“[A]ny report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda,” Duranty wrote at the height of Stalin’s forced famine in the early 1930s. The New York Times The 1619 Project History Slavery Culture There is a sense in which the Pulitzer Prizes and The New York Times deserve one another. Karl Marx did not make many witty remarks. It was a show-stopper. They were wrong about the timing of that, but the fact remains, as Wood notes, that the Constitution (Article I, Section 9) set an end date on the importation of slaves and that “most Americans were confident that the despicable transatlantic slave trade was definitely going to end in 1808.”. … So supposing the Americans hadn’t broken away, there would have been a larger number of slaveholders in the greater British world who might have been able to prolong slavery longer than 1833.”, The truth is that in 1776, the American Founders, Southerners as much as Northerners, believed that slavery was on its way out. The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. This was something that Dean Baquet, Executive Editor of the Times, grasped instantly. “Awarded itself”? The hallway full of photographs of Pulitzer winners was impressive. McPherson trod delicately but nonetheless concluded with the brutal assessment that The 1619 Project provided “a very unbalanced, one-sided account, which lacked context and perspective on the complexity of slavery.” Wood concurred and went further. Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. Et voilà, The 1619 Project, which the paper described in a preface as a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. Forget about the Stamp Act, the, Boston Tea Party, the Intolerable Acts, “No taxation without representation,” etc. “[S]ome might argue,” as Hannah-Jones coyly puts it, “that this nation was founded not as a democracy but as a slavocracy.” Gosh. The Revolution unleashed antislavery sentiments that led to the first abolition movements in the history of the world.” The 1619 Project pretends that the British were great crusaders in the campaign against slavery. But the real lesson of the Times’s new Pulitzer is that something can be farcical without being funny—or, more to the point, it can be farcical while still being malicious. Considered as a call to action, however, it has gone from success to success. Henceforth, or at least “for the next two years”—the remainder of Trump’s first term—the Times was going all in on “race, and other divisions.” Robert Mueller couldn’t get Trump. Among the Times’s allies in this effort to revolutionize the teaching of American history on the basis of a malign racialist fantasy is The Pulitzer Center, which declared that it was “proud to be the education partner for The 1619 Project.” All the news reports noting the participation of the Pulitzer Center were careful to point out that it was unaffiliated with the Pulitzer Prizes. Read preview. Nevertheless, the paper is not entirely without influence, even today. But I think that’s what we’re going to have to do for the rest of the next two years.” Et voilà, The 1619 Project, which the paper described in a preface as. It is the same with the contention that 1619, the year that the first African slaves were brought to America, marked “the beginning of the system of slavery on which the country was built.” But there were already slaves and various other forms of indentured labor in the Americas as there were all over the world. Fortunately, a rational, historically informed response to The 1619 Project has been building. Eminent historians from the Left, Right, and Center lined up to repudiate this racially charged distortion of American history. “Now we have to regroup,” Baquet told the assembled troops, “and shift resources and emphasis to take on a different story.” What story? For two years, the Times had invested heavily in the vaudeville entertainment called “Trump–Russia.” The spectacular failure of its leading man, Special Counsel Robert Mueller, to deliver a happy ending to that fiasco underscored the essential futility of the entire enterprise. This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 38 Number 5, on page 1 Copyright © 2020 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com https://newcriterion.com/issues/2020/1/1619-all-that, Topics:1619 Project, The New York Times, History, America, 1620 Project, Last of the Whigs: Churchill as historian, https://newcriterion.com/issues/2020/1/1619-all-that. But truth does not matter when there is a political agenda to be advanced. “[O]ne of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain,” she wrote, “was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery.” So, everything you learned about the American Revolution is wrong, or at least wrongheaded. In January, we reported on The 1619 Project. The New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project is a gross misrepresentation of history. That is part of the farce. “The 1619 Project,” he wrote, “is not history: it is polemic, born in the imaginations of those whose primary target is capitalism itself and who hope to tarnish capitalism by associating it with slavery.”. . The Pulitzer Center (not affiliated with the famed prizes) has announced that it “is proud to be the education partner for The 1619 Project.” As we write, the Center’s website is full of little valentines to Hannah-Jones and her racialist, ahistorical fantasy about the founding of the United States. As a reader of our efforts, you have stood with us on the front lines in the battle for culture. You might say, Who cares about insane rantings in The New York Times? Quoth the Pulitzer citation: For a sweeping, deeply reported and personal essay for the ground-breaking 1619 Project, which seeks to place the enslavement of Africans at the center of America’s story, prompting public conversation about the nation’s founding and evolution. The object of this History is to console the reader.”