1619 Project, Debunked By Historians For Calling American Independence A Conspiracy To Protect Slavery, Continues To Be Marketed To Schoolchildren
The Times Is No Longer “A Newspaper Of Record,” Says Black Activist, Calling It Instead “A Vicious Caricature Of Its Once Respectable Self”
Washington, D.C. – Instead of renouncing the debunked 1619 Project, New York Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger today patted himself on the back for sparking debate with a revisionist history that has been distributed to schools nationwide.
During the annual New York Times shareholder meeting, the first one ever to be held virtually, Christopher Arps, a member of the Project 21 black leadership network of the National Center for Public Policy Research, submitted this question:
But Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger nonetheless called it a "real value to the public.” Chris later said:
Objective newspapers do not "start dialogues" by spreading falsehoods, nor do they fail to correct their errors when forced to acknowledge them. The 1619 Project makes clear, once and for all, that the Times in 2020 is not a newspaper of record. It's a vicious caricature of its once respectable self.
The 1619 Project, designed to put slavery at the center of the American experience, claims that United States independence arose as an effort to head off abolitionist efforts by Britain. Despite being disputed by eminent historians from across the political spectrum, and despite an admission from the head of the Project that she had made a mistake, this take on American history has been sent to schools around the country, where its being taught as truth...
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