‘The “true founding” claim was the core element of the Project’s assertion that all of American history is rooted in and defined by white racial hatred of blacks. According to this narrative, trumpeted by Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones, the American Revolution was a preemptive racial counterrevolution waged by white people in North America to defend slavery against British plans to abolish it. The fact that there is no historical evidence to support this claim did not deter the Times and Hannah-Jones…’

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/09/22/1619-s22.html

This article is bullshit, just like everything else WSWS has written about Project 1619. The NYT stopped referring to 1619 as the start of slavery in the USA because there is significant debate over whether the Africans brought to Jamestown were indentured servants or slaves. For example, Nell Painter, an African-American historian who is retired from Princeton, maintains that they were indentured servants as does Nikhil Pal Singh, an NYU professor who is about as far from WSWS as you can get.

In my view, they were not indentured servants since they only ended up in Jamestown as a result of being seized from a Spanish slave ship. This wasn't a case of Jamestown colonists going over to Africa to con some peasants into signing a 5-year contract for a great job as servants in Jamestown. Right?

As for the rest of the article, it is filled with nonsense like this. Racial hatred? What the fuck? Do these people base their analysis on Karl Marx or Stanley Kramer movies?

These deletions are not mere wording changes. The “true founding” claim was the core element of the Project’s assertion that all of American history is rooted in and defined by white racial hatred of blacks.