The 1619 Project (in the New York Times Magazine)

[David Lockmiller]

(06-05-2020 06:27 AM)David Lockmiller Wrote:  Here's the latest and greatest in "revisionist American history," from President Donald Trump in a June 3, 2020 tweet:

"I have done more for Black Americans, in fact, than any President in U.S. history with the possible exception of another Republican President, the late, great, Abraham Lincoln . . . and its not even close." [Emphasis added.]

Perhaps President Trump will win the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for this tweet. The standard set in 2020 for this award is very low.

Here's another competitor's entry for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary:

Near the end of 8,000+ word essay (June 26, 2020) by Nikole Hannah-Jones in the New York Times Magazine, titled "What is Owed," there is the following specious narrative conclusion regarding who is going to actually pay for these presumably sizable reparations (no dollar amount proposed) to all descendants of black slaves in America:

“Reparations are not about punishing white Americans, and white Americans are not the ones who would pay for them. It does not matter if your ancestors engaged in slavery or if you just immigrated here two weeks ago. Reparations are a societal obligation in a nation where our Constitution sanctioned slavery….and so it is the federal government that pays.”

The comment to this story with the most reader recommendations (293), began with this same Nikole Hannah-Jones quotation.

"I’m genuinely perplexed by these words in the article," the comment began.

Wouldn’t Federal government payments have to be raised through taxes, though? That's where the Federal government gets money.

So wouldn’t every taxpayer in the country in fact be paying for reparations?

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This offending paragraph, written by Nikole Hannah-Jones, strongly reminds me of her equally misleading description of President Lincoln's August 14, 1862 meeting in the White House with the five prominent black leaders on the subject of colonization.

So, I think that there is a good possibility that Nikole Hannah-Jones will also win the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.