Only one more day in Black History Month, so anyone with any hot takes had better get them in quickly. There’s a heavy focus on Florida this Black History Month, where books that even mention black people are illegal. 1619 Project architect Nikole Hannah-Jones on Sunday informed us why black history in particular was being targeted by people like Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Someone asked me why is Black history, specifically, being targeted. I said it's because our history has always been political *by definition*: Our very presence on these lands is the greatest rebuke to the narrative of American exceptionalism. We give lie to the lie.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) February 26, 2023
Blk history is the most inconvenient to American mythology. In a country founded on ideals of liberty, we were enslaved. The greatest democracy in the world violently suppressed democracy amongst its Black citizens for 100 years after the end of slavery. These truths are hard.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) February 26, 2023
It's easier to marginalize, minimize or suppress these truths than deal honestly with them and their modern-day consequences. That's why we know these efforts in Florida and elsewhere have never been about accurate history, but rather the suppression of it.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) February 26, 2023
Xi Van Fleet, who lived through Mao’s cultural revolution in China and eventually found freedom and success in America, weighed in:
Yourself and I, an immigrant from China with 200 borrowed dollars in my pocket when I arrived more than 30 yrs ago, are the proof of American Exceptionalism.
— Xi Van Fleet (@XVanFleet) February 26, 2023
How so. Be specific.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) February 26, 2023
Use puppets and crayons, please.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, the architect of the New York Times 1619 Project, lectured a Chinese woman who survived Mao Zedong's cultural revolution on the subject of oppression. | @CarolineDowney_ https://t.co/XjY8w6tsXY
— National Review (@NRO) February 27, 2023
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Caroline Downey reports for National Review:
Van Fleet pointed out that the natural-rights doctrine, “unique to American founding,” paved the way for the abolition of slavery, Jim Crow, and anti-Chinese laws. The lack of such liberal principles in her home country of China allows atrocities such as slavery to persist to this day, she pointed out. (The Chinese Communist Party is currently perpetrating egregious human-rights abuses against the Uighur Muslim minority in Xinjiang, China.)
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Hannah-Jones then directed Van Fleet to educate herself on America’s legacy by watching “episode five of the #1619hulu series called FEAR.”
“I’m afraid your vision of America does not match the reality,” she scorned.
Black history is being so repressed in the United States that Hannah-Jones told Van Fleet to watch the mini-series on Hulu based on her factually challenged yet Pulitzer Prize-winning 1619 Project.
“Please watch my propaganda piece”. My favorite episode is where you complained that your dad’s house (which he owned) wasn’t good enough and that he had to work manual labor as if those are unique experiences to black Americans.
— Steve Austin (@saustin_moco) February 26, 2023
This is literally hilarious pic.twitter.com/MhYSiZij9t
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) February 27, 2023
I love how people will speak in broad, unfalsifiable generalities and then demand specificity from those who rebut them.
— Gruntled (@NeverTr74704466) February 27, 2023
Nikole's personal success is proof that people like her are not allowed to succeed in America.
What she meant to say.
— Dr. Polite Memes, PhD. 🚫 (@Meme_Behavior) February 27, 2023
The sad part is that she probably believes her own words. Victimhood brainwashing is a powerful thing.
— N (@NNk1776) February 27, 2023
She is passionately committed to not be exceptional. Gotta give credit where it’s due
— Chief Iron Principles (@Connecticotian) February 27, 2023
Of course it’s hilarious. Look who tweeted it. One of the three top race grifters, with Kendi and DiAngelo being the other two.
— Rob B (@ForzaJuve2100) February 27, 2023
The impact legal immigrants have on the preservation of America is going to be incredible to witness. 🇺🇸
— Kaitlynn Baker (@KaitlynnBaker8) February 27, 2023
He’s spot on. In no other country would @nhannahjones be famous
— Bucket Brigade (@bucketbrigadeOS) February 27, 2023
That an intellectual low-rent like Ida Bae can grab a big megaphone is evidence of how wrong American exceptionalism can veer.
— C.W. Morgan ⭕ (@CWMorgan1000) February 27, 2023
How is she so dumb
— Maxwell Meyer (@mualphaxi) February 27, 2023
Wherein Niclown Hannah-Jones tells @XVanFleet, a survivor of the Cultural Revolution, she doesn't know anything about oppression and instructs her to go watch the preposterous 1619 Project "documentary." 🤡🤡🤡 pic.twitter.com/s0diNmFV1Y
— James Lindsay, obvious coward (@ConceptualJames) February 26, 2023
We weren't gifted freedom. We fought and died for it against our own country and our own countrymen. And our sacrifice expanded rights for all Americans, including you. I'm done here. Have a good day.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) February 26, 2023
The freedom has been fought for and defended by generations of Americans including black Americans.
But not you. You are fighting to tear down this country by rewriting history.
I am not done with you. I will continue to expose the lies of your 1619 Project!
— Xi Van Fleet (@XVanFleet) February 26, 2023
Owned.
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