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It's noted on the Pulitzer page for the award (https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/nikole-hannah-jones-new-york-times https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/nikole-hanna

by wahern 7y ago

It's noted on the Pulitzer page for the award (https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/nikole-hannah-jones-new-york-times https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/nikole-hannah-jones-new-yor...) that the NY Times issued a correction to the original essay: "A passage has been adjusted to make clear that a desire to protect slavery was among the motivations of some of the colonists who fought the Revolutionary War, not among the motivations of all of them." See https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/magazine/an-update-to-the-1619-project.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/magazine/an-update-to-the... ("Today we are making a clarification to a passage in an essay from The 1619 Project that has sparked a great deal of online debate.")

newacct583 7y ago
Which sounds about right to me. This wasn't ever that controversial a suggestion, nor is it unique to this essay. But it was an easy target for people who wanted to oppose the project as a whole. So we get comments like the grandparent, who apparently views this one idea as the "core" of a project that literally covers four hundred years of history. It's tiresome. I mean, I read this stuff when it was published (it was really great, and absolutely Pulitzer-worthy), and I swear when the knives started flying I had to go back and find the passages in question because frankly I didn't even remember them. It's also really upsetting that still, in the year 2020, the idea that black folks experience endemic racism is a partisan idea that has to be opposed by half the population as a matter of faith.
- seibelj 7y ago
  The idea being pushed is that America was founded centrally on racism, is still racist, and will forever be racist. I disagree entirely.
  - newacct583 7y ago
    That's an extraordinarily maximalist interpretation of what to me was a relatively nuanced take on a complicated subject. I mean, racial politics has absolutely been one critical driving factor in American history. Surely you'd agree with that part? So maybe grant that framing and re-read it? I think you'd be surprised.

by wahern 7y ago

newacct583 7y ago

Which sounds about right to me. This wasn't ever that controversial a suggestion, nor is it unique to this essay. But it was an easy target for people who wanted to oppose the project as a whole. So we get comments like the grandparent, who apparently views this one idea as the "core" of a project that literally covers four hundred years of history. It's tiresome. I mean, I read this stuff when it was published (it was really great, and absolutely Pulitzer-worthy), and I swear when the knives started flying I had to go back and find the passages in question because frankly I didn't even remember them. It's also really upsetting that still, in the year 2020, the idea that black folks experience endemic racism is a partisan idea that has to be opposed by half the population as a matter of faith.

seibelj 7y ago
The idea being pushed is that America was founded centrally on racism, is still racist, and will forever be racist. I disagree entirely.
- newacct583 7y ago
  That's an extraordinarily maximalist interpretation of what to me was a relatively nuanced take on a complicated subject. I mean, racial politics has absolutely been one critical driving factor in American history. Surely you'd agree with that part? So maybe grant that framing and re-read it? I think you'd be surprised.