Updated July 25, 2023 at 5:16 p.m. EDT|Published July 25, 2023 at 3:27 p.m. EDT
“They’re probably going to show that some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into doing things later in life,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said in response to a reporter’s question on Friday. (Sean Rayford/AP)
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It starts, as so many debates do these days, with politics.
In 2019, the New York Times unveiled the “1619 Project,” commemorating the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in what is now the United States. The project included essays examining the lingering effects of slavery and — particularly given the heightened attention paid to issues of race in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests that had begun in 2014 triggered predictable criticism.
