Oregon paid $50K for '1619' events where founder criticized colorblindness, said US never met founding ideals

The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) doled out at least $50,000 for events in which 1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah Jones told students, among other things, that America never lived up to its founding ideals.

A student-designated event last week included Jones suggesting people couldn't understand President Trump's election or the Republican Party's activities without her perspective on slavery. During that session, she added that the legacy of slavery led to Derek Chauvin thinking he could get away with killing a Black man, George Floyd, on camera. In a subsequent talk to teachers, she claimed that Black Americans were the nation's "founding fathers" and that they were the "most American of all." Video obtained by Fox News shows Hannah-Jones asserting that history was "really about power," that critics of her project are trying to maintain power, and that Black children can't be treated the same as White students in schools because colorblindness is unrealistic.