Maria’s Reviews > The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story > Status Update

Page xxxi: “[W]hite Americans desire to be free of a past they do not want to remember, while Black Americans remain bound to a past they can never forget.”

Page xxx: “The story of Black America cannot be disentangled from the story of America, and our attempts to do so have forced us to tell ourselves a tale full of absences, evasions, and lies that fails to satisfactorily explain the society we live in and leaves us unable to become the society we want to be.”