It’s far worse than I thought. In addition to the many links between the family that owns the New York Times and the Civil War’s Confederacy, new evidence shows that members of the extended family were slaveholders.
Last Sunday, I recounted that Bertha Levy Ochs, the mother of Times patriarch Adolph S. Ochs, supported the South and slavery. She was caught smuggling medicine to Confederates in a baby carriage and her brother Oscar joined the rebel army.
I have since learned that, according to a family history, Oscar Levy fought alongside two Mississippi cousins, meaning at least three members of Bertha’s family fought for secession.
Adolph Ochs’ own “Southern sympathies” were reflected in the content of the Chattanooga Times, the first newspaper he owned, and then the New York Times. The latter published an editorial in 1900 saying the Democratic Party, which Ochs supported, “may justly insist that the evils of negro suffrage were wantonly inflicted on them.”
Six years later, the Times published a glowing profile of Confederate President Jefferson Davis on the 100th anniversary of his birth, calling him “the great Southern leader.”
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10 comments:
We are all slaves to the Rothschild Family who owns the private for-profit Federal Reserve Bank.
Cancel the NYT.
SO, THAT WAS THEN. Move on
Big whoop....we all will be playing one way or another for all this stimulus for decades. Any "payback" for past indiscretions should go towards part of the bill we ALL must pay forward.
Gosh darn bitchin and moaning about the damn past...which NONE of us had anything to do with. That is discrimination with today's society. If we constantly consider that, well then I'm sure each of us would have a legitimate say so how each of us was wronged in life.
Enuf already we need a plan forward or the nation will fail.
Payback my @ss.
You are missing the point
Ditto!!
New York is another prime example of too much media coverage they are looking to point fingers and histories hundreds of years old. But your current Governor and Mayor are going to let NY eventually be burned to the ground. And nothing will change until the city starts to get ready for the Christmas Season and want all the $ they can make. I would suggest everyone avoid NY this Christmas no tourist trade, no record sales nothing and no more media coverage and they will change and realize they might not get back ever what they had.
Guess that was conveniently left out of NYT's 1619 Project slave propaganda piece! Just an unintentional oversight, we're sure.
None of my business what the family did in the past. Same as the good president’s taxes. They are his, none of my business.
ooops.... that little factoid won't wash well. better go get a tide pod kids.
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