. To say that there were slaves in America is not to say that “the country was built” on slavery. The idea that the American Revolution was fomented in order to protect slavery is simply ridiculous. Considered as an intellectual artifact, The 1619 Project has been thoroughly, utterly discredited. The 1619 Project from The New York Times Magazine is inaugurated with a special issue that examines the modern-day legacy of slavery through over 30 essays and creative works. As a reader of our efforts, you have stood with us on the front lines in the battle for culture. . The 1619 Project represents a new nadir in the politically correct, anti-American machinations of The New York Times. T But the question is whether truth even comes into consideration in what passes for mainstream journalism today. Trailer: Introducing ‘1619’ Four hundred years ago, a ship carrying enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia. The last time we visited the paper’s offices was many years ago, back when it was on West Forty-third Street. Many sober observers would have dismissed it as beneath comment were it not that the residual prestige of the Times lends currency if not credibility to its illiterate and partisan contentions. In August 2019, the New York Times Magazine launched The 1619 Project on the 400 th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to Jamestown. Copyright © 1982-2020 All rights reserved. Roger concludes his take down of the 1619 project on a mildly optimistic note: The 1619 Project represents a new nadir in the politically correct, anti … Josh Christenson - MAY 10, 2020 2:35 PM The creator of the controversial 1619 Project, a New York Times Magazine commentary series on the impact of slavery in America, is now saying her work was meant to be "journalism" and "not a history." Nikole Hannah-Jones will make a fitting addition to that gallery. For Hannah-Jones, what is wanted is an expression that simultaneously justifies the endless whining of black radicals about how victimized they are because of things that happened a few centuries ago while also stressing the perpetually renewable guilt (like the liver of Prometheus) of whites, all whites, those living today even more than those actually involved in the African slave trade in the seventeenth, eighteenth, or nineteenth centuries. We are a bit late in getting to that dog's breakfast called 'The 1619 Project," The New York Timers effort to "reframe"--read, "wildly distort"--die history and governing impetus of the American Founding. Presumably, however, neither Hannah-Jones nor the Times intends for us to take the metaphor quite so seriously. In January, we noted that “various public school districts, including some in Chicago” had announced that they would supplement their curricula by distributing copies of The 1619 Project to students. But the sad if almost incredible truth is that in some quarters such an award still confers prestige upon the recipient, as even publishing in The New York Times does, or so we are told. We didn’t know the half of it. You all are going to have to help us shape that vision. Moreover, the African slaves were not “kidnapped” by American or British slavers, as Hannah-Jones asserts, but were sold by other black Africans who were happy to profit by selling people they had enslaved to the colonists. It’s just that it is controlled—de facto, if not de jure—by the Times and a handful of like-minded entities.Which of course is the reason that the Times has accumulated so many of them. 1619 Project: The NYT's Disinformation Campagin Roger Kimball, The New Criterion December 22, 2019 AP Photo/Richard Drew, File On The … Isn’t there an independent committee that decides who and what institutions receive what prize? Neither was consulted by the perpetrators of The 1619 Project. The New Criterion: "1619 And All That: On The NYT's Recent Disinformation Campaign" Brutal , but deserved: We are a bit late in getting to that dog’s breakfast called “The 1619 Project,” The New York Times’s effort to “reframe”—read, “wildly distort”—the history and governing impetus of the American Founding. We suppose it is a mark of how extreme is The New York Times’s latest attack on America that some of the most vigorous rejoinders appear in the World Socialist Web Site, which has run long interviews with two deans of the history of the American Founding, James McPherson and Gordon Wood, neither of whom were consulted by the Times for The 1619 Project. a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. http://pulitzercenter.org/builder/lesson/reading-guide-quotes-key-terms-and-questions-26504 The 1619 Project represents a new nadir in the politically correct, anti-American machinations of The New York Times. My last post addressed the New York Times’ 1619 Project. Guelzo was doubtless right when he noted in The Wall Street Journal recently that while those associated with The 1619 Project will wave the Pulitzer as “credibility insurance,” “credibility isn’t the same as truth.” Indeed. But his oft-quoted observation that history tends to repeat itself “first as tragedy, then as farce” is a mot for the ages. Learn how your support contributes to our continued defense of truth. Last summer, he huddled with his staff in a town-hall-style meeting—the proceedings of which were promptly leaked—and acknowledged a sad truth: “We built our newsroom to cover one story” (the now-debunked story that Donald Trump had “colluded” with Russia to steal the 2016 election). . TriceEdneyWire.com On Sunday, the New York Times unveiled “The 1619 Project,” a journalistic series in the Sunday magazine that seeks to tell the “unvarnished truth” about slavery and its impact on America’s history. As we write, the wildly tendentious, historically dubious tenets of The 1619 Project have been insinuated into the curricula of more than 3,500 school districts across the country. Maybe the Times could by writing about race in a “thoughtful,” i.e., obsessive and one-sided, way—“something,” Baquet added “we haven’t done in a large way in a long time.”, So there you have it. 1619 & all that. It is increasingly a niche publication for the credentialed, politically correct nomenklatura, totally out of touch with the main current of America and held afloat only by its unremitting attacks on anything to do with Donald Trump. Here is a portion of a take on it from the New Criterion: It was to console its core readership that The New York Times undertook The 1619 Project in a special flood-the-zone issue of its Sunday magazine in August and then in a snazzy, graphics-heavy series of features on its website. a very unbalanced, one-sided account, which lacked context and perspective on the complexity of slavery, which was clearly, obviously, not an exclusively American institution, but existed throughout history. . The Angela Project Presents The 400th Year Commemoration Ceremony: 1619-2019: Commemorating 400 Years of Institutionalized Slavery in Colonized America. Magazine article New Criterion. But with the news that the Times had awarded itself a Pulitzer Prize for the lead essay from the 1619 Project, the façade of independence cracked. Learn how your support contributes to our continued defense of truth. The American colonists might talk about liberty. It … Not officially, perhaps. 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