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stood on the saw of the united states, as we know it now. that project has now brought forth a book called the origin story. a new origin story is 6019 project. the creator of that book and the project is with us right now. the col hannah jones banking a cove making tie for us on the stream. when you introduce yourself to international audience is what parts of your background you pick out to share with them at? well, i'm a journalist that the new york times, and i've spent my career really writing about racial inequality in the united states and the way that our history here shapes the society that we live in. i have seen you on stage 2, a one paragraph fashion of what often many kids are taught about black americans in u. s. history at a slightly tongue in cheek, but it's also pretty shocking. can you just do that?

very quick recap because audiences backward, he says, thought to laugh, but i think it's a knowing laughter about. yep, that was all we were taught. i'm not sure which one you're talking about because i, i'm on and then never. then it would martin luther king junior and then black lives matter and then that was the end that, that version of history that often with taught at school. yes, i mean i talk about how we get like history month and that typically you get about 4 people in black history month. so you learn about martin king, you learn about harriet tubman, depending on where you might learn about frederick douglas, and then that sums up our entire experience. and that, that, of course, makes us think that black people haven't contributed that much to our society. and so we all end up knowing the same handful of names, but i don't really get a greater understanding of the contributions that black americans have made. i'm

going to show and it's a picture of you on stage with a very special person who introduce you to the death of what black americans had brought to the united states. tell us he, this is and why is important to you. so that is mister ray dial and mister redial was a my high school teacher. he taught african american, it was called the course is called the african american experience. and it was the one semester lack studies course. and in that course, i learned more about the history and contributions of black americans and black people across the globe that i learned in my entire career. and i talk a lot about how they erasure of like people from the american and global story was very powerful. it's and just as much of a message as what we do, learn what we don't learn, sends the same type of message. and so once i took that course,

i became obsessed with learning that history and mr. dye was also the educator who encouraged me to join my high school newspaper. when i complained about the fact that i high school paper didn't write about the black kids. like me, who are all bust into the school as part of effort to try to desegregate the school . so he very pivotal in my life and co hi janice is here for the next 25 minutes. if you'd like to talk to ask a questions about the 1619 project and the new origin of 1619 project, the comment section is whitehead showing act conversation. i'm going to introduce a new voice into ad discussion. nicole and this is jose. he has a question for you on video. when you hear the question, go ahead and i'll say, i believe that the 1619 project does an excellent job of ensuring that we not only have discussion about becoming more inclusive as a country for black americans. but how we can also teach future generations of

harms that we need to still repair for millions and billions of people who have considered themselves americans against all odds. how did your reporting over decades around educational and the quality inform the current practice that you've undertaken with a 1519 project and one on the water? so i know jose actually, and so that was a bit of a, the prize. so i have, in some ways, spent my decades to decades as a journalist, i'm trying to get back to 1619 and the significance of that date. because in writing and reporting on racial inequality, i've always understood that it wasn't. and now to just write about what is happening today, that black people suffer disparities across nearly everything that you can measure,

that we had to show why and how we got here. and that there were policy decisions that there were laws that there were customs that there were economic policies that led us to be where we are. and so i've always tried to infuse my work with historical understanding because most americans, frankly, i get almost no history are sociology about the construction of race and the way that race and racial quality has been intentionally created. so. so much of my work as a journalist, but also just my work as kind of a lay historian. my undergraduate degrees are in history and african american studies. i read on this history obsessively. all the books of a house are about black american history, really. and so all of bad really informed my idea to pitch the 6900 project, which they consider the project. is that all across american life, in ways that are surprising, or we can see the legacy of slavery,

even though that legacy often operates invisibly. nicola, i'm picking out some of the pictures from the new origin story because that's somewhat different from the original 1619 wanted to put it goes on and on and on. but this iteration, the photos really stand out. what will you trying to do? you and your copyright us? yes. so the idea to put these archive a photo id really came from the editor, one of the co editors on the project, caitlin roper, when very well with the initial project. when i pitched it a small group of us from the new york times magazine took a field trip to the national museum of african american history and culture. and caitlin was really struck by all of the images there. i'm just regular black people, black people who were not famous. i just living their lives and she realized she'd never really seen many of these images and popular culture and that humanity,

that, that we saw in those photos really stuck with her. so when we decided to turn this into a book, she really believed that one of the things we should do was include these archival photos. and that's how they came to really start every essay in the book. and i found a really wonderful photo curator on instagram. actually, i kimberly in these henderson. and she runs a site where she goes through it and post pictures of regular black americans going all the way back to the beginning of photography. and so we collaborated with her, and i think it is such a beautiful way to force the reader before every essay. because these essays are difficult. they talk a lot about, you know, the brutality, the barbarism that black americans had to face. but before you enter every essay you have to pause and just look at a regular black person in his or her full humanity. and realize that everything

