The Ten Craziest Claims From Hulu’s “1619 Project” Series

All six episodes The 1619 Project series are out on Hulu, and some of the claims and statements made in the show’s episodes are so ridiculous and offensive they will probably leave your head-spinning.

Activist “journalist” Nikole Hannah-Jones’ along with Oprah Winfrey, who served as an executive producer, and some handpicked historians and commentators brought Hannah-Jones’ revisionist Histories to the screen and it’s just as bad, if not worse, than her original writings of The 1619 Project These were published by The New York Times Magazine in August 2019.

Below are some of the most outrageous claims (in no particular order). 

In episode four, “Capitalism,” Hannah-Jones speaks with Derrick Palmer, an ex-Amazon worker and Caitlin Rosenthal (a historian), who helped her to weave a story about how working on Amazon’s assembly line is like picking cotton in a slave labor camp. I don’t lie. 

Palmer: If you’re on the Amazon website, you put the item in your cart and boom, it literally pops up on your screen as a picker. When you’re looking at the screen it has something called tag time–– how long it takes you to scan this item. When you’re looking at this tag time for the entire shift and you have to keep it at  seven seconds. In the end, 4,000 items are picked every day. Even 5,000 items can be picked in a 10-hour shift.

Hannah-Jones: Enslavers not only kept track of the productivity and whereabouts of their slaves, but they also recorded the monetary value assigned to each individual. This tracking shows the value at the beginning and the end of each year. It looks like many of these have gone up.

Rosenthal: So for example here, we have John who is age 70 –– at the beginning of the year, $50 dollars and at the end of the year $75 dollars. This is a sign that the market is growing overall.

Although it is hard work, an assembly line job is not easy. However, comparing it to slavery is absurd and only masks the real horrors. 

Hannah Jones interviews Hannah in the same episode “historian” Robin D.G. Kelley, who makes the argument that not all people are equal “exploited equally” under capitalism. Capitalism is also racist. 

Hannah-Jones: You stated that capitalism is built through differences. What does that mean?

Kelley: This means that the value and compensation of people is affected by their race, gender, and age.

Hannah-Jones: Capitalism is intended to exploit labor within human beings. However, not all people are equally exploited.

Kelley: Right.

Hannah-Jones: This and other people call it racial capitalism. This is what the term means to people who may not have heard it before.

Kelley: Racial capitalism is capitalism, it’s one in the same. It means that there’s no such thing as a race neutral capitalism in the united states. It just doesn’t exist.

In episode six, “Justice,” Hannah-Jones sat down with “economist” William Darity Jr. together make the case to reparations.

Darity’s calculations show that black descendants of slaves owe around $14 trillion in total debt. And apparently that would be “letting America off easy.” 

Hannah-Jones: So if we base the case for reparations off of the racial wealth gap, what is the total amount that would be okay?

Darity: If we use the racial wealth gap as our standard, each individual should receive about $350,000 dollars since there are 40 million black-American descendants of slavery out of a total of 45 million black people in the United States. That would mean that the total bill would be approximately $14 trillion dollars now.

Hannah-Jones: Okay. That’s quite a large number.

Darity: Yeah, there are bigger numbers though. It is a large debt. But you know, I’ve seen estimates of the bill that have run as high as $6.2 quadrillion dollars. So yeah, I do think it’s helpful –– $14 trillion might be letting, you know, America off a little bit easier. I mean, pretty much any number you put on. It would be letting America off easy.

Hannah-Jones: Probably.

So who is responsible for all this? Are there any taxes that would be applied to only white Americans? If immigrants arrived in America without any family ties to slave owners, would they be forced to pay reparations 

Hannah-Jones would need to contribute to her fair share, considering that her biological mother was white. 

Although none of this is answered, we learn more about the world. “racist” –– and the list is very long. It also includes health care. 

In episode two, “Race,” Chrissy Sample is a tragic tale about a woman named Chrissy who lost one her twins while pregnant. This tragic death is used to illustrate systemic racism in medicine. All of this was said as fact without any evidence. 

The identity of the alleged racist doctor working in New York City was never revealed. It doesn’t seem like the doctor was fired or investigated for racism or the murder of an unborn child. 

It is hoped that this will be the case. “racist” An operating doctor in the “Big Apple,” Anyone who denies minorities women access to proper healthcare, leading to their death, will be tried to the fullest extent of the law.

It is strange that this story was not followed up. 

Hannah-Jones: The death of Chrissy’s son, whom she and her husband named Apollo cannot be attributed to poverty or poor medical coverage. Chrissy is middle-class and has good health care benefits. Instead, her birthing outcome might be a reflection of the unconscious racial bias that is a part of so many black women’s experiences in this country, Research shows that race or more accurately racism and racial inequality also contribute to higher death rates for black women and their babies. 

Dr. Veronica Gillispie-Bell, MD: The legacy of slavery is so ingrained in our system and we don’t even see it. So if we think about slavery and we think about how the black woman was utilized, she was not allowed to take care of her kids, she was not able to breastfeed her Children. And so what has translated from that today in our biases that black women don’t want to take care of their kids when we have our unconscious bias and our unconscious beliefs that cause us to not listen to black women when they complain.

In episode one “Democracy,” Hannah-Jones tries to argue that white people only believe in democracy as long as “it doesn’t require sharing power with multiracial citizens.”  Again no facts, just more feelings. 

