Hulu's 1619 Project Docuseries Peddles False History

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The New York Times' 1619 Project selected Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, as a filming location for its new Hulu docuseries. In doing so, creator Nikole Hannah-Jones sought to bolster her project's most troublesome claim—the assertion that British overtures toward emancipation impelled the American colonists into revolution, ultimately securing an independent United States.

In the past three years, the Times has grappled with the fallout from Hannah-Jones' assertion, including the revelation that it ignored its own fact-checker's warnings against printing the charge. The Times tempered its language to apply to "some of" the colonists, only to see it reasserted by Hannah-Jones in her public commentaries. Later, a related line about the Project's goal of replacing 1776 with a "true founding" of 1619 disappeared without notice from the Times' website. The newspaper found itself in a balancing act between its writer's uncompromising positions and the need to preserve credibility as it made a Pulitzer Prize bid with the series. But Hannah-Jones was not ready to abandon the claim at the center of her lead essay, and the first episode of the Hulu series makes that abundantly clear.

nslaver, plantation master, and Royalist autocrat as a leading and even celebrated agent of emancipation.

 

The scene opens in Williamsburg on the grounds of its reconstructed colonial Governor's Palace, where Hannah-Jones joins University of South Carolina professor Woody Holton—one of a handful of heterodox historians who defended the 1619 Project's original narrative. As the cameras pan across streets filled with historical re-enactors and tourists in front of restored colonial buildings, the pair take another stab at resurrecting the 1619 Project's narrative about the American Revolution. The evidence that a British threat to slavery impelled Virginians—or perhaps "the colonists" at large, in Hannah-Jones' imprecise phrasing—to revolt may be found in the November 1775 decree of John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, Virginia's last Royalist governor. Facing the collapse of British rule, Dunmore announced that any enslaved male from a household in rebellion would be granted freedom in exchange for military service on the British side.

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Disney’s insane embrace of toxic ‘1619’ lies

The House of Mouse is still pushing woke nonsense. Its latest effort? A streaming series from its Hulu subsidiary based on New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones’ poisonous 1619 Project, an error-riddled piece of propaganda that reframes all of American history as an effort to maintain white supremacy.

Viewers rightly furious over the project’s lies and distortions are already canceling their subscriptions. Good.

Indeed, the biggest lie 1619 tells is right there in its title: the claim that America was truly founded that year, when slaves first reached Jamestown. This is ridiculous on its face.

But don’t take our word for it. The Times memory-holed this idea from its website just in time for Pulitzer season (Hannah-Jones won, of course). 

Another false, equally central claim is that the American Revolution was undertaken in large part to keep slavery legal. Leslie M. Harris, a leading black historian of slavery in America, told Hannah-Jones this was false before initial publication, but the “journalist” ignored this debunking and has gone on repeating the claim ever since. :snip:

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2 minutes ago, Geee said:

The New York Times' 1619 Project selected Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, as a filming location for its new Hulu docuseries.

Sigh . . . Colonial Williamsburg was one of our favorite vacation destinations.  Woke ruins another good thing!

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Hulu's 1619 Project Docuseries Peddles False History

 

Alas it is Still in Grade/Middle/High Schools. Remember when, shortly after it came out 100's of historians (Left/Center/Right) came out to denounce it?  1 day story in corporate media. What this means is We..Have..Work..To..Do!!! This is where we come into the picture/battle.