I guess nobody cares about reality anymore but the whole point of @nhannahjones’ essay was an explication of how she found her way to a patriotic understanding of American history. https://twitter.com/markknoller/status/1306674413752979459

Critics raised some fair points about a few specific factual claims she made but this is the point of the essay — it’s an argument for a patriotic Black history that casts African-Americans as the heroes of the story of freedom & democracy.

The opening sentence is “my dad always flew an American flag in our front yard” and the argument was that he had as much claim — if not more — to that flag as any white person.

Read it; I promise you this is what it’s about.

On my virtual book tour I have ended up getting more questions than I initially anticipated about patriotism, the left, and the 1619 Project so I’ve gotten very familiar with how off the rails the conservative discourse on this has become.