The only Pulitzer the 1619
Project deserved was for fiction
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Editorial
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
5/5/2020 4:34:17 AM
As it was designed to do, The New York Times’ woefully mistaken 1619 Project just won a Pulitzer Prize. Worse, the award for commentary actually went to Nikole Hannah-Jones for her essay introducing the series — that is, to the article that brought the most sustained criticism from historians across the spectrum for its naked errors of fact.
The project’s central conceit is that “out of slavery grew nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional: its economic might, its industrial power, its electoral system.” Hannah-Jones even argued that the main reason American Revolution was fought to preserve slavery — a claim so contrary to the truth
Reply 1 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 5/5/2020 6:43:20 AM (No. 401194)
The NYTwits aren’t interested in history, just propaganda.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
paral04 5/5/2020 7:30:30 AM (No. 401222)
The left is good at rewriting history.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Jebediah 5/5/2020 8:49:57 AM (No. 401312)
And in a nutshell, this is why I don't bother with the New York Times, after being a loyal reader for 30 years. Not remotely to be trusted. As to the Pulitzer committee, give me a brea! It, and the Nobel committee (with the exception of science, etc.) have made such fools of themselves that they are pretty well worthless. The 1619 project is a SCANDAL and the Times backs it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/5/2020 9:53:21 AM (No. 401411)
According to her logic, slavery should be brought back.
How is it that an organization that just won a Pulitzer is closing multiple floors of its building any laying off staff by the dozens? Or is this one of those participation trophies that have become so popular?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Quigley 5/5/2020 10:08:18 AM (No. 401444)
#1, they knew he never would do a damn thing, so if they waited it would be too obvious; after 6 months they could argue “well he might do a damn thing.”
As to the 1619 project, just so long as it lays slavery and all of its institutions and all of its effects on all other institutions at the feet of the DimoKKKrap Party, it has some trace of honesty.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 5/5/2020 10:46:06 AM (No. 401498)
The earliest people who could be considered slaves in the founding of the nation were actually something called bond servants. Back in England, those folks had crushing debt so to pay that off, the King would sell them from debtors prison to the new world colonies as labor. The buyer would buy the man/woman's debt. Then the bond servant would work to pay that off. Then they were freed. Many of those bond servants went on to become very wealthy and successful in their own right in the colonies. Even the Old Testament talks about the concept of bond servants. Wasn't until the Arabs got involved that we had actual slavery.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 5/5/2020 11:58:49 AM (No. 401596)
A hat tip to another LDotter who posted this....I borrowed it.
It's really the Pullet Surprise.
Nothing to be proud of, just another fake award, given by lying leftists to other lying leftists. Means nothing any more.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Venturer 5/5/2020 12:45:45 PM (No. 401650)
I don't know much about the Pulitzer or about her story giving credit to blacks as slaves for making America great.
What I do know is that anyone who doesn't agree with that is a RACIST.
Does that need a sarcasm tag.?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 5/5/2020 1:37:40 PM (No. 401700)
#7, in my third grade history class in Virginia, and in fourth, too, I learned in a book entitled, IIRC, "Virginia History", and we learned about 'indentured servants' who agreed to work for no pay, just room and board for a period of years, so that their passage to The New World would be paid by the man they would work for. I understood it clearly, even in the third or fourth grade, and I knew that these people valued freedom so highly as to sign up to be literal slaves for 5 or 7 years in order to be in a free, new country. I was impressed that it was a hard system, but that it was a workable way for a person to get ahead.
NYT are evil people, and they produce nothing but lies. And they would enslave everyone.
And history isn't taught any more, and what little bit is taught is all lies against the country by leftists who are rewriting our glorious history into a false story.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Mike22 5/5/2020 4:31:19 PM (No. 401844)
The problem is that the schools teach it and the young skulls first of mush believe it. I learned from a student employee that the United States invented slavery. That is what they learned in one of their required college classes. When I asked about Moses and the Israelites I was informed that that was something different somehow it wasn't economic or something????? He had never heard about slavery and the Romans or slavery in Africa.
I learned from another student employee that picnics were racist because the word picnic stood for "Pick a (forbidden word for African-Americans except in a rap song)" where the whites would randomly pick a person of color to lynch and then sit around on the green to watch and party. Both of these students were above average students at California public universities. Your tax dollars at work.
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