The award of a Pulitzer Prize to Nikole Hannah-Jones for her essay in the 1619 Project by the New York Times Magazine is the most recent volley from anti-American forces in a divisive and dangerous culture war that has been waged for decades. I do not fault Hannah-Jones’s intentions. She is the product of a system of higher education in which identity politics and ideological warfare have been deeply entrenched and the founding principles and values of our nation have been demeaned and dismissed. In the environment of this academic arena, she honed the writing skills that have now been used to further a corrupt agenda, and she may be unwittingly used by those who are orchestrating a racial grievance industry, spreading a virus that is eating away at the fabric of our nation.
Tragically, the greatest devastation of the 1619 Project will harm low-income communities and a vulnerable generation of black youths, not conservative scholars, writers, and journalists who spar in the isolated arenas of talk shows and policy debates.
