I'm guessing 'A People's History of the United States' by Howard Zinn ain't high on your reading list either.
So, an African American writing about their personal and historic experience of bigotry in the US is silly? And, no surprise, many lines in the provided OPINION article are cherry picked from the original NYT Mag essay with no context. If you actually care to read it and gain insight to a world other than you own, here is the original authored piece opposed to the regurgitated marketing-Con lines provided herein:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...democracy.html
Also, I know this is a difficult leap for you to make, but the NYT Magazine article is an OPINION piece using known historical context and documentation to support that opinion.
Finally, no link was provided to verify any of the 3,500 classrooms claimed to be teaching US history using the NYT 1619 Project 'curriculum.' Wanna provide some evidence to back up your own opinion or the provided OPINION article's main premise; it must be a verifiable fact eh? ;)