The 1619 Project, by Nikole Hannah-Jones, was a much more eye-opening learning experience. Upon first expectation, the word “democracy” is an idea that the United States of America has been the only democracy since the nation’s founding. The struggle of African Americans for equality and justice was the key to the democratization of the country when Nikole Hannah-Jones opens an intriguing discussion on the concealed history of the American society with issues emanating from slavery, denied democracies, and nationalism impacts with the dad thinking if he served his country, his country might finally treat him as an American. That did not happen when the Army did not end up his way, with him being passed over for opportunities that would lead to him getting discharged under…show more content… As African Americans laid the very foundation of the White House and the Capitol, placing with their unfree hands the Statue of Freedom atop the Capital dome. Hannah-Jones puts Black people at the center of American History with their immense contribution to the U.S. with accounts of enslavement and industrialization efforts in promoting the nation’s growth Black Americans continue to be foundational to the idea of American Freedom, we have served generation after generation in an overlooked but vital role as the United States calls itself the nation founder on both an ideal and a lie as “all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” The man who drafted those words did not believe them to be true for hundreds of years. of thousands of black people in their
