Is the 1619 Project racially divisive? Contemporary debates over “Critical Race Theory” in K-12 education claim it, and material like the 1619 Project, is racially divisive. Is the 1619 Project racially divisive? Does it, as its critics claim, teach children to be ashamed of the US? Does it teach white children to be ashamed of their whiteness? If so, how? If not, why?