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'Nevermind.' The New York Times goes Emily Litella on its garbage '1619' project
American Thinker ^ | 09/24/2020 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 09/24/2020 7:15:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind



With its case for America being founded entirely on the idea of perpetrating slavery meeting pushback and as factual history falling apart, the New York Times is  now very, very quietly trying weasel out of the worst claims of its "1619" project, hoping no one is going to notice.

According to the Washington Examiner's Becket Adams:

New York Times Magazine editors have quietly removed controversial language from the online version of Hannah-Jones’s 1619 Project, a package of essays that argue chattel slavery defines America’s founding. Hannah-Jones herself also asserts now that the project’s core thesis is not what she and everyone else involved originally said it was.

It “does not argue that 1619 is our true founding," she said on Friday. She declared elsewhere in July that it “doesn’t argue, for obvious reasons, that 1619 is our true founding.”

This is a brazen lie. When the 1619 Project debuted both online and in print in August 2019, the online version’s text stated originally [emphasis added]:

The 1619 project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.

That same online passage, which was the source of so much controversy among historians on both sides of the aisle, now reads:


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Michigan; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 1619; 1619project; annarbor; godsgravesglyphs; michigan; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes

1 posted on 09/24/2020 7:15:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Here is how the Online version now reads:

The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.

2 posted on 09/24/2020 7:16:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica has slavery in America. So it’s older than 400 years.
They pick “400 years” because they want to make Europeans look bad.
If they play that game, they make British and Spanish Empires look bad.
It is true that the United States of America had slavery — but only for about 75 years and we ended it 150 years ago.

Stop beating me with this stick.


3 posted on 09/24/2020 7:23:17 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: SeekAndFind
Here's the stellar summary from Instapundit's Sarah Hoyt:

 

She's right - there should be a cost for shoving those kinds of lies at America's little kids, making them hate their own country. As Eric Hoffer once noted "Is there any greater freedom than to be wrong?' Next time these clowns claim to be oppressed, this garbage needs to be thrown at them. And the entire project needs to be pulped. One hopes that the Times with its backtracking eventually gets the intestinal fortitude to do it, but no one should hold their breath. They'd just as soon lie to you about their lies at this point. 

Fortunately, President Trump pushed back on this juggernaut, and since then, toppled the whole house of cards, driving even the Times to want to pretend it never happened. They made no notations of changes in their content on this garbage, they just wanted to gaslight us that none of their earlier claims had ever happened.

Which is why they ought to be held accountable.

4 posted on 09/24/2020 7:25:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Can’t help but wonder how many Americans owned slaves. And why were there so many indentured servants if slavery was so abundant? We’ve all read about the people who worked for free for usually 7 years and then were given their freedom. A lot of English, Scots and Irish came over that way.


5 posted on 09/24/2020 7:26:13 AM PDT by McGavin999 (Kamala tosses out race cards as fast as a Las Vegas Blackjack dealer)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Here's the stellar summary from Instapundit's Sarah Hoyt:

 

She's right - there should be a cost for shoving those kinds of lies at America's little kids, making them hate their own country. As Eric Hoffer once noted "Is there any greater freedom than to be wrong?' Next time these clowns claim to be oppressed, this garbage needs to be thrown at them. And the entire project needs to be pulped. One hopes that the Times with its backtracking eventually gets the intestinal fortitude to do it, but no one should hold their breath. They'd just as soon lie to you about their lies at this point. 

Fortunately, President Trump pushed back on this juggernaut, and since then, toppled the whole house of cards, driving even the Times to want to pretend it never happened. They made no notations of changes in their content on this garbage, they just wanted to gaslight us that none of their earlier claims had ever happened.

Which is why they ought to be held accountable.


6 posted on 09/24/2020 7:26:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Not just that...


7 posted on 09/24/2020 7:27:02 AM PDT by null and void (Democrats donate to bail money. Republicans donate to scholarships. ~ throwthebumsout)
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To: McGavin999

“Can’t help but wonder how many Americans owned slaves.”

Slaves were capital, so just like any other kind of capital, you can be sure that 5% of the people controlled 95% of them.


8 posted on 09/24/2020 7:49:46 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: McGavin999

Read White Cargo for a story of Celtic slaves in the British Caribbean. Also black chattel slavery was used to replace indenture as it was permanent and Africans were less likely to suffer the effects of Southern summers and malaria as would indentures. Slavery was not common in the middle and New England colonies but not for moral reasons. Shorter growing seasons and the lack of true cash crops made it unprofitable for farmers in those areas to provide for large numbers of year round live in slaves.


9 posted on 09/24/2020 7:54:47 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: McGavin999

“Can’t help but wonder how many Americans owned slaves.”

I read once that it was never more than 3% of the population who owned slaves. Basically, it was top 1% thing, for the most part.

As you point out, bonded labor contracts were common, and generally significantly cheaper than buying a black African slave.


10 posted on 09/24/2020 7:58:07 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: SeekAndFind

Scurrying for cover when the lights come on.


