Though 1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah-Jones is frequently praised in “woke” circles like newsrooms, academia, and Hollywood where inconvenient facts about our nation’s history don’t matter, thankfully there are sane people out there who are not afraid to call her out when she pushes even further left.
Such was the case over the weekend. Hannah-Jones decided to weigh in with racially-charged, predictable hot takes on the Ukraine/Russia conflict. In several tweets, she alleged that the media was saturating the airwaves with coverage of Ukraine primarily because most of the people there were white and allegedly were not impoverished:
Later, she declared that not only was Europe not really a continent but instead “a geopolitical fiction to separate it from Asia and so the alarm about a European, or civilized, or First World nation being invaded is a dog whistle to tell us we should care because they are like us”:
She tacked on a “to be clear” tweet a couple of minutes later in an attempt to clarify she didn’t mean that we shouldn’t care about Ukraine:
The unintentionally hilarious thing about Hannah-Jones’s rant was the fact that when she started it, an account with 20 followers took her on – and won the argument:
Judging by some of Parker’s other tweets, he’s actually a pretty devoted leftist. Nevertheless, he started off the day with 20 followers and now has nearly 1,700 because of his back and forth with the woman who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her fraudulent rewriting of American history.
As for Hannah-Jones’s claim that the media and via extension their audiences only care about the war in Ukraine because those being attacked are white, it completely ignores other acts of war the media have devoted a considerable amount of time covering, like in Afghanistan which – last I checked – was not a country comprised mostly of white folks. Back in August and September, we got wall-to-wall coverage of President Biden’s botched handling of the withdrawal there, which saw Taliban terrorists retake the country by brutal force and American Marines and scores of native Afghans murdered.
Despite being debunked, Hannah-Jones will, unfortunately, carry on doing Hannah-Jones things, which means spot-on observations like the one below will continue to be made:
The man has a point.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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