you're about to read happened to real people, with hopes and dreams and hurts and pains. if like any one allison, it's actually one of my favorite parts of the book. the idea of having a new origin story for the united states of america. some people were shaken by this in good ways, and also in bad ways. let me share with you on a website that that focuses on education. and they've been tracking the efforts in 28 states to restrict educational racism bias and the contributions of specific racial ethnic groups to u. s. history related topics. which becomes doubly shocking when you realize that the united states, as we know it, is a nation of immigrants, then they tracked 15 states that are trying to expand educational racism, bias in the contributions of specific racial or ethnic groups to u. s. history or related topics. there is the debate. there is the debate, nicole, that you and your collaborators started in conversation 2 years ago and continuing

conversation. now, what happened? what was the impact of the project? well, the impact of the project has in ways good and bad exceeded everything that we could have possibly imagined. i think every journalist hopes that you will produce journalism that has a larger of societal impact and that gets people to really think and what this project was intentionally trying to do was unsettle our mythology about what the america is. what america was founded upon, you know, i don't have to tell your international audience that many americans believe in this idea of exceptionalism, that we are an exceptional nation, that we are exceptionally free, and that we are the greatest experiment in democracy that the world has ever faith, but the only way that you can believe that is you have to erase large swath of our

history. you have to erase and genocide in india, removal. and sadler colonialism and the theft of land you have to we raise. busy 250 years of chattel slavery. and so we have done that in this country. and when you take a piece of popular history in the paper of record, one of the most powerful media institutions in the world, and you say, actually, 1776. the year of the that we marked the founding of the united states doesn't actually tell you that much about america. but the year 1619, where we engage in african slavery, where we kind of see our founding tensions are founding, divides. begin that, that tells you a lot more about this country. and when you say men that we are a nation of immigrants. well, yes and no. we have been a multi racial place since 1619 when africans joined indigenous people who were already here who are not immigrants,

and english immigrants who chose to come here. and then of course, africans who were forced migrants to the united states. and we really are. i multi racial nation, made up of many people who chose to be here, but also significant numbers of people who did not. as a good point, i even think the framing of 69 team doesn't take into account the people who were already in the united states before all the people came to the united states in gibson is having a conversation with you on the chief. he wants to know, how do you rationalize nicole? the fact that your book is being banned from being taught in schools. i don't rationalize it. i think it's absurd. i think it's astounding that you would have all across a country who believes or at least exports to the world. this idea that we are, we believe in free speech, that we are an open society that we are a tolerate society, that you would have legislatures banning books,

a banning idea using the state to criminal i, the teaching of ideas that they don't like. this is a work of new york times. journalism and legislators are banned the teaching of this project by name in georgia in florida. i'm in texas and other states are also attempting to do that. so it's antithetical to the idea that americans want to have of themselves. and the idea that americans want to explore to the world. all we have to do is ask ourselves if this were happening in cuba, or if this were happening in china, how would americans talk about the banning of books, the burning of books and the criminalizing of the teaching of ideas? we know how we would respond to that. so i think it is very disturbing and it reflects on i think, the very precarious position that american democracy sits in right now. a comment from spanish hill is on you change watching right now. it's not even about black

history. it's about real history unbiased on census history. give people credit where it's gene teaching in schools and universities be transparent. that's all in the call. one of the things that you and your collaborators have done is actually to listen to the criticism and listen to some of the feedback that you got from the initial project. and you've used that. i took me forward and developed other teaching tools to put the book together. tell us how that criticism helped you. that wasn't just super conservative criticism, something you thought, okay, we can use that. that's helpful. sure. i mean, this was a massive undertaking and i don't know of a single scholar or a single journalist that produces a major work and thinks that they have done everything in that work perfectly. i mean, in the field of historiography, the bait happens, people will publish and then other scholars will critique what was published in

those publications be get amended, and that's what we did with the new york times of the 1619 project where the critique was offered in good faith, we certainly welcomed it and we listened to it and we did more research. we clarified, we expanded our arguments, we added more resources. and anyone who may have had some doubts about the project . i think if you read it with an open mind and the more than 1000 and notes where we cite our sources out, i think you'll see that the rigor of the scholarship we none of us should think that we have found all the answers and we have to be able to engage in a conversation because there's history, as we kind of commonly understand it, which is something happened on this day and these people did it. and this is the result. but history is the field is really about interpreting what happened on what

day and why, and that is up for debate. you can look at something, for instance, whether the u. s. constitution was pro slavery, or anti slavery. and different scholars will site the same information and come down on different sides. and that is just what the field of historiography is. so when some historians challenge certain interpretations, those who didn't like the project said, well, that means that they got these things wrong. but what it really meant is those scholars have a different perspective on this history, and they wouldn't make the same argument that we made. but that doesn't mean that it's wrong. history is always contested. and it's almost always contested by those in power. because those in power wish to shape our collective understanding of the world in which we live. i was getting ready for our conversation today, and i noticed that you were trending on twitter, which is something that you often do. i think what it,

