All six episodes of The 1619 Venture collection are out on Hulu, and among the claims and statements made within the present’s episodes are so ridiculous and offensive they are going to in all probability depart your head-spinning.

Activist “journalist” Nikole Hannah-Jones’ together with Oprah Winfrey, who served as an govt producer, and a few handpicked historians and commentators introduced Hannah-Jones’ revisionist historical past to the display screen and it’s simply as unhealthy, if not worse, than her unique writings of The 1619 Venture that had been revealed by The New York Occasions Journal again in August of 2019.

As for the absurd claims, under are probably the most egregious (in no explicit order). 

In episode 4, “Capitalism,” Hannah-Jones interviews former Amazon employee Derrick Palmer and historian Caitlin Rosenthal, who assist her weave collectively a story that working for Amazon on the meeting line is much like choosing cotton in a slave labor camp. I am not kidding. 

Palmer: In case you’re on the Amazon web site, you place the merchandise in your cart and increase, it actually pops up in your display screen as a picker. Once you’re wanting on the display screen it has one thing known as tag time–– how lengthy it takes you to scan this merchandise. Once you’re taking a look at this tag time for all the shift and it’s a must to preserve it at  seven seconds. In the end all through the day 4,000 objects are picked even 5,000 objects in a ten hour shift.

Hannah-Jones: Not solely did enslavers meticulously monitor the whereabouts and productiveness of the enslaved, additionally they tracked the financial worth assessed to every enslaved particular person. And what’s this monitoring right here, it says worth of graduation of the yr and worth on the finish of the yr and it appears like for a lot of of those the worth has gone up.

Rosenthal: So for instance right here, now we have John who’s age 70 –– firstly of the yr, $50 {dollars} and on the finish of the yr $75 {dollars}. This can be a signal the market goes up general.

An meeting line gig is actually robust work, however to match it to slavery is just outrageous and it waters down the true horrors of it. 

On this identical episode, Hannah-Jones interviews “historian” Robin D.G. Kelley, who tries to make the case that not all persons are “exploited equally” below capitalism. In different phrases, capitalism is racist. 

Hannah-Jones: You mentioned that capitalism is structured via distinction, what do you imply by that?

Kelley: It implies that, worth and wages or how persons are compensated is set by variations in race, by gender by age.

Hannah-Jones: So capitalism is designed to take advantage of labor in human beings, however not all persons are exploited equally.

Kelley: Proper.

Hannah-Jones: So that you name this and others name this racial capitalism. Clarify for individuals who have by no means heard that time period earlier than, what it means.

Kelley: Racial capitalism is capitalism, it’s one in the identical. It implies that there’s no such factor as a race impartial capitalism in the us. It simply doesn’t exist.

In episode six, “Justice,” Hannah-Jones sits down with “economist” William Darity Jr. and collectively they make the case for reparations.

Based on Darity’s math, the entire invoice owed to black-American descendants of slaves could be not less than round $14 trillion {dollars}. And apparently that may be “letting America off simple.” 

Hannah-Jones: So if we base the case for reparations off of the racial wealth hole, what’s the complete quantity that may be okay?

Darity: If we use the racial wealth hole as our customary, every particular person ought to obtain about $350,000 {dollars} since there are 40 million black-American descendants of slavery out of a complete of 45 million black folks within the United States. That will imply that the entire invoice could be roughly $14 trillion {dollars} now.

Hannah-Jones: Okay. Yeah, that is a giant quantity.

Darity: Yeah, there are greater numbers although. It’s a large debt. However you realize, I’ve seen estimates of the invoice which have run as excessive as $6.2 quadrillion {dollars}. So yeah, I do assume it is useful –– $14 trillion may be letting, you realize, America off somewhat bit simpler. I imply, just about any quantity you placed on. It will be letting America off simple.

Hannah-Jones: Most likely.

