Status Updates From The 1619 Project: A New Ori...

White Americans have a “chronic fear … of what true justice might require.”

“Without the stolen labor of formerly enslaved people, the region’s economy swiftly collapsed, and without the institution of slavery, there was no longer a formal mechanism for maintaining racial hierarchy and preventing “amalgamation” with a group of people considered intrinsically inferior and vile.”

“The Haitian act of independence radically upended the basic premise of white supremacy upon which slavery rested, and asserted Black people’s fundamental human rights to liberty and self-governance.”