1619 Slavery

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UNEXPECTEDLY: Seven months later, New York Times’ 1619 Project leader admits she got it wrong. “It cannot be stressed enough that Hannah-Jones’s since-corrected version of historical events was key to the entire project, the premise of which is that America was founded upon, built upon, and primarily formed by slavery.…

“I have been thinking about this and reading obsessively for 25 years about all the inequalities in American life that can be traced back to slavery,” Nikole Hannah-Jones of the New York Times told an audience at Harvard in December. Now the Times admits: Her obsession bested her reason. On…

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Skip to comments. The Real Goals of ‘The 1619 Project’ American Greatness ^ | 14 Mar, 2020 | Arthur Milikh Posted on 03/15/2020 1:32:16 PM PDT by MtnClimber Teaching young people they have no country, that there is neither God nor justice, but only their own anger to right wrongs…

by Greg Mayer The New York Times is backing off just a little from some of the claims they made in the “1619 Project”. Interestingly, as both an online and paper subscriber, I found out about it not from the Times, but from Andrew Sullivan in New York Magazine! I…

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March 14, 2020 | 8:59pm It took The New York Times seven months to admit a problem with its 1619 Project — and even its correction preserves the fundamental lie of its bid to rewrite American history. The 1619 Project, which puts the nation’s true founding in the year African…