Cal Thomas explains how the New York Times is trying to rewrite history to fit its biases:
Remember the controversy in 2012 when President Barack Obama said, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
In context, the president was trying to make the point that in addition to our own hard work, others contributed to whatever level of success we have attained. The president suggested no one achieves success on his or her own. Republicans took his words as just another indicator that Democrats want more government control over our lives and businesses.
The New York Times appears to have endorsed Obama’s view and gone a step further.
The newspaper’s executive editor, Dean Baquet, recently called a staff meeting to announce “The 1619 Project,” named for the year the first African slaves were brought to Virginia. Someone recorded the session and leaked it to Slate, which published a transcript. The Washington Examiner reported on it.
“The goal of the 1619 Project,” says a statement from the newspaper, “is to reframe American history.”
More like rewrite it. This is the stuff of totalitarian regimes where the media serve as a propaganda organ for the state, in this case the surging left wing of the Democratic Party.
No more America beginning with the Declaration of Independence, The Federalist Papers, and the Constitution. Africans had no say in these, though Jefferson’s brilliant line about all of us being created equal would resound nearly a century later in a Civil War that led to the freeing of slaves and the long road to achieving Jefferson’s noble statement.
Read more at the Daily Signal: The New York Times Is Trying to Rewrite History to Fit Its Biases
Image credit: The Daily Signal… Pictured: A George Washington sculpture is seen on display in Signers Hall at Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center on July 1, 2003. (Photo: William Thomas Cain/Getty Images)
