Posted on 05/04/2020 5:34:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The 2020 Pulitzer Prize for commentary was awarded Monday to Nikole Hannah-Jones for an essay in the New York Times that falsely claimed the American Revolution was fought primarily to protect slavery.
The essay, titled “Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true,” launched the Times‘ controversial 1619 project.
The essay incorrectly claimed that the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776 (signing began weeks later, on August 2).
However, the far more egregious error was Hannah-Jones’s claim about the cause for which the Revolution was fought. She wrote: “Conveniently left out of our founding mythology is the fact that one of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery.”
That passage, which appeared in the original text, has since been updated to include the word “some” (emphasis added): “Conveniently left out of our founding mythology is the fact that one of the primary reasons some of the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery.”
Historians were outraged by Hannah-Jones’s false claim. One of them, Northwestern University Professor Leslie Harris, was enthusiastic about the 1619 Project, but furious about the inaccurate claim. Harris recalled in Politico:
On August 19 of last year I listened in stunned silence as Nikole Hannah-Jones, a reporter for the New York Times, repeated an idea that I had vigorously argued against with her fact-checker: that the patriots fought the American Revolution in large part to preserve slavery in North America.
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I vigorously disputed the claim. Although slavery was certainly an issue in the American Revolution, the protection of slavery was not one of the main reasons the...
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And Uncle Joe Stalin was a wonderful man, liberator of all! < /s>
Many “top prizes” around the world have lost all moral standing due to huge levels internal political bias in the decision makers as well as their applauding all sorts of political correctness, no matter how wrong headed it is.
I would say they should be ashamed, but I think shame is not possible with them.
The first rule of being a Commie is Commies stick together.
Wouldn’t use the NYT in my canary cage.
The Pulitzer is like the Nobel: Worthless. It’s a F’ing joke.
The Ministry of Propaganda loves to give awards for the best propaganda.
Despicable.
The Pulitzer Prize was already worthless. Now its even more worthless than before.
Walter Duranty from Liverpool England, a man who’s name has already gone down in infamy.
Walter Duranty from Liverpool England, a man who’s name has already gone down in infamy.
Stalinists lie. Always
Now ask yourself why they would lie and smear the founding of this country while lying and covering up the deaths of millions by a Communist dictator?
I never noticed the sailing ship hanging from the ceiling before!
If I start a chile contest, and I pay the one entrant to enter my chile in his name, and I pay the judge and I publicize the award ... and the only point is to convince everyone that my chile is the one true chile ... that's what these awards are. The people entering and the people judging are the same entity, but neither goes by that entity's name.
My chile may be made from deer poop, but its the best chile.
You have 'writer' and you have 'judge' and you have 'award', but the entity controlling them all is the same entity, and each is just an agent of that same entity.
That's not bias, that's identity.
Utter bull crap. Slavery was not abolished in the British Empire until 1833. No need to fight the Revolution to preserve what would be legal in the Empire for the next 50 years.
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Since Benjamin Franklin is in the portrait it must be a ship “Yonder”...
(Masonic Joke)
One of many reasons for the revolutionwas King George would not let the colonies that wanted to end slavery, end slavery.
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