We’ve made tremendous progress toward realizing our democratic ideals, and yet the ongoing fight over voting and elections show that a significant portion of our country still doesn’t believe in democracy, if democracy requires sharing power with multiracial citizens in our multiracial nation. I often think about what it would take to make this country a democracy. I also worry about how the nation will react to what is clearly a democracy crisis. 

The series also delves into ‘voter suppression’ –– which turns to fear-mongering and the spreading of falsehoods about newly passed voting laws in states across the country, which were all introduced to bolster election integrity.

Hannah-Jones: After the 2020 election, the attacks on democracy only intensified.

Senator Chuck Schumer (D.N.Y. This is the most drastic attempt to limit voting rights since the end reconstruction and the start of Jim Crow.

Hannah-Jones: At least 42 restrictive voting laws have been passed in 21 states since 2021. Georgia is one of the most heavily populated states with black residents. The Election Integrity Act was passed by Georgian republicans, which established a number of voting restrictions. After record-breaking mail-in ballot use during the pandemic, the law decreased the number and required identification to allow absentee voters to vote. According to data, black voters wait on average longer to cast their ballot than white voters. However, the law criminalizes giving food or water to anyone waiting to vote. Finally, the law gives anyone the legal right to challenge their fellow citizens’ right to vote. A new hotline was created to receive anonymous tips about voter fraud.

The fact that ‘voter suppression’ Georgia was a myth. “Jim Crow 2.0.” 

In fact, Georgia had seen Record breaking Early turnout in thea>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2022/05/20/georgia-breaks-records-using-law-media-decried-voter-suppression”> elections After the laws had been passed.

However, facts shouldn’t get in the way a compelling story.

Episode five is about refusing to let facts get in our way. “Fear,” the whole episode uses police officers as punching bags while promoting the idea of systemic police racism –– which is obviously a myth. Do there are bad cops who do wrong and commit illegal acts while on duty? Yes. Is the problem widespread? No.

Cecil Hayes, however, said that he was afraid of being murdered by racist officers because he and his family were just walking outside. 

Cecil Hayes Black people value the strength of their devalued family members more than they love them. It’s almost like we love harder because it’s a lot harder for us to be loved. Everytime I leave the house I told my wife, my kids, I love them. They told me they love me because what we do understand is we could walk out this door and never see each other again as a black father. That call is not something you want to receive. I let my kids walk down the street. My kid walked down the street. The police arrived and shot him. I think about that every single day because just looking at all the video, the police don’t shoot once. They won’t shoot twice. 
They unload entire clips and then they look and see what they did and that’s the fear. It’s not just the fear of gunshot, it’s the fear of getting your body obliterating. Everyday is like playing chess. When you leave your house. 

Hannah Jones later takes issue with National Guard deployments to Ferguson, Missouri during 2014’s violent riots over Micheal brown’s death. She didn’t mention the $1.3 Billion dollars. damages caused by the looters rioters. It was not mentioned that minority-owned businesses were not able to rebound after the looters and rioters.  

Hannah-Jones says that America’s music scene has been ruined by white people. White people are accused of stealing and appropriating music from the black communities over many decades. 

Hannah-Jones: Black Americans represent 13% of the total population but are responsible for a huge amount of what we do and how it happens.

Despite white America’s centuries-long effort to take, warp and steal our music. And despite this county’s obsession with racial categorization that has tried to box our creativity in, black Americans have continued to create, reshape and transform American music. Billboards charts have been teamed with soul music, hiphop innovation and other forms of entertainment for many decades. TikTok is often dominated by dance crazes started by black choreography. Jams composed, produced, and performed by black musicians have sustained places and parties that had no black inhabitants for decades. American culture is built on this constant explosion of invention, creativity, intuition, and improvisation. American music is black music.

Louis Armstrong, the King and Queen of Jazz, would roll in his grave if it were revealed how he was presented in the film. The 1619 Project.

He is described by his friends as “a savant”. “sell-out”An, an “Uncle Tom” Because of his popularity in white communities during his career.   

Hannah-Jones: Louie Armstrong is one of the most successful artists, but his success was only temporary. 

Fredara Hadley: Black men often have to find ways to make white audiences feel secure. For Louis Armstrong he’s incredibly talented and he’s able to draw on comedic chops to disarm and so it makes Louis Armstrong more vulnerable to white audiences projections of these minstrel archetypes. 

Hannah-Jones: These depictions of one of our country’s finest artists made him popular with white America but his reputation with black America proved complicated. His reputation as a “sell out” was his legacy throughout his career. He was no longer celebrated as a hero for breaking barriers during the civil rights era. 

Fredara Hadley: I’m not going to claim that’s how Louis Armstrong saw himself, I don’t believe it so. This makes him an easy canvas for white audiences to see the archetypes so prevalent in American society.  

The 1619 Project Had been Debunked completely After its launch, it was criticised for portraying America in a negative light by prominent academics.

However, the majority of mainstream media and many leftists are a href=”https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2023/01/25/abc-praises-history-breaking-1619-project-groundbreaking”>predictably Are still gushing over the divisive material. Shocker! 

You’re the problem if you watched the vitriol being hurled at white Americans and all of the revisionist historical history.

Hannah Jones claims that “backlash” She was only driven against her People who are able to benefit From division. 

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