The ‘1619 Project’ is a Fraud
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ASON: The 1619 Project used by schools… Isn’t it amazing the cooperation they do? So you’ve got the CDC coordinating with the teachers union. You have the New York Times’ 1619 coordinating with K through 12. You have the media coordinating with Big Tech. And you have these tax-exempt groups coordinating with the Democrat Party. That is what I’m talking about when I say institutional liberalism or when I say this gaslighting — collective gaslighting — that’s going on.
Nothing could be a greater lie than the idea that our constitution is fundamentally racist or our constitution is fundamentally anti-equality. Nothing could be a greater lie than that. We are the only country on the face of the earth that has ever looked at its wrongs and righted them, and it started right at the beginning, contrary to Howard Zinn and the 1619 Project. (impression) “The Constitution is a white man’s racist document!” Really?
Well, the Constitution banned the importation of any further slaves in 1808. The Northwest Ordinance passed the year the Constitution was ratified banned slavery. The three-fifths clause… You heard this a thousand times. Oh, three-fifths clause didn’t count slaves as whole persons. No, but 8% of the African-American population was free, and they were counted as whole people. Why is that?
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New York Times Magazine staffer Nikole Hannah-Jones accused me once of rank jealousy. She said my criticism for her flawed 1619 Project stems from the fact that, unlike her, I do not “have good ideas and the talent to execute them.”
We apparently have different understandings of what constitutes a “good idea” and “talent.”
New York Times Magazine editors have quietly removed controversial language from the online version of Hannah-Jones’s 1619 Project, a package of essays that argue chattel slavery defines America’s founding. Hannah-Jones herself also asserts now that the project’s core thesis is not what she and everyone else involved originally said it was.
It “does not argue that 1619 is our true founding,” she said on Friday. She declared elsewhere in July that it “doesn’t argue, for obvious reasons, that 1619 is our true founding.”
This is a brazen lie.
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More From The Federalist (7/27/20):
Nearly a year since anti-American 1619 Project was unveiled, far too many of its egregious historical falsehoods have been blindly accepted by the media.
More From The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (5/8/20):
The awarding of a Pulitzer Prize for commentary to the New York Times magazine’s Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of “The 1619 Project” will serve as an additional selling point as the Times and the Pulitzer Center (unaffiliated with the prize) seek to market their 1619 Project Curriculum. It’s hard not to see the prize as an attempt to deflect the criticisms the paper has taken from historians across the country.
More From The American Thinker (8/31/19):
First, it’s hard to take its claims seriously when its creators and contributors are privileged blacks holding exalted positions in journalism, the media, and academia owned and controlled largely by whites. The Project’s creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones, is a black reporter employed by the white-owned New York Times.
Second, Hannah-Jones had dedicated her career to writing about racial inequality. She had previously stated that whites are as racist today as our forefathers, but that we’ve adapted over time to cover our racism with a “sheen of deniability,”
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