{"id":1633579,"date":"2022-09-06T07:17:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T11:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1633579"},"modified":"2022-09-06T07:17:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T11:17:58","slug":"not-convinced-the-1619-project-lies-about-history-look-at-this-professors-forced-confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-convinced-the-1619-project-lies-about-history-look-at-this-professors-forced-confession\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Convinced The 1619 Project Lies About History? Look At This Professor\u2019s Forced Confession"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fnot-convinced-the-1619-project-lies-about-history-look-at-this-professors-forced-confession%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=1633579&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--><p>In August, history professor James H. Sweet wrote that the 1619 Project illustrated the problem of \u00a0\u201cpresentism\u201d in history. In an American Historical Association essay, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/publications-and-directories\/perspectives-on-history\/september-2022\/is-history-history-identity-politics-and-teleologies-of-the-present\">Is History History?<\/a>\u201d \u00a0he argued The New York Times\u2019s 1619 Project looks at \u201cthe past through the prism of contemporary social justice issues\u2014race, gender, sexuality, nationalism, capitalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sweet almost immediately found himself attacked by <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/25\/american-historical-association-falls-prey-to-presentism-struggle-session\/\">a mob<\/a> of historians for not adhering to the standards of \u201cpresentism.\u201d He quickly groveled with a public apology and a walkback of his gentle initial observations.  <\/p>\n<p>Yet he wasn\u2019t wrong at all. To make the case that all white people should pay black people for what the 1619 Project calls (white) America\u2019s \u201cOriginal Sin\u201d of slavery, one needs to present all white people as complicit in the enterprise and all black people as innocent and blameless victims. Certainly, the false idea that slavery was unique to America and practiced only by white people is a commonly held belief.<\/p>\n<p>1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones is not a historian, but a journalist specializing in race issues. So she might be excused for not knowing about the African role in the slave trade, the ubiquitous nature of slavery throughout history (in which no ethnic groups, races, or faiths are exempt), and the fact that many free black people also owned slaves. But Hannah-Jones does not accept correction; she attacks every critic as a racist or race traitor.<\/p>\n<p>As I\u2019ve learned from researching for my new book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Debunking-1619-Project-Exposing-America\/dp\/1684513065\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\">Debunking The 1619 Project<\/a>,\u201d Hannah-Jones <em>knowingly<\/em> presents falsehoods about American history and slavery, such as that all white people are morally culpable for slavery and that all black people are blameless. In this episode, she helped the Twitter mob pile onto Sweet, while making the <em>very same<\/em> point for which he was being attacked.<\/p>\n<p>Hannah-Jones revealed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/books\/newsletter\/2021-11-06\/book-club-newsletter-nikole-hannah-jones-the-1619-project-book-club\"><em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> interview<\/a> that her favorite novel was \u201cThe Known World\u201d by Edward Jones, which is about a black slave-owning family in antebellum Virginia. So she\u2019s aware black slave ownership happened. Yet she insulted and then blocked me on Twitter when I pointed out the racially inconvenient fact that a significant percentage of free black Americans owned slaves. That was one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Debunking-1619-Project-Exposing-America\/dp\/1684513065\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1661803944&amp;sr=1-1\">two lies<\/a> I have caught her in.<\/p>\n<p>After she blocked me, she scolded another tweeter who complained that the left sees American \u201cexceptionalism\u201d in the practice of slavery as \u201cuniquely or distinctly American.\u201d \u201cYou should do more reading,\u201d she lectured. \u201cBecause there is a difference between a society that permits slavery and engages in slavery, and a slave society, where the entire society is organized around slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She pointed out that what made American slavery \u201cexceptional\u201d was that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nhannahjones\/status\/1468024060173078541\">American slavery<\/a> took place in the only country FOUNDED on the God-given equality and rights of mankind.\u201d She mocked the idea of \u201cusing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nhannahjones\/status\/1467950476582916098?cxt=HHwWhMC4icrLmt8oAAAA\">1,000-year-old history<\/a> to justify downplaying 150-year-old history\u201d\u2014an admission that American slavery is deliberately being presented in isolation and therefore distortedly.<\/p>\n<p>One of Sweet\u2019s thought crimes had been criticizing the claim of the forthcoming movie, \u201cThe Woman King\u201d that \u201cDahomey\u2019s female warriors and King Ghezo fought the European slave trade.\u201d Sweet, a specialist in African history, pointed out that, on the contrary, \u201cthey <em>promoted<\/em> it\u201d (emphasis added).<\/p>\n<p>While Hannah-Jones was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aier.org\/article\/the-suicide-of-the-american-historical-association\/\">retweeting<\/a> attacks on Sweet, she was also commenting on \u201cThe Woman King.\u201d She noted, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/moguldom.com\/419587\/black-america-debates-the-woman-king-film-and-whether-heroes-can-come-from-dahomey-slave-traders\/\">It will be interesting<\/a> to see how a movie that seems to glorify an all-female military unit of the Dahomey deals with the fact that this kingdom derived its wealth from capturing Africans for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some commentators on Hannah-Jones\u2019s thread mentioned Zora Neale Hurston\u2019s \u201cBarracoon: The Story of the Last \u2018Black Cargo,\u2019\u201d which was based on Hurston\u2019s interviews in 1927 and 1928 with Cudjo Lewis, one of the last survivors of a cargo of slaves brought to American shores illegally in 1860. He had been captured at the age of 19 in a raid employing female warriors from Dahomey\u2014the very subjects of \u201cThe Woman King.