaining of all that will happen, especially concerning the salvation of some and not others. It has been particularly associated with the teachings of St. Augustine of Hippo and of Calvin.
But this is a religious view. Predestination has made its way into the secular world. This is the notion that our personality, character, intelligence, or behaviors are primarily of genetics and not so much our environment. The age-old question with the notion of secular predestination – are we nature or nurture?
A 1986 study that was part of the larger Minnesota study found that genetics plays a larger role in personality than previously thought. Environment affected personality when twins were raised apart but not when they were raised together, the study suggested. Another study, commissioned by the editor of the journal Science, looked at genetics and IQ. The Minnesota researchers found that about 70 percent of IQ variation across the twin population was due to genetic differences among people, and 30 percent was due to environmental differences. The finding received both praise and criticism, but an updated study in 2009 containing new sets of twins found a similar correlation between genetics and IQ. Other scientists estimate that 20 to 60 percent of temperament is determined by genetics. So pick your study that supports your belief.
Where will these ideologies based on race, implemented by policies of business and government, eventually lead?
In a recent broadcast, Tucker Carlson compared MSNBC’s broadcast of continued 1619 Project like ideologies to the genocide in Rwanda during the early 1990s. Tucker singled out Joy Reid and Tiffany Cross, in particular, as two people on the network he said are not only obsessed with skin color but who might drive the United States toward a “race war.”
Tucker discusses Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, a radio station and propaganda tool used to foment ethnic division during the Rwandan Civil War. Tucker suggests that MSNBC is the “Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines” in America of our times. See the Tucker video below and learn more here.
What Tucker is suggesting is the sobering reality of what may transpire if mankind does not put a break in this race-based ideology. Genocide in a race war? Calling people “other” and suggesting division for purity. It has a smell of eugenics, something that has been tried repeatedly throughout history and, more tragically, in the early 1900s.
Being a Sunday Thoughts, is there any Biblical guidance to what is said on this topic? See below a few examples to consider and here for more.
- Malachi 2:10 – “Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?”
- Galatians 3:28 – “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
- Romans 2:11 – “For God shows no partiality.”
Some suggest that God was racist and favored one race or a group of people over another when it talks of “chosen people.” However, the idea of a “chosen people” wasn’t thoughts of a superior race. We are told, in fact, that when a people or an individual were chosen, it was not because of any superior qualities – but precisely because they had no such particular qualities. Consider the following.
Deuteronomy 7:7 – “The Lord did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.”
1 Corinthians 1:27 – “But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.”
Division is the devil’s playground, and it shouldn’t be surprising. The word “devil” comes from the Greek word diabolos, which can be translated as “to divide,” “to be slanderous,” “false accuser,” or more literally, “to throw against and/or be in opposition.” No one should suggest that racism should be ignored. However, the 1619 Project is another human mechanism to sow division amongst mankind for a disastrous end.
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By Tom Williams
