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What an embarrassment it is for Simpson College to award <\/a>the George Washington Carver Medal to Nikole Hannah-Jones as part of their \u201ccelebration\u201d of the 250th Anniversary of our founding. They also claim she supposedly represents the legacy of George Washington Carver, who is probably spinning in his grave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nikole Hannah-Jones, woke “hero” \\ Photo: Alice Vergueiro\/Abraji<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Her 1619 Project had multiple errors including the absurd proposition, now quietly erased, that the landing of African slaves in America in 1619, and not the Declaration of Independence we are celebrating, marks our \u201ctrue founding\u201d. Other 1619 fantasies included the American Revolution being fought to preserve slavery (when the British didn\u2019t abolish slavery in their American possessions until 50 years after the Revolution) and George Washington only accepting command of the American army after Lord Dunmore announced that the slaves (of Revolutionaries only) would be freed if they fought for the British. Dunmore didn\u2019t declare this policy until months after Washington took command. But why let the facts disrupt a flawed theory?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hannah-Jones also supports paying \u201creparations\u201d to Black people for slavery. As conservative commentator Larry Elder has noted, reparations would take money from people who have never been slaveholders and give it to people who have never been slaves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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George Washington Carver, actual hero<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As for Hannah-Jones\u2019 support of reparations reflecting the legacy of George Washington Carver, who had actually been a slave, I would offer the following quote: \u201cI would never allow anyone to give me money no difference how badly I needed it. I literally wanted to earn my living.\u201d George Washington Carver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald W. Bohlken is a retired Iowa Administrative Law Judge and Attorney who lives in Indianola<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What an embarrassment it is for Simpson College to award the George Washington Carver Medal to Nikole Hannah-Jones as part of their \u201ccelebration\u201d of the 250th Anniversary of our founding. 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