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Nikole Hannah-Jones, the 1619 Project's principal author, chose a private school for her daughter rather than the public system she demands for every other household. Her published writings and public statements have long condemned traditional schooling as irredeemably tainted by the nation's founding sins, yet the same woman secured an education outside that system for the child under her roof.
The motive is not difficult to discern. The 1619 narrative functions as a totalizing account that recasts every American institution as a machine of perpetual racial dispossession. Once adopted, it leaves no room for ordinary parental calculation; loyalty to the narrative must override loyalty to one's own. The child becomes another offering on the altar of solidarity.
This pattern belongs to a longer war against the household. The Puritans who settled New England understood the family as the first school of the covenant, charged with transmitting both letters and the fear of the Lord. They rejected every scheme that would transfer that charge to distant magistrates or ideological cadres. The 1619 revision revives the opposite claim: the household exists to ratify the state's narrative, not the reverse.
Scripture places the duty of instruction squarely upon fathers. Ephesians 6:4 binds the head of the house to nurture children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord, not in the latest racial catechism. When a mother publicly elevates an ideological program above that duty, she does not merely contradict herself; she violates the order God established for the transmission of truth across generations.
The consequence follows with mechanical certainty. Children raised under such divided loyalty learn early that parental words serve the movement rather than the child. Trust erodes. The household, already thinned by modern atomization, loses its capacity to form independent souls. The City of Man gains another generation trained to despise its own inheritance.
Western Christendom once answered this threat by recovering the authority of the household under the Word. The Reformation restored the family as the primary site of catechesis and literacy precisely because it refused to surrender education to princes or priests acting as ideological agents. That recovery remains the only workable precedent for those who will not repeat the same surrender today.
Parents who still confess the creeds therefore face a plain requirement. They must withdraw their children from every institution that serves the 1619 myth or its successors and build or join schools ordered to the household, the church, and the historic faith. No further public statement from the revisionist class alters the duty; only the consistent defense of one's own does.
