Disney really wants to sink their brand. This time with their Hulu 1619 project that has already aired part of the six episode arc. As with Nikole Hannah-Jones NY Times 1619 assertions, once again, false history is being peddled.

The House of Mouse is still pushing woke nonsense. Its latest effort? A streaming series from its Hulu subsidiary based on New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones’ poisonous 1619 Project, an error-riddled piece of propaganda that reframes all of American history as an effort to maintain white supremacy.

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Indeed, the biggest lie 1619 tells is right there in its title: the claim that America was truly founded that year, when slaves first reached Jamestown. This is ridiculous on its face.

But don’t take our word for it. The Times memory-holed this idea from its website just in time for Pulitzer season (Hannah-Jones won, of course).

Another false, equally central claim is that the American Revolution was undertaken in large part to keep slavery legal. Leslie M. Harris, a leading black historian of slavery in America, told Hannah-Jones this was false before initial publication, but the “journalist” ignored this debunking and has gone on repeating the claim ever since.

As we’ve written multiple times on this, the American Revolution was NOT fought to preserve slavery. Nor was the country founded on slavery in 1619. But of course, historical facts don’t matter to Nikole Hannah-Jones, Disney, nor producer Oprah Winfrey. 

As even the Washington Post reluctantly notes here, the NY Times had to tweak the inaccuracies made in the 1619 Project. Supposedly only “some” colonists fought to protect slavery. 

“In hindsight, I do wish I had been more careful with the writing of that one paragraph, instead of deploying rhetoric,” Hannah-Jones — who, like many of 1619’s contributors, is a friend and colleague of mine — told me when we spoke recently. “The original essay was not about the American Revolution,” she said, adding that she “didn’t know that that would be such an asset for those who wanted to try to discredit the project.”

Only one problem with that supposed mea culpa. The first episode of the Hulu 1619 project DOUBLES DOWN on the assertion that the Revolution was fought to protect slavery.

Lord Dunmore, who sat out the Revolution on board his ship is a key example. It seems HIS Emancipation Proclamation was the future impetus for Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation years later. Except there was a catch to Lord Dunmore’s. Slaves would ONLY be freed if they fought FOR the British. So, according to Hannah-Jones, that meant the colonists were fighting to keep slavery intact. So, the northern colonists were slavers as well? Not hardly. 

As noted across multiple volumes of history and well-researched books about our Founders, the American Revolution was fought to get rid of “slavery by Parliament.” 

Law after law trumpeted Americans’ legal inferiority to their masters. The Sugar Act of 1764 resulted in British officials confiscating hundreds of American ships, based on mere allegations that the shipowners or captains were involved in smuggling. To retain their ships, Americans had to somehow prove they had never been involved in smuggling — a near-impossible burden.

Britain imposed heavy taxes on imports and issued “writs of assistance” entitling British soldiers to search any home for evidence that tariffs on tea or whiskey had been shirked. Massachusetts lawyer James Otis denounced those writs for conferring “a power that places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer.”

Parliament enacted laws that literally prohibited the colonies (ALL colonies) from trading with any other country, colony, or territory in the world. Colony after colony started fighting back against the British tyranny. Does the 1619 Project address this or even mention that the Fairfax Resolves of 1774 call out Britian’s overreach, including their trafficking in slavery? Nope. 

People are yelling about Governor DeSantis booting woke theory DEI from black history education. Yet, they are all in on the 1619 narrative that got everything wrong at the NY Times, and now Disney’s Hulu project is getting debunked right and left. 

They also falsely inflate the clause about slavery into the entirety of Dunmore's order. In fact, it was a single line (which also pertained to white indentured servants).

Other clauses imposed martial law, land confiscation, and called colonists into British military service. pic.twitter.com/LyxuwS7Nj3

— Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) January 27, 2023

The presentation is almost intentionally imprecise. They dance around the whole "one of the causes" controversy by only focusing on Dunmore, and handwaving aside everything else about the Revolution.

An uninformed viewer would absolutely think that Dunmore was a mass-emancipator

— Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) January 27, 2023

Read the entire thread. 

There is a great deal that we can all learn regarding black history in this country. However, deliberately getting history wrong is a disservice to everyone, especially our kids and young adults. Disney’s 1619 Hulu project is historically inaccurate, and that’s shameful. 

Feature Photo Credit: Original artwork by Victory Girls Darleen Click