While it is difficult to understand how people can so readily identify with a group, how they can believe their very identity is collective rather than individual it may be even more difficult to understand why the mission of those groups is self destruction. How can you hate yourself (and your “group”) to such an extent that you promote the hatred of the “group” that would destroy you? “Whiteness cannot exist without blackness, so until white people are willing to give up whiteness, you will never see an end, really, to racism that is built on antiblackness, and I don’t have hope for that. It is really the oldest American value, and it continues to be so,” Nikole Hannah-Jones opined. Nikole Hannah-Jones is the architect of the New York Times’ 1619 Project. The racial revisionism of the 1619 Project envisions all of American history as a...