In 2019, the New York Times gave the star treatment to Nikole Hannah-Jones’s “The 1619 Project,” which averred that America is a misbegotten nation because it had its origins in slavery and the Founders failed to abolish slavery as they cobbled together their fragile coalition. For that reason, everything that America has ever done or achieved, every beneficence of blood and treasure it has extended to the world, every benefit to humanity it has created (including a citizenry with a hugely high standard of living and a planet of people desperate to cross our border), is irrelevant: America is tainted, irreparably and forever.
The 1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones: America’s very existence is a ‘crime’
