Making Uncle Walter proud, isn't she?
Posted on 01/13/2022 6:11:35 AM PST by Kaslin
Nikole Hannah-Jones is the New York Times Magazine reporter who wrote the 1619 Project which is being used in many schools across the country. The 1619 Project postulates that America began in 1619, when the first black slaves were brought here---not 1776, when the founders declared independence.
Hannah-Jones made an historical faux pas in a tweet the other day, in which she said that the U.S. Civil War began in 1865. She later apologized, claiming that her tweet was just “poorly worded.” She said she knows the conflict that ultimately ended slavery in America began in 1861 and ended in 1865.
We all make mistakes, but I can’t help but feel her historical error reveals her lack of a true grasp of our history. We’re all entitled to our own opinions, but we’re not entitled to our own facts.
Hannah-Jones coincidentally doesn’t have a firm grasp on the concept of parental rights, either. She recently told Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press”: "I don't really understand this idea that parents should decide what's being taught. I'm not a professional educator. I don't have a degree in social studies or science….I think we should leave that to the educators."
Gary Bauer, former Under Secretary of Education for President Reagan, reacts to her remarks: “She admits that she's not a professional educator. She's right about that. She's a professional left-wing agitator.”
Bauer adds, “Parents, policymakers and state legislators are right to ban the 1619 Project. It's garbage! Numerous professional historians have thoroughly debunked it. It has no business in our schools. But she thinks banning her radical screed is a sign of oppression.”
Dr. Carol M. Swain is a prominent black scholar who has taught at Vanderbilt Law School and at Princeton. I spoke with her on my radio show about the ongoing battle over American history.
She told me the 1619 Project presents a “revisionist history. [It postulates that] the country is racist to the core. Black people built the country. Racism defines who we are as a nation.” Swain would remind us: “When slavery was introduced into America, we were British colonists.”
When I asked her about the idea of America being “systemically racist” today, she said that the passage of the Civil Rights laws in the 1960s, “really ended systemic racism under the law. And any racism that continues is not because of our national structure.”
It pains her to see the distortion of our history which is propagandizing whole new generations against America. She said, “I care about America. And I care about race relations, and anything [the Left] pushes takes us backwards.”
Swain also notes that this America-is-and-always-was-racist message has a “crippling” effect to underprivileged children because “they give up before they ever get started.” What a tragedy.
Nonetheless, the “historian” peddling this false narrative of American history is feted today by the left. Fox News notes that Hannah-Jones “was named to TIME's list of the ‘100 most influential people’ in 2021.” That is scary since she peddles this false narrative that America began because of slavery.
America became America despite the evil practice of slavery. The American founders created the framework whereby slavery could one day be uprooted. And it was---at the cost of about 700,000 lives.
Civil rights leader Bob Woodson of the Woodson Center created the group 1776 Unites, which aims to address our history in an accurate way. He has recently compiled a book entitled, Red, White, and Black: Rescuing American History from Revisionists and Race Hustlers.
I’ve interviewed Woodson on a couple of occasions. He told me in reference to the 1619 Project, “There are all kinds of historical inaccuracies. We at the Woodson center organized 23-plus scholars and activists to confront this 1619. We called ourselves the 1776 Unites.” Many of these scholars are African-American.
There is a battle over history today. But there are a few historical resources that I would point people to. I have a set of The Annals of America, which is a series of volumes put together by the Encyclopedia Britannica in 1976. The first three volumes in this 20-or so book set focus on the settling and the founding eras of America. It provides the text (and context) of the leading documents in American history. God and the Christian faith can be found all over in many of these original sources.
Meanwhile, Yale University has put such key documents on-line as part of their Avalon Project. This is much more trustworthy---since it’s the original sources---than revisionist claptrap sold to us today by the likes of Nikole Hannah-Jones.
There’s a battle over history in our time. And this battle has big implications as to what our nation was, is, and ever will be.
She’s a ditzy airhead with an out of control imagination. Her ass needs to be thrown in jail for trying to HIJACK AMERICAN HISTORY.
In other news: the Pope is Catholic, bears do poop in the woods, and Epstein didn’t kill himself.
1619 is just the newest creation myth to advance a social agenda. The socialist reinterpretation of history of slavery has become the myth that supports thinking like CRT and black liberation theology. Her losing of inconvenient facts just adds to the bias of her work and the desperation of creating a narrative to support her fantasies.
Just tell these racism-peddlers that over a million WHITE Europeans were sold into sex slavery or crushing slave labor by Africans thanks to the Barbary pirates for centuries and watch their head spin.
Or just mention the word “slave” comes from white Slavs, because they were the primary group enslaved by the greatest slavers in history, the Ottoman Turks.
“”claiming that her tweet was just “poorly worded.””
That poor thing has no business writing columns for anyone if she doesn’t know the difference between “poorly worded” and “just plain wrong”....
Read AMERICAN NATIONS by Colin Woodard is you want to know how the US originated. It is a fascinating account of how major groups of people settled different parts of the county.
The US was not founded upon slavery. It was in fact, incidental to 8 of the 9 major settling groups. Only when plantation owners from Barbados expanded into Charleston, SC was any significant plantation style African Slavery introduced to America.
Making Uncle Walter proud, isn't she?
Also ignored are the ≈ 800,000, mostly White dead during the War Between the States that ended slavery.
Where is our recognition for that?
I’m SHOCKED! SHOCKED I tell you!
Is the Pope Catholic?
The civil war quote is not “poorly worded” it is a complete lack of knowledge of facts. People aren’t stupid & know the difference.
And this too🤔🤔😉
Facts are so racist.
Didn’t the New York lyin Times print a retraction to Nickole Commie-Jones 1619 propaganda?
It’s all about setting the narrative for reparations and permanent affirmative action.
And a never ending revenue stream for “equity consultants”.
If not 1776, the date should be 1607, for the first successful English colony in North America. If 1619 is remembered, it should be for the first representative government in the English colonies. It isn’t clear that the Africans brought to Jamestown in 1619 were treated as slaves for life, rather than as indentured servants forced to work for a term of years before becoming free.
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