To Rescind The Pulitzer Prize

Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Pulitzer Prize-winning essay "The 1619 Project," was published by the New York Times in August, 2019. The National Association of Scholars says the essay is “profoundly flawed,” and is blowing the whistle on its author. If you think "The 1619 Project" is of little import, think again. You can get your 1619 T-shirt on Amazon.

On October 6, 2020, the National Association of Scholars called on the Pulitzer Prize Board to rescind the Pulitzer Prize awarded to Nikole Hannah-Jones for her essay, “The 1619 Project.” 

Hannah-Jones claimed that a primary motive for the American Revolution was to protect the institution of slavery. (Good for capitalism.) The National Association of Scholars points out this is “a claim for which there is simply no evidence.”

Hannah-Jones asserted that the “true founding” of the United States was in 1619, when the first ship arrived at Jamestown with about 20 slaves from Africa. She maintained that “our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written,” since at the center of our founding was slavery. 

Historians have called out the falsehoods of "The 1619 Project" since its publication. Even the World Socialist Web Site denounced “The 1619 Project” early on as a “racialist falsification of American and world history.”

The National Association of Scholars, in their October 6 letter to the Pulitzer Prize Board, declared the essay is “disfigured by unfounded conjectures and patently false assertions.”

Why should this fabricated "new version" of history concern us? Because "The 1619 Project" is used in public schools. 

Newsweek magazine reported September 7 that “every high school in the [Chicago] district will receive 200–400 copies” of “The 1619 Project” as a "resource to help reframe the institution of slavery, and how we're still influenced by it today." Other public schools share Chicago’s enthusiasm. Click here.

Are public schools in your area using “The 1619 Project?”

Check it out. If the answer is, “yes,” let the Superintendent and School Board know about the action of the National Association of Scholars. Send them this link to the NAS letter: 

https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/pulitzer-board-must-revoke-nikole-hannah-jones-prize#_ftn3

Urge them to pull "The 1619 Project" from the curriculum, so our public schools are not passing on false information to unsuspecting, trusting students. It leaves lasting bad impressions when teachers present false "history" as truth. 

Passing on a knowingly apocryphal story to students as legitimate history is, frankly, immoral.  

Another re-write of U.S. history used in public schools and universities is Howard Zinn's, A People’s History of the United States. It’s the “bible” of U.S. revisionist history. It’s a Critical Theory "gem" that helps explain why so many young people hate the United States and see it an evil empire needing to be brought down. 

It explains a lot.  

More next week.  

Click HERE, and you will be taken to a short photo essay published by The New York Times based on "The 1619 Project." You will see the "power narrative" of Critical Theory in living color (the oppressed v. the oppressors). This photo essay will help you understand why so many young people hate capitalism, "Western civilization" and the U.S.A.

"The 1619 Project" will also help you understand what is driving a serious wedge between fellow Americans like nothing we have seen since the 1950s, through racial accusation and stereotyping. This time it's directed against white Europeans and "Western culture."

People of European descent who deny their guilt only prove it, and demonstrate their "white fragility." To salve their guilt, and to demonstrate whose "side" they are on, some will throw Molotov cocktails through storefront windows. 

At the end of the photo essay, you will see a message directed to teachers:

"Looking for ways to use this issue in your classroom? You can find curriculums, guides and activities for students developed by the Pulitzer Center at pulitzercenter.org/1619. And it's all free!" 

Pass this post on if you care about what's happening to our nation and you want to help others understand why statues are being desecrated (including Abraham Lincoln), why all "white" people are considered "racists," why businesses are being burned (whether owned by "blacks" or "whites"), and why President Trump issued an Executive Order to withhold federal funding from any organization that propagates Critical Race Theory (CRT). 

CRT is now dividing businesses, churches, and communities. It could split an entire nation at the seams. 

If you have not viewed the short, animated video "P + CT = X (A Formula for Collapse)," please do so here. 

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