1619 Project: Is It Reverse Racism? By: Jerry L. Rhoads Creator of the American Enterprise Party www.americanenterprisepoliticalparty.org

The 1619 project, proffered by Nikole Hannah-Jones, author of the 1619 Pulitzer prize winning commentary, is promoting a change in American history. Will it change America’s culture to reverse racism as promulgated by the black lives matter movement? What are the facts concerning this “what comes first the chicken or the egg” event? Did the first slaves come to America at Jamestown in 1619 or is this an update for the real arrival of slaves in 1500; and the author of the 1619 project conveniently selected that date to precede the arrival of the pilgrims at Plymouth Rock in 1620. Not only is this fallacious, because the slaves didn’t create the Declaration of Independence in 1774 nor the emancipation declaration in 1864. So, why should the 1620 project proffered by this new African-American history become the cultural event named 1619 Thanksgiving and American tradition be the victim of reverse racism? Or is it that black activists are supporting the 1619 project to change the narrative to their race being superior because they were here first. On the contrary, white activists reject this contention and debate that reverse racism was triggered by the protests and riots of 2020 because of the inhumanity of George Floyd being violently chocked to death in Minneapolis. Though change is justified why at the expense of our historical events and leaders. In my opinion, this and other such events since Rodney King in 1991, are justifying the black lives matter protests and riots of 2020 that want our so-called white culture wiped clean and reset the beginning of our country to 1619. Claiming that America’s historical events must be changed for slavery that began in 1500 then according to Ms. Jones in 1619, even though slavery was abolished by a white President in 1864 with the emancipation of slaves, our culture must be changed. Why not change history for the first arrival of the Irish, Polish, Jews, Chinese, Japanese, indigenous Indians, Jamaicans, Russians, etc.? Then they could select 1618 for their arrival to push their narrative prior to white or black history. Or should the majority of voters choose a date or the government, or the collective skin colors or males or females use their arrival as the start of American history. Isn’t this an exercise in justifying reverse racism? Then we Americans could have separate Thanksgivings depending upon our race, creed, religion, gender or citizenship.  Why? To satisfy the injustice, racism, white supremacy, ANTIFA, inequities in our social system due to poverty and squalor in our inner-city neighborhoods? Or do we think that establishing our history on the 1619 theory corrects all of these wrongs? Of course not, if we are supportive of change, we have to correct our political system of inequities caused by the Red and Blue, conservatives and liberals, black and white activists, by preserving our Great American constitution, with an effective third party. The solution is to support humanism not reverse racism as proposed by the 1619 project. Or any ism. First, we must collectively reject the counter culture proposal, as being a racist attack on our constitution. As an alternative, why not vote for a third party that represents all races, religions, creeds, genders based on our 1620 American dream of an enterprising culture and work ethic to patriotically pursue equality in opportunity, education, housing, health care and environmental welfare. To better understand how our economic system of American enterprise brings capitalists and socialists, blacks, whites, browns together in our everyday businesses support a third party based on these principles of governance by the people, of the people, for the people under one God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Save the Great American Enterprise with your vote.