{"id":1195648,"date":"2022-01-07T00:05:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T05:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1195648"},"modified":"2022-01-07T00:05:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T05:05:14","slug":"nikole-hannah-jones-to-critics-on-her-error-tweeting-incorrect-year-for-start-of-civil-war-it-is-what-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikole-hannah-jones-to-critics-on-her-error-tweeting-incorrect-year-for-start-of-civil-war-it-is-what-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikole Hannah-Jones to Critics on Her Error Tweeting Incorrect Year for Start of Civil War: \u2018It Is What It Is\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnikole-hannah-jones-to-critics-on-her-error-tweeting-incorrect-year-for-start-of-civil-war-it-is-what-it-is%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1195648&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/42609597794_66c49268aa_k-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Nikole Hannah-Jones, the non-historian who served as the primary author of the widely-discredited \u201c1619 Project,\u201d reacted to Twitter users this week, who called her out on her failure to provide the correct year for the start of the Civil War, with the statement, \u201cIt is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We did not stop the expansion of slavery, and enslavers dominated the presidency, Senate and Supreme Court until 1865, when the North was reluctantly drawn into a war that ultimately ended slavery.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nhannahjones\/status\/1478049554603909123?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>BizPacReview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizpacreview.com\/2022\/01\/06\/1619s-nikole-hannah-jones-called-out-for-not-knowing-crucial-date-amid-lecture-on-civil-war-1185146\/?utm_medium=Newsletter&amp;utm_source=Salesforce&amp;utm_term=EMAIL&amp;utm_content=Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=AW&amp;utm_medium=Newsletter&amp;utm_source=Get%20Response&amp;utm_term=EMAIL&amp;utm_content=Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=bizpac\">called<\/a> attention to Hannah-Jones\u2019 tweet in which she stated, \u201cWe did not stop the expansion of slavery, and enslavers dominated the presidency, Senate and Supreme Court until 1865, when the North was reluctantly drawn into a war that ultimately ended slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After some other Twitter users noted her factual error, Hannah-Jones responded, \u201cIt was poorly worded, I meant until 1865 ended the war, which the North had been reluctantly drawn into.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI realized people want to catch me up,\u201d she added. \u201cI doubt anyone believes I do not know when the Civil War started. But, it is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Um\u2026..<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AstorAaron?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AstorAaron<\/a> you may need to help her with some dates here<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Scott &#8220;this is as far as the b@st@rds are going.\u201d (@ScottC20012) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottC20012\/status\/1478147364682559489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It was poorly worded, I meant until 1865 ended the war, which the North had been reluctantly drawn into. I realized people want to catch me up. I doubt anyone believes I do not know when the Civil War started. But, it is what it is.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nhannahjones\/status\/1478148965774381057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In an exclusive comment to Breitbart News, historian Mary Grabar, Ph.D., author of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Debunking-1619-Project-Exposing-America\/dp\/1684511771\">Debunking The 1619 Project: Exposing the Plan to Divide America<\/a>, <\/em>said, \u201cI am not surprised.\u201d Grabar said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In Nikole Hannah-Jones\u2019s conspiratorial view of history there is only one date that matters: 1619. As she has stated on MSNBC in speeches, and on Twitter in the past, \u20181619 explains January 6,\u2019 \u20181619 explains the death of Breonna Taylor,\u2019 and \u2018the legacy of 1619,\u2019 she said after the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, was \u2018in this country you can even kill white people and get away with it if those white people are fighting for Black lives (HJ tweet).\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIn other words, 1619 explains everything,\u201d Grabar concluded. \u201cThat\u2019s all you need to know in her view. The 1619 Project is rife with errors, as I pointed out and corrected in my book.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other Twitter users have since continued to comment on Hannah-Jones\u2019 error:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">That\u2019s strike 2 on History. Care to take a swing and miss at the final strike?  How can you possibly think you are correct with your 1619 fantasy when you make a big mistake with basic history, then make another when you try to correct yourself?  Also, it\u2019s not hard to catch you<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Johnson (@gwdeckard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gwdeckard\/status\/1478923364098007040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Your \u201ccorrection\u201d to a \u201cpoorly worded\u201d post is still poorly worded. Let me help you since your degree in journalism doesn\u2019t seem to be helping. \u201c\u2026into which the North had been reluctantly drawn.\u201d That\u2019s correct grammar. Wrong facts, but correct grammar.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Domesticated Ranger (@realRonLink) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realRonLink\/status\/1479051661117112323?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It makes me wonder if you realize that it was a Republican Abraham Lincoln who ended slavery. Or whether you realize that the KKK was started by the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Killoran Fiander (@KilloranFiander) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KilloranFiander\/status\/1478896423823241217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Don&#8217;t underestimate yourself. I, one hundred percent, believe that you didn&#8217;t know when the Civil War started until you were caught out.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Furious George \ud83d\udc22 (@NYPinstripes67) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYPinstripes67\/status\/1478916268795338754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In April, the Biden education department&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2021\/04\/19\/2021-08068\/proposed-priorities-american-history-and-civics-education#print\">proposed<\/a>&nbsp;a rule urging the development of \u201cculturally responsive teaching\u201d in American History and Civics and held up the \u201c1619 Project\u201d as a model for schools to teach children the United States is fundamentally a racist nation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The U.S. Education Department announced the rule is in keeping with President Joe Biden\u2019s executive order&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2021\/01\/25\/2021-01753\/advancing-racial-equity-and-support-for-underserved-communities-through-the-federal-government\">titled<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cAdvancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n[T]here is growing&nbsp;acknowledgement [SIC] of the importance of including, in the teaching and learning of our country\u2019s history, both the consequences of slavery, and the significant contributions of Black Americans to our society. This acknowledgement [SIC] is reflected, for example, in the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>\u2018 landmark \u20181619 Project\u2019 and in the resources of the Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of African American History.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hannah-Jones was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her \u201c1619 Project\u201d even though, following criticism from noted historians of all political stripes, the newspaper ultimately&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/the-media\/2020\/09\/21\/nolte-1619-projects-fires-off-new-lies-to-cover-up-old-lies\/\">scrapped<\/a>&nbsp;the project\u2019s central theme that the true founding of America was 1619, the year the first slaves were brought to the colonies.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, some school districts have already <a href=\"https:\/\/dc.medill.northwestern.edu\/blog\/2020\/07\/21\/the-1619-project-curriculum-taught-in-over-4500-schools-frederick-county-public-schools-has-the-option\/#sthash.MMKHvUYJ.dpbs\">incorporated<\/a> Hannah-Jones\u2019 work into their history and civics curricula.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Kirsanow, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/09\/16\/u-s-civil-rights-commissioner-peter-kirsanow-1619-project-sheer-propaganda\/\">said<\/a>&nbsp;in September 2020, the \u201c1619 Project\u201d is \u201cone of the most significant attempts to propagandize history\u201d he has seen in his lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>This is \u201can all-hands-on-deck situation,\u201d he warned during a National Association of Scholars web conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have seen what I believe to be a corruption of history, a distortion of history,\u201d he asserted, adding that Hannah-Jones \u201cis using the tools of a 20th-century form of oppression, to consciously, or not, present her version of, and that of many on the left\u2019s, version of slavery in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikole Hannah-Jones, the non-historian who served as the primary author of the widely-discredited \u201c1619 Project,\u201d reacted to Twitter users this week, who called her out on her failure to provide &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}