With That NYT Writer's Admission About 1619 Project, A Liberal Reporter Wrecks It With One Tweet

“The 1619 Project was never really about history. You all knew this, but now its creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones, admits that this social justice warrior project was never really about history. I mean, just look at the mission statement which says this project is “an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.”

As Jones noted in a Twitter thread, “I’ve always said that the 1619 Project is not a history. It is a work of journalism that explicitly seeks to challenge the national narrative and, therefore, the national memory. The project has always been as much about the present as it is the past.”

“The crazy thing is, the 1619 Project is using history and reporting to make an argument. It never pretended to be a history,” she added”




https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattv...damning-admission-about-1619-project-n2573222




The 1619 project is not legitimate history. It gets nothing right at all except the event that happened in 1619. It is strictly a partisan form of propaganda with an anti America bias.

 

How's it anti-America? I have to ask, given most nationalists like the colour brown.

 

The 1619 project is ridiculous. There was only one English colony in the present day United States borders that year. Jamestown was founded 1607, the King James Version Bible came outside in 1611. Slaves came to Jamestown in 1619. The pilgrims arrived in Plymouth in 1620.

 

Don't hide now. How is it anti-America?

 

It denies everything about the 1776 founding of the country and the issues why we sought independence from the United Kingdom. The 1619 project lies about the motivations of the revolution and the founders and the Declaration of Independence.

 

And that's anti-America? Crikey, really looking at the revolutionaries would spark off more sneer! If you think that's anti-America, then you were never American. There is no understanding of liberty.

 

Yes. Attacking our history, values, traditions, our founders and their motivations is anti American and trying to deny the value of the aspirational goals, ideals, and ideas of the republic the founders gave us. We will not give up our real history nor allow it to be forgotten.

 

When did America become a singular value, tradition or history?

 

Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Marxist lies. Very American.

 

What lies are those then? The origins of capitalism's success?

 

Mercantilism is what was going on when Jamestown and Plymouth were founded. Before and after our actual independence in 1776 capitalism took place in the free states in the north where the industrial revolution occurred.

 

These Cultural Marxists who graduated college with degrees in various Grievance Studies are ridiculously shallow. The intent of the 1619 Project isn't about history. It's about reshaping or "re-imagining" a future with a particular focus on racial discrepancies, rather than a focus on socio-economic class discrepancies. It ignores most of society's problems, is anti-liberal and anti-intellectual. It's gotten more criticism from the left, including criticism from America's Socialists than from anyone else. It's simply way too far out there in Far Left field to have any credibility.