Confederate "Heritage" Month, April 15: James Oakes on the 1619 Project (2)-White activists against slavery and white racism

One of the themes in The 1619 Project is how Black Americans have borne the struggle for their rights and freedom largely themselves, with little support from white America in particular. “For the most part, black Americans fought back alone,” writes Nikole Hannah-Jones.1

But in an ironic twist of history, white Americans have not only benefitted enormously from slavery. But they were also the major beneficiaries of the expansion of rights for which African-Americans fought.

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