The 1619 Project

There is a current of American political and historical thought that makes race conflict the center and even the motor of American history.

At least to an extent, this reputedly is so of the Times' 1619 Project.

All that about race goes a very long way to making all but totally invisible the role of class conflict.

Think of the current fixation of Democratic and "lame stream" media on the disproportionate adverse impact of every ill and harm related to the Coronavirus and to societal and governmental efforts to deal with it.

The disparities noted are invariably racial.

But who does not see that they would still exist if we were a racially homogeneous country?

And how could we fail, in that case, to see that these are disparities of impact by social class and occupation?

That the homeless and the outcast, the hands-on and manual laborers among the working class, the small business people teetering on bankruptcy and poverty, are on the wrong end of this stick, as of so many others?

Including on the wrong end of unchecked and unrecognized criminal violence by the police, for example?

There have been repeated favorable mentions of the project on Morning Joe, and today there was an extended discussion of it.

I came in late to the show and only caught a few of the last moments of that discussion.

Joe S seemed uncomfortable with the topic or some issues related to it.