More on the NY Times' "1619 Project"

The NY Times boasts that it's America's "newpaper of record."

For those of you who don't read the Times, this effectively means that if the Times doesn't report something, the rest of the media world believes it didn't happen.  And conversely, if the Times makes any claim--no matter how absurd--virtually every media outlet in America treats the claim as true.

Examples are too numerous to list, but here's a recent one:  The Times calls it the "1619 Project," as the main point of the series is their claim that America was actually founded in 1619.

Now, those of you who were raised in the U.S. probably recall the un-Woke history stating that the United States of America came into existence in 1776, with the signing of the Declaration of Independence from Britain.  The Times claims that nonsense, and that the country was founded 157 years earlier.

You may well wonder how they can make that claim.  It's because main author Nikole Hannah-Jones claims the United States was really founded when...the first black slaves arrived in the colonies.

Seriously, that's the main thrust of the project.  And it's already become a mandatory learning objective for tens of thousands of helpless elementary-school students in Dem-ruled states.

Cool, eh?  The Times asserts something, all the media elites salute and voila!  History is re-written.

You probably think this is crazy-talk, that no one with a lick of sense would make such a goofy claim.  Well think again, cuz last Monday spearhead writer Nikole Hannah-Jones won a Pulitzer prize for a category cleverly called "commentary."  (The Pulitzer doesn't have a category for "revisionist history," apparently.)

In its own words, the 1619 Project was designed “to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story.”

With the full approval of Times executive editor Dean Baquet, Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote the following propaganda:

“Out of slavery – and the anti-black racism it required – grew nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional: its economic might, its industrial power, its electoral system, diet and popular music, the inequities of its public health and education, its astonishing penchant for violence, its income inequality.”

Really?  "Nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional" comes from slavery?  "Its economic might"?   "Industrial power"?  Don't think so, sparky.  And then including "diet and popular music" as part of our exceptionalism?  Again, crazy claims--unless you're uneducate, in which case those claims are, like, totally believable.

Hannah-Jones goes a lot further, claim that "maintaining slavery" was a “primary motivation” for our eventual declaration of independence from England.

Seriously, that's what Hannah-Jones claimed.  With the wholehearted backing of Dean Baquet.

Unfortunately for the Times, that was immediately, and definitively, debunked by historians of both the left and the right.  Faced with the actual facts, the New York Times later issued a correction, changing the statement from "for the colonists, maintaining slavery was a primary motivation" to...wait for it...“for some of the colonists it was a primary motivation.”

Really, communist racist?  How many of the colonists?  Two?  Half of one percent?

Hannah-Jones simply made a claim with no supporting evidence.  The claim confirmed her belief, and that's all she needed.  But the fact is, in early drafts of the Declaration itself, Thomas Jefferson cited the evils of slavery imposed by England’s kings as one of the main reasons for declaring our independence.

This wasn’t a simple “mistake.” One of the fact-checkers of the piece, Northwestern University historian Leslie Harris, brought the error to the Times’ attention before the Project launched.

As you already guessed, she was ignored.

“On Aug. 19 of last year I listened in stunned silence as Nikole Hannah-Jones, a reporter for the New York Times, repeated an idea that I had vigorously argued against,” Harris wrote in a piece for Politico.

Her objection? “Far from being fought to preserve slavery, the Revolutionary War became a primary disrupter of slavery in the North American colonies,” Harris, who is herself African-American, wrote.  Big difference.

The 1619 Project is an effort to rewrite history to fit the malicious and utterly false belief by so-called progressives that America was founded by racists, steeped in hatred and capitalist oppression.

To Democrat leaders and leftists, who now utterly control the mainstream U.S. media, America isn’t the land of the free but a xenophobic, racist and hyper-capitalist playground for white Americans – and is hell for everyone else.

As such, the 1619 Project isn’t really an education project at all. Indeed, it has one main goal: to further split Americans along race, class, gender and other lines, part of the left media’s divide-and-conquer strategy.  Make as many Americans as possible believe America is racist and that they’re victims, and violence and economic ruin are certain.

Children who have this biased bilge shoved down their throats in school will never learn the true history of America and its foundations in Enlightenment ideals and natural law. Instead, they’ll be turned into self-loathing, America-despising tools of the progressive left, cursing the very things that have made, and continue to make, America great.

Now ask yourself:  How did Hannah-Jones and the Times manage to win a Pulitzer for this utter crap?

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Adapted from https://issuesinsights.com/2020/05/06/tell-a-lie-win-a-pulitzer/