The irony of the New York Times’ 1619 Project...

[seer]

Oh, and it turns out this racist editor had a major hand in the 1619 Project:

Now that is a shock!

[Sparko]

She can't be racist. She is hating on white people.

[One Bad Pig]

Update, courtesy of Rich Lowry:



See also commentary by Brian Mark Weber

[Mountain Man]

Historians continue to call out the 1619 project for its factual errors and omissions.

The latest salvo on the other side comes from Princeton historian Sean Wilentz, writing in The Atlantic. Wilentz makes mincemeat of The 1619 Project lead Nikole Hannah-Jones' contention that protecting slavery was a main motive of the American Revolution, of her statement that Abraham Lincoln "opposed black equality" and of her avowal that blacks fought "alone" for equal rights after the Civil War.

Wilentz was also a co-signer of a letter to The Times lamenting factual errors in its articles, along with Brown University's Gordon Wood, Princeton's James McPherson and City University of New York's James Oakes. Wood is a premier historian of the American Revolution. "I don't know of any colonist who said that they wanted independence in order to preserve their slaves," he wrote in a separate letter to The Times' editor-in-chief, as reported by the World Socialist Web Site, which has taken an interest in the controversy. "No colonist expressed alarm that the mother country was out to abolish slavery in 1776."
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McPherson, the leading scholar of the Civil War, said he was "disturbed by what seemed like a very unbalanced, one-sided account, which lacked context and perspective on the complexity of slavery." Oakes, a leading historian of Reconstruction, calls the idea that "slavery or racism is built into the DNA of America" one of several "really dangerous tropes." He adds: "They're not only ahistorical, they're actually anti-historical. The function of those tropes is to deny change over time."

Which helps explain why The 1619 Project makes short shrift of black leaders and their white allies who led successful fights to make enormous change. "One of the many odd things about the New York Times's '1619 Project,' on slavery," notes Steven Hayward, author of the two-volume "The Age of Reagan," "is that Martin Luther King Jr is barely mentioned (ditto Frederick Douglass)." Nor is there mention of A. Philip Randolph, organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, or the 1920s Harlem Renaissance.

Wilentz, McPherson and Oakes aren't conservative polemicists; Wilentz is a strong partisan Democrat and supporter of the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Their point is that The 1619 Project is inaccurate in many important respects -- on certain facts and, even more so, in the overall lesson it seeks to teach...

https://townhall.com/columnists/mich...wrong-n2560022

[Mountain Man]

Writer of the 1619 Project makes some rather interesting admissions on Twitter:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattve...oject-n2573222

So she pretty much straight-up admits that it's propaganda. As in actual propaganda and not in the looser "I disagree with it, so it's propaganda" sense.

[seer]

Writer of the 1619 Project makes some rather interesting admissions on Twitter:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattve...oject-n2573222

So she pretty much straight-up admits that it's propaganda. As in actual propaganda and not in the looser "I disagree with it, so it's propaganda" sense.

So she is admitting that it is largely bull crap.

[rogue06]

Writer of the 1619 Project makes some rather interesting admissions on Twitter:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattve...oject-n2573222

So she pretty much straight-up admits that it's propaganda. As in actual propaganda and not in the looser "I disagree with it, so it's propaganda" sense.

More of that "truth" over facts.

[Sparko]

A Hulu docuseries based on the The New York Times' 1619 Project is on the way

Hulu is making a documentary series based on The 1619 Project, a New York Times series that explored the history of slavery in the United States and its enduring impact on American life. Roger Ross Williams, who was the first African American director to win an Oscar, will produce the docuseries and direct the first episode. Peabody Award-winning journalist and producer Shoshana Guy will act as showrunner.

"The 1619 Project is an essential reframing of American history,” Williams said in a statement. “Our most cherished ideals and achievements cannot be understood without acknowledging both systemic racism and the contributions of Black Americans. And this isn’t just about the past — Black people are still fighting against both the legacy of this racism and its current incarnation."

The Times teamed up with Lionsgate and Oprah Winfrey last year to create films, TV shows and other ventures based on The 1619 Project. It's not yet clear when Hulu's docuseries will premiere.
https://www.engadget.com/hulu-the-16...192736475.html

"The 1619 Project is an essential reframing rewriting of American history,”

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