So who’s liable for paying for all this? Would there be a tax on simply white People? Would immigrants residing in America with no household ties to slave homeowners be pressured into paying reparations? 

Would Hannah-Jones, must pay her justifiable share contemplating her organic mom is white? 

None of that’s truly answered on this collection, however we do study much more about what’s “racist” –– and the record could be very lengthy. It even contains well being care. 

In episode two, “Race,” a tragic story is instructed of a girls by the identify of Chrissy Pattern who misplaced one among her twins throughout being pregnant. This unlucky loss of life is used for example of systemic racism in medication. This was all mentioned as if it had been reality, with none legit proof to again up the claims. 

The identify of the alleged racist physician who labored within the New York Metropolis space was by no means shared, and it would not sound just like the physician was ever fired and even investigated for racism or the loss of life of an unborn child. 

One would hope {that a} “racist” physician working within the “Massive Apple,” who’s denying minority girls of correct well being care resulting in deaths, could be prosecuted to the fullest extent.

It is odd that there was no observe as much as this story. 

Hannah-Jones: The loss of life of Chrissy’s son, whom she and her husband named Apollo can’t be attributed to poverty or poor medical protection. Chrissy is a center class mother with good well being care advantages. As an alternative, her birthing consequence may be a mirrored image of the unconscious racial bias that is part of so many black girls’s experiences on this nation, Analysis exhibits that race or extra precisely racism and racial inequality additionally contribute to larger loss of life charges for black girls and their infants. 

Dr. Veronica Gillispie-Bell, MD: The legacy of slavery is so ingrained in our system and we do not even see it. So if we take into consideration slavery and we take into consideration how the black lady was utilized, she was not allowed to handle her youngsters, she was not in a position to breastfeed her Kids. And so what has translated from that at present in our biases that black girls do not wish to handle their youngsters when now we have our unconscious bias and our unconscious beliefs that trigger us to not take heed to black girls once they complain.

In episode one, “Democracy,” Hannah-Jones tries to argue that white folks solely consider in democracy so long as “it doesn’t require sharing energy with multiracial residents.”  Once more no details, simply extra emotions. 

We’ve made great progress towards realizing our democratic beliefs, and but the continued struggle over voting and elections present that a good portion of our nation nonetheless doesn’t consider in democracy, if democracy requires sharing energy with multiracial residents in our multiracial nation. I feel quite a bit about what it could take for a real democracy to take form on this nation, and I fear about how the nation will reply to what’s clearly a democratic disaster. 

The collection additionally delves into ‘voter suppression’ –– which turns to fear-mongering and the spreading of falsehoods about newly handed voting legal guidelines in states throughout the nation, which had been all launched to bolster election integrity.

Hannah-Jones: And the assault on the democratic course of solely escalated within the wake of the 2020 election.

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.): We’re witnessing an try on the best contraction of voting rights because the finish of reconstruction and the start of Jim Crow.

Hannah-Jones: Since 2021 legislation makers have handed not less than 42 restrictive voting legal guidelines in 21 states. And in Georgia one of the crucial closely black states within the nation republicans handed the Election Integrity Act that created a protracted record of voting restrictions. After a pandemic period election noticed the usage of mail in ballots in report numbers, the legislation shrunk the variety of poll drop containers and added ID necessities for absentee voting. Knowledge present black People on common wait longer than white voters to forged their poll and but the legislation criminalizes passing out meals and water to these standing in line to vote. And at last the legislation permits anybody to legally problem the proper of their fellow residents to forged a poll and created a brand new hotline to simply accept nameless tricks to report voter fraud.

There was no point out of the truth that ‘voter suppression’ within the state of Georgia turned out to be fable, not “Jim Crow 2.0.” 

Actually, Georgia had seen report breaking early turnout within the elections after the legal guidelines had been handed.

However why let details get in the best way of a superb narrative?