11 posted on 09/24/2020 8:02:45 AM PDT by BeauBo
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12 posted on 09/24/2020 9:10:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Professors and historians call for withdrawal of ‘1619 Project ...www.youtube.com ›

The letter released Tuesday says the Project erased false claims in an attempt to deceive the public.

https://youtu.be/gqKx4kIgRpQ


13 posted on 10/07/2020 3:11:18 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (The line that separated Satire, Democrats and Stupidity has vanished. (thanks to jonascord)!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I had ancestors from Jamestown during this time period, both Blacks and whites. I started posting my own history line and documenting:

The Lies of the New York Times’ 1619 Project, which continue to be spread by liberals.

A few months ago, I started posting this little historical exercise about Slavery in pre America:

Slavery was, not yet a reality, even in any British Royal American Colonies by 1619.

1619: The year, the first Endentured Africans, not slaves, were brought to Jamestown, is drilled into students’ memories, but overemphasizing this date distorts history!

1619: First Africans:

In August 1619 “20/odd Negroes” arrived on the Dutch Man-of-War ship at Jamestown colony. This is the earliest record of Black people in colonial America.[38] These colonists were freemen and indentured servants.[39][40][41][42] At this time the slave trade between Africa and the English colonies had not yet been established.

Records from 1623 and 1624 listed the African inhabitants of the colony as indentured servants, not slaves.

In the case of William Tucker, the first Black person born in the colonies, freedom was his birthright.[43] He was son of “Antony and Isabell”, a married couple from Angola who worked as indentured servants for Captain William Tucker whom he was named after.

Yet, court records show that at least one African had been declared a slave by 1640; John Punch. He was an indentured servant who ran away along with two White indentured servants and he was sentenced by the governing council to lifelong servitude. This action is what officially marked the institution of slavery in Jamestown and the future United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jamestown,_Virginia_(1607–99)#1619:_First_Africans

Jamestown was not an American colony nor even a British Colony at that time, 1619.

Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/misguided-focus-1619-beginning-slavery-us-damages-our-understanding-american-history-180964873/#rw41X6dSPyUlLd4m.99

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery

Before going to the link above, everyone, ask yourself a simple question:

In what year did the former British/American Colonies, become America/the USA and recognized by the world powers as America.

Hint, It was not in 1619.

It was 1783! America’s independence was recognized by Britain in 1783.

The Emancipation Proclamation was in 1863, 80 years after we became a recognized country.

This year, 2020, will make freedom from Slavery/1863, for 157 years in America, the USA. Thanks to the The Emancipation Proclamation being declared in 1863.*

The US had legal slavery for 80 years! Liberal liars scream “400 years” of slavery, and it is a complete lie.

At this point, blacks in today’s America, have been free for much longer than their ancestors were slaves! (nearly twice as long).

*How many union soldiers died to free the Slaves: - Quora:
https://www.quora.com/How-many-union-soldiers-died

*Approximately 110,000 Union Soldiers died due to battle-related causes during the Civil War. Around 250,000 died of disease. Yes, you were more likely to die of illness later than on the battlefield. The deadliest battle for both sides was the infamous Battle of Gettysburg, totaling more than 50,000 casualties.

At least 360,000 Union soldiers died from battle causes or illnesses linked to their service in the Civil War. More suffered from physical and mental wounds for most of their lives post Civil War.

Women born just before, during and after the Civil War in the battleground states often died in their 20’s to 30’s. My Dad’s mother and one of her sisters died in their late 20’s. Women in their families before and decades after the civil war lived into their late 70’s to 80’s.

Lincoln: The Founders did not make America racist or slaver. They inherited it that way!

PGA Weblog ^
Posted on 9/2/2019, 4:35:14 PM by ProgressingAmerica

Abraham Lincoln:

Judge Douglas asks you, “Why cannot the institution of slavery, or rather, why cannot the nation, part slave and part free, continue as our fathers made it forever?” In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.

When Judge Douglas undertakes to say that, as a matter of choice, the fathers of the Government made this nation part slave and part free, he assumes what is historically a falsehood.

More than that: when the fathers of the Government cut off the source of slavery by the abolition of the slave-trade, and adopted a system of restricting it from the new Territories where it had not existed, I maintain that they placed it where they understood, and all sensible men understood, it was in the course of ultimate extinction; and when Judge Douglas asks me why it cannot continue as our fathers made it, I ask him why he and his friends could not let it remain as our fathers made it?

The Founding Fathers could not undo in just a few short years what the King spent over a century doing.

Because of the false teachings of progressivism, it has become one of the greatest of ironies that the “Great Emancipator” was also one of the most ardent defenders of the Founding Fathers - specifically on the topic of slavery.


14 posted on 10/07/2020 3:23:02 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (The line that separated Satire, Democrats and Stupidity has vanished. (thanks to jonascord)!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The NYT started delivering unasked issues to my driveway a while ago. Straight to recycle bin. Assholes.


15 posted on 11/16/2020 9:03:06 AM PST by pabianice
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