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Pulitzer Prize to New York Times Essay Falsely Claiming American Revolution Was Fought to Preserve Slavery
Breitbart ^ | 4 May 2020 | Joel B. Pollak

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.

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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1 posted on 05/04/2020 5:34:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And Uncle Joe Stalin was a wonderful man, liberator of all! < /s>


2 posted on 05/04/2020 5:36:32 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- “First thing I’d do is repeal those Trump tax cuts.” (May 4th, 2019))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


3 posted on 05/04/2020 5:42:44 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Wuli

The first rule of being a Commie is Commies stick together.


4 posted on 05/04/2020 5:43:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who could have guessed the Communist Revolution would arrive disguised as the common cold?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Wouldn’t use the NYT in my canary cage.


5 posted on 05/04/2020 5:44:15 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Pulitzer is like the Nobel: Worthless. It’s a F’ing joke.


6 posted on 05/04/2020 5:46:46 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Jerusalem is the city of the Great King!!!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Ministry of Propaganda loves to give awards for the best propaganda.


7 posted on 05/04/2020 5:47:56 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Despicable.


8 posted on 05/04/2020 5:48:51 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Pompeo says 'enormous evidence' virus came from Wuhan lab. So, let's see it.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Pulitzer Prize was already worthless. Now its even more worthless than before.


9 posted on 05/04/2020 5:51:46 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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10 posted on 05/04/2020 5:55:20 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: a fool in paradise

Walter Duranty from Liverpool England, a man who’s name has already gone down in infamy.


11 posted on 05/04/2020 5:58:22 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: a fool in paradise

Walter Duranty from Liverpool England, a man who’s name has already gone down in infamy.


12 posted on 05/04/2020 5:59:05 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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?


13 posted on 05/04/2020 5:59:55 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- “First thing I’d do is repeal those Trump tax cuts.” (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Vendome

I never noticed the sailing ship hanging from the ceiling before!


14 posted on 05/04/2020 6:01:38 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
It's not really even bias.

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.

15 posted on 05/04/2020 6:07:04 PM PDT by tinyowl
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Bookmark, another NYT Walter Duranty chapter.
16 posted on 05/04/2020 6:08:13 PM PDT by Chgogal (Wuhan Virus, Chinese Virus, Kung Fu Virus - Wuhan Chinese Kung Fu Virus aka CCP virus.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


17 posted on 05/04/2020 6:35:12 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Nikole Hannah-Jones

18 posted on 05/04/2020 6:41:49 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: BradyLS

Since Benjamin Franklin is in the portrait it must be a ship “Yonder”...

(Masonic Joke)


19 posted on 05/04/2020 6:44:26 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

One of many reasons for the revolutionwas King George would not let the colonies that wanted to end slavery, end slavery.


20 posted on 05/04/2020 6:56:19 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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