Talking of not letting details get in the best way, in episode 5, “Worry,” the entire episode makes use of cops as punching baggage whereas selling the thought of systemic police racism –– which is clearly a fable. Are there unhealthy cops who’ve dedicated evil and unlawful acts whereas on the job? Sure. However is the difficulty widespread? No.

However that did not cease Cecil Hayes from saying he fears he or his relations may very well be murdered at anytime by racist cops for merely strolling outdoors. 

Cecil Hayes: Black folks love more durable on the power that had been so devalued. It is nearly like we love more durable as a result of it is quite a bit more durable for us to be cherished. Everytime I depart the home I instructed my spouse, my youngsters, I like them. They instructed me they love me as a result of what we do perceive is we might stroll out this door and by no means see one another once more as a black father. You do not ever wish to get that decision. I let my youngsters stroll down the road. I let my child go over right here and you realize, for no matter purpose the police got here via and killed him. I feel about that each single day as a result of simply taking a look at all of the video, the police do not shoot as soon as. They do not shoot twice. 
They unload whole clips after which they appear and see what they did and that is the concern. It isn’t simply the concern of gunshot, it is the concern of getting your physique obliterating. On a regular basis is like taking part in chess. Once you stroll out the home. 

Later within the episode, Hannah-Jones takes situation with the Nationwide Guard being deployed to Ferguson, Missouri again in 2014 through the violent riots over the deadly taking pictures of Micheal Brown. In fact, she did not trouble to say the $1.3 billion {dollars} of damages prompted by the looters and rioters. And, there was no point out of the minority owned companies that by no means had been in a position to recuperate after.  

As for music in America, properly white folks have ruined that too, in response to Hannah-Jones. White persons are apparently responsible of appropriating and stealing music from the black group spanning a long time. 

Hannah-Jones: Black People make up 13% of the inhabitants but account for immeasurable quantity of what strikes us and the way we transfer.

Regardless of the centuries lengthy effort by white Americas to warp, applicable and steal our music. And regardless of this county’s obsession with racial categorization that has tried to field our creativity in, black People have continued to create, reshape and rework American music. Many years of Billboards charts teamed with soul music and hiphop improvements. Black choreography typically begins the dance crazes that sweep TikTok. Many years of jams written, produced and preformed by black artists sustained events and locations with no black folks in any respect. And this unceasing eruption of ingenuity, invention, instinct, and improvisation constitutes the very core of American tradition. American music is black music.

Louis Armstrong, the King of Jazz could be rolling in his grave if he came upon how he was portrayed within the The 1619 Venture.

He is characterised as a “sell-out”, and an “Uncle Tom” due to his recognition with white communities throughout his profession.   

Hannah-Jones: Artists like Louie Armstrong may very well be profitable, however that success was restricted and conditional. 

Fredara Hadley: Fairly often black males nonetheless need to discover a technique to make white audiences really feel protected. For Louis Armstrong he’s extremely proficient and he’s ready to attract on comedic chops to disarm and so it makes Louis Armstrong extra weak to white audiences projections of those minstrel archetypes. 

Hannah-Jones: These depictions of one among our nation’s best artists made him in style with white America however his status with black America proved difficult. By the civil rights period he was not seen as a hero celebrated for breaking limitations, as an alternative a status as a promote out dogged him for the remainder of his profession. 

Fredara Hadley: I’m not going to say that’s how Louis Armstrong noticed himself, I don’t consider it so. But it surely makes him a canvas onto which white audiences seamlessly and simply see these archetypes which might be so rampant in American society at giant.  

The 1619 Venture had been roundly debunked by famend lecturers after it launched and was criticized by many for casting America in a detrimental gentle.

Though, most within the mainstream media and plenty of leftists predictably are nonetheless gushing over the divisive materials. Shocker! 

And in the event you truly watched and did not benefit from the hours of vitriol spewed at white People and all of the revisionist historical past, properly then you definitely’re the issue.

Based on Hannah-Jones the “backlash” towards her was simply pushed by individuals who profit from division.