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As I discuss in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Debunking-1619-Project-Exposing-America\/dp\/1684513065\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\">Debunking The 1619 Project<\/a>,\u201d Cudjo, of \u201cthe Isha subgroup of the Yoruba people of West Africa,\u201d then known by his native name, Kossola, had been undergoing initiation for marriage when his town of Bant\u0450 was raided in the early morning hours \u201cby Dahomey\u2019s female warriors, who slaughtered [townspeople] in their daze.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Hurston recorded Cudjo Lewis\u2019s account tells of seeing the severed and rotting heads of family members and being \u201cyoked by forked sticks and tied in a chain\u201d with other villagers on a three-day march to the stockades at Abomey. She was then incarcerated in the barracoons at Ouidah. She commented, \u201cKossula was no longer on the porch with me. He was squatting about that fire in Dahomey. His face was twitching in abysmal pain\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Alice Walker said in her foreword to the book, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Barracoon-Story-Last-Black-Cargo\/dp\/0062748203\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1661802136&amp;sr=1-1\">published in 2018<\/a>, \u201cmany black people, years ago, especially black intellectuals and political leaders,\u201d had a problem with the book, which \u201cresolutely record[ed] the atrocities African people inflicted on each other, long before shackled Africans, traumatized, ill, disoriented, starved, arrived on ships as \u2018black cargo\u2019 in the hellish West.\u201d She asked, \u201cWho could face this vision of the violent cruel behavior of the \u2018brethren\u2019 and the \u2018sistren\u2019 who first captured our ancestors?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such questions, which defy the facile and false categorization of people as evil or good based on race or ideological inclination, also occupied the novelist Jones in his resonant and beautifully written \u201cThe Known World,\u201d which is also a favorite of mine. Good novelists present characters realistically, as having both good and bad characteristics.<\/p>\n<p>Good historians similarly recognize the complexity of human beings. All are all capable of good and evil. Historians do not alter the evidence to make it appear differently.<\/p>\n<p>Historians do not make sweeping, incendiary statements like this one from Hannah-Jones\u2019s lead essay in both the original and book versions: \u201cIn response to black demands for [their] rights, white Americans strung them from trees, beat them and dumped their bodies in muddy rivers, assassinated them in their front yards, firebombed them on buses, mauled them with dogs, peeled back their skin with fire hoses and murdered their children with explosives set off inside a church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As professor Lynn Uzzell noted, out of the 77 times the term \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2021\/09\/12\/its_time_to_acknowledge_anti-white_racism_146391.html\">white<\/a>\u201d appears in Hannah-Jones\u2019s 1619 Project, 35 times white people are presented as holding \u201csome kind of power or privilege (almost always unearned or illegitimate)\u201d and in 32 cases, \u201cthe word is associated with oppression, injustice, or cruelty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kindergartners are being read the 1619 Project picture book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/1619-Project-Born-Water\/dp\/0593307356\">Born on the Water<\/a>.\u201d They will be told that people in Africa were \u201ckidnapped\u201d exclusively by \u201cwhite people,\u201d who \u201ctraded another\u2019s child \/ another\u2019s momma and daddy\u201d whom they viewed as \u201cnot human\u201d and to be \u201cbought and sold \u2026 alongside horses and chairs.\u201d That is not an accurate depiction of this complex situation, and simplifying in this way encourages racial bitterness.<\/p>\n<p>We know Hannah-Jones knows that white people are not all to blame and that black people also participated in the horrors of slavery, but she pushes such lies anyway. With Hannah-Jones revealing herself to be a liar over and over, there should be no more doubts about the need to take the 1619 Project propaganda out of our schools.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Mary Grabar, the author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fake-History-Generation-Against-America\/dp\/1621577732\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\">Debunking Howard Zinn<\/a>,&#8221; earned her PhD from the University of Georgia and taught college English for 20 years. She is now a resident fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization in Clinton, New York. She is also author of the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.regnery.com\/9781684513062\/debunking-the-1619-project\/\">Debunking The 1619 Project: Exposing the Plan to Divide America<\/a>&#8221; (Regnery, September 7, 2021). Her writing can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dissidentprof.com\/\">DissidentProf.com<\/a> and at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marygrabar.com\/\">marygrabar.com<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-comments mt-30 mt-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-comments-container d-flex flex-column align-items-center py-30\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"110\" height=\"106\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/fdrlst-mark.svg\" class=\"img-fluid mb-20\" alt=\"The Federalist logo eagle mark\" \/>    <\/p>\n<p>Unlock commenting by joining the Federalist Community.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/plans\/pricing\/\" class=\"btn btn-on-white\">Subscribe<\/a>  <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August, history professor James H. Sweet wrote that the 1619 Project illustrated the problem of \u00a0\u201cpresentism\u201d in history. 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