what isn't that was the account on this time? what does, how upset people about what nicole has been saying? and, and it was just this, it's really simple. 1619 project. often nicole had a chat and says hiatus should read it 1st one i one i mean like i said, there was a t m, the headline i, i didn't say the word haters, but when i did say, is so many of the people who have very strong feelings about the 1690 project. i've never actually read it what they read or criticism of the project, what they have read and have been an effort sometimes to just credit the project. and i just say you may still hate the project or you may still disagree with the project, but i don't understand how anyone can feel strongly about something that they haven't engaged in. and i think so many people have had their perceptions shaped by bad faith actors and will be very surprised by what they actually find in the project. i'm going to bring in a historian, her name is dr. catherine stout,

and she has a question for you. nicole jimenez, the critical race theory debate is really the latest more panic in the history of us education. i've seen other more panics before, from the teaching of evolution to school integration, and now critical race theory looked so much at stake as we emerged from this pandemic. how do we switch from this moment? more panic to a moment of education, reform that centers equity and academic gains. i wish i had the answer to that. i don't, i don't think we know because the anti critical race theory, that was a campaign with a propaganda campaign. and it was a very successful propaganda campaign, one that many of my colleagues in the mainstream media also help legitimize. so we

know that anti critical race theory was in response to efforts to really expand our curriculum to be more inclusive, to focus more on racial inequality, to focus more on equity. was a response to last year's global protest against racism. and the 400 year history of black in quality. so i think the thing that we have to realize is the opposition is very, very organized. these are people who are going to school boards and protesting and overturning school board elections. and these are people who have been very savvy with getting the media to cover their perspective, but you have not seen those who believe in a more accurate teaching of history. those who want a more inclusive teaching of history. you haven't seen them having that same level of organization, and i think that's really troublesome. we can't sit idly back and that one group of people who are not acting in good faith drive the narrative. what got left out of

almost all of these stories is white students are the minority in americans pub in america's public schools. yet they were the focus of all of these stories, determining how we can teach about the history of this country. so we have to be as organized in fighting back for a tour, rendering of history a more inclusive rendering of history than those who really want to create anti history laws. in order to maintain this nationalistic and propagandistic view of america, i'm going to ask you to have a look at my laptop and a reminder. and i want to share this with our audience of a note that was sent back stated to you at the end of november. it is get a little bit closer to the nick ho into the note. nicole with her a love heart. okay. this little one loves you. let's read the,

the letter dinner co. you are the best journalist in history. i can't wait to see the book that you wrote for kids. i appreciate what you have done. i wish i could be there and meet you in person. thank you for the 1619 project. so the 69 project ball on the water is a book that you've aimed a youngsters tell us a little bit about that. and then read us a little section. so we got a little taste of what that's like, how do you aim this incredible history that includes young people at the same time . so or so 6 to 19 project bought on the water is a picture book that i co wrote with children's book author renee watson and is illustrated by nicholas smith. and it really is an origin story for black american children who descend from american slavery. it starts with i experienced that i had

of the child and that many children have where a teacher gives them a simon and, and asked you to write an essay about your native land and or your ancestral land and to draw the flag of your ancestry. ancestral country, but of course, because of slavery and the middle path, it lack americans connection to any specific country or any specific people in the continent of africa has been raised in that i can be a very demeaning experience for a child. and once we publish the 6900 project, we were asked and i was as continuously my parents. are you going to do something for children so that we don't have to wait until they are adults to give them some of the history. so that is what we do. the project begins in angola, modern, which i'm the 1st enslaved africans were sold into virginia. and 1619 came from what is now modern day angola. we spend about a 3rd of the book in angola because we thought it was really important. matt,

to begin our story with slavery, to show african peoples had culture and knowledge and learning and joy and love. and dan said, family call we were laid out here. we read us a little back out of her if. sure. so i, i say say i, we start with the uplifting part of angola, but i'm going to read you a one of the dark parts, which is about when these people were ripped away from their land and it's called stolen. and the white people took them anyway, kidnapped them, baptized them in the name of their god. damn them with new names. ours is no immigration story. they did not get to pack bag stuffed with chairs. things with the dow grand mama had woven from tall grass, with the baby blanket handed down from generation to generation all the way back. so far back that it carried the scent of the ancestors. they could not hug their

fathers and mothers daughters and sons, hearts thumping and rhythm clinging to that final sweetness before the parting. no promises whispered from mouth to ear of seeing each other soon, ours is no immigration story. and then i don't know if your audience can see but situations are they please very beautiful. we've been showing some of them. what i in love at that this, this book is that you wrote it with rene. nicholas smith did the illustrations, which a gorgeous and then at the front it is dedicated to all of your children and reading the children of black americans who will get that book and like the little girl that you were back in the day, i think they will have that full of them, they will be out of tell their own origin story. nicole, hannah jones,

it is always a pleasure having you here on the stream. so one little thing i want to show our audience, and i'm just gonna shake here. if you're not following the co, hannah jones on twitter, you need to, it is exciting. it is a roller coaster, and it's nicole and again says herself i am built for this. she can handle anybody . and she's always happy to chat to you the co how to jones. thank you for being our guest on the street today. appreciate you. i will see you next time everybody take ah to be on the comfort zone. we're assumptions or challenge travel to the ends of the earth, and further experience the unimaginable of the people who live it is probably the most extreme situation i've been involved in. how quickly things

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