Posted on 10/07/2020 1:59:44 PM PDT by Zenyatta
The National Association of Scholars (NAS) is calling on the Pulitzer Prize Board to “rescind” the prize awarded to New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones over the summer for her work on the 1619 Project where she asserts, with “no evidence,” that slavery was the reason the American Revolution was fought.
“We call on the Pulitzer Prize Board to rescind the 2020 Prize for Commentary awarded to Nikole Hannah-Jones for her lead essay in ‘The 1619 Project,’” the NAS wrote in a public letter to the board. “That essay was entitled, ‘Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written.’ But it turns out the article itself was false when written, making a large claim that protecting the institution of slavery was a primary motive for the American Revolution, a claim for which there is simply no evidence.”
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If the Pulitzer people didn’t do it for Walter Duranty’s blatant Soviet apologetics & cover-up in the 1930s, I’m not holding my breath this time.
Big surprise that an America-hater would make up lies about the US. /s
Won’t happen. Pulitzer is communist.
I think I just answered my own question.
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