New York Times Wins Another Pulitzer For Falsifying History

The 1619 Project’s flagship essay has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize, even though it underwent a major correction and has been criticized as revisionist history by leading historians.

The New York Times’ 1619 Project argues that all of American history should be seen through the lens of slavery and the contributions of black Americans. It argues that America’s true founding should be considered August 1619, the year slaves were first brought to Jamestown, instead of July 4, 1776, the year America declared its independence from Great Britain.

Nikole Hannah-Jones’s prize-winning essay gets three major things so wrong, even the habitually biased Pulitzer Prize Board should have been able to recognize them.

Hannah-Jones’s Essay Is Garbage History

In true Howard Zinn fashion, Hannah-Jones chose to make a political point over writing accurate, fact-based history. In her essay, entitled “Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true,” she tried to demonstrate that America was racist from the beginning. To sell her point, she cherry-picked examples, willfully ignoring the whole picture.