REVIEW: What I Learned Watching ‘The 1619 Project’ on Hulu (Episodes 3-6)

Author’s note/ Disclaimer/Trigger warning: I haven’t yet read The 1619 Project. The essay collection of Nikole Hannah Jones and the award-winning essay collection New York Times. Or the best-selling Random House Anthology. Or the award-winning and best-selling book for children. The podcast is not something I’ve listened to and I don’t plan to. When there are so many other ways to communicate with your audience, I don’t think it is necessary. Spend one’s precious time.

The same goes for you True For the vast majority Americans, including for the vast majority black Americans. That’s obvious, right? The vast majority of internet users have strong opinions on whether or not it is. The 1619 Project It should be taught in public school, with the majority of politicians and pundits defending or denouncing it on television. This is often what passes as public discourse today in the digital age.—a shouting match among the passionately uninformed, while the People who don’t know better, or value their sanity more than they care. Tune out and do nothing

What I do know is that America’s élite universities are among the most radical purveyors of anti-anti-segregationist racial sensitivity nonsense, and among the quickest to quash even the slightest dissent in the ranks. The fact that Several Histories Professors Yale, Princeton, Brown and Northwestern strongly condemned The 1619 Project because of its historical significance. “errors and distortions” is profoundly damning. I will take their word for this. 

I also know that anyone—Nikole Hannah-Jones, for example—who Prices a public library $900 per minute to tell an audience Of bourgeois liberals The United States is “one of the most unequal societies in the history of the world” Some people may not value historical accuracy as highly as other things. Ditto a cultural establishment that promotes her work on numerous platforms and showers her with awards. We might be meant to take her seriously, but maybe not literally. 

Serious people wouldn’t claim to have said something so absurd in public. “a fact.” (Or Receipt To believe in “the zodiac.”) But that’s just how most Democratic politicians, journalists, and other professional left-wing activists who demand to be taken seriously communicate these days. The world is closing down. Democracy is in peril. “Jim Crow on steroids.” No wonder so many of their kids have turned to Terrorism in the home. 

They lecture this crap in universities and applaud it during corporate diversity summits. The video is now streaming on Hulu, a jointly owned subsidiary NBC Universal and The Walt Disney Company. It’s a job I get paid to do.