This morning Newt Gingrich tweeted nonsense and got a perfect response. Ignore Gingrich. @EdgeofSports has it covered. pic.twitter.com/PD1JCqylDw — Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) August 18, 2019 Here's the background: this weekend The New York Times published "The 1619 Project," which by all accounts (outside the White Nationalism bubble that is today's Republican Party) adds tremendously to the American History narrative by chronicling the long history of slavery and its contradiction to the American ideals of freedom and justice.