New York Times to Reinvent History

The New York Times is throwing a lot of dough at keeping America divided. Byron York of the Washington Examiner on the latest stunt from Dean Baquet & Co.

Perhaps when you think of the founding of the United States, you think of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers. Now, the New York Times wants to “reframe” your understanding of the nation’s founding.

In the Times‘ view (which it hopes to make the view of millions of Americans), the country was actually founded in 1619, when the first Africans were brought to North America, to Virginia, to be sold as slaves.

This year marks the 400th anniversary of that event, and the Times has created something called the 1619 Project. This is what the paper hopes the project will accomplish: “It aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.”

As Dean Baquet stated, recently, at an employee town hall: “We’re not just a print newspaper anymore.”

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1:46 pm on August 19, 2019