{"id":1789244,"date":"2022-12-29T06:13:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T11:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1789244"},"modified":"2022-12-29T06:20:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T11:20:02","slug":"washington-post-makes-groundbreaking-discovery-that-u-s-once-had-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-makes-groundbreaking-discovery-that-u-s-once-had-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post makes ground-breaking discovery that the United States once had slavery"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fwashington-post-makes-groundbreaking-discovery-that-u-s-once-had-slavery%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=1789244&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-->\n<p>The Washington Post is apparently undergoing a year-long investigation into slavery and the relationship between the US Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Who would have thought? I certainly didn\u2019t, because I generally don\u2019t look to newspapers to explain American history to me. Robin DiAngelo, IbramX Kendi and IbramX Kendi all hated the 1619 Project as an attempt to explain American history. The project was deemed bogus by historians from all sides, including Left to Right.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post, being less ambitious than the NYT, is giving us a dime-store version of the 1619 Project which relies more on innuendo than outright falsehoods to slander America\u2019s Founding.<\/p>\n<p>The first piece of the project is revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/interactive\/2022\/congress-slaveowners-names-list\/?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that there were slaveholders in Congress<\/a>Breaking news that was suppressed for centuries.<\/p>\n<p>What struck me first about the piece was the bylines\u2013a Washington Post \u201cLocal\u201d Two graphic designers and reporters who you would expect to cover crime and city government. This group of authors explains why the piece is so elegantly done, yet so boringly reported.<\/p>\n<p>To me, it seems that if there were a \u201cLocal\u201d Reporter in DC sought to find scandalous stories. What do I know?<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Exclusive: Washington Post investigated more than 400 artworks inside the U.S. Capitol building and found nearly one third of honor enslavers\/Confederates. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VTLeBgfpG0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/VTLeBgfpG0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/washingtonpost\/status\/1608082093912776706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The existence of this series was discovered by me after I read a detailed report on the Capitol&#8217;s artwork. Amazingly, the author <a class=\"gray-darkest hover-gray-dark decoration-gray-dark underline hover-none decoration-1 underline-offset-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/gillian-brockell\/\" rel=\"author noopener\" data-qa=\"author-name\" target=\"_blank\">Gillian Brockell<\/a>\u00a0Expose that many of her artworks are depictions of slaveholders (or as she calls them) \u201censlavers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The word \u201censlaver\u201d It appears 98 times in this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post is apparently undergoing a year-long investigation into slavery and the relationship between the US Congress. Who would have thought? I certainly didn\u2019t, because I generally don\u2019t look to newspapers to explain American history to me. Robin DiAngelo, IbramX Kendi and IbramX Kendi all hated the 1619 Project as an attempt to explain &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1789247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,6970,12294,4899,3819,12295,5087,4086],"class_list":["post-1789244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-discovery","tag-ground-breaking","tag-post","tag-report","tag-slavery","tag-united","tag-washington"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789244","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1789247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}