Wow. This piece by Armond White may just be the most vicious, hateful and hate-filled review I've ever read. There's no service to the master's house like the intellectualized GOP pretending objectivity.
Oprah Revives the 1619 Project Fabrications nationalreview.com/2023/02/oprah-… 🧵
"This show is for the semi-literate,content-hungry masses who can’t read through to the Times’ true agenda but can be swayed,maybe,by Oprah’s visual divertissements." White (who's Black),tries to reduce the brilliant Nikole Hannah-Jones to "fuschia haired activist" & "crackpot."
"The 1619 Project is sometimes risibly subjective. Hannah-Jones’s voice carries the tone of her Iowa roots, in contrast to her Notre Dame–New York–MacArthur Prize résumé — recalling the Arkansas twang that Hillary Clinton dropped once she reached the national stage." Wow.
White rips Hannah-Jones' complex discourse on reparations with a glib "Is socialism, with its apparatchiks’ dachas on Martha’s Vineyard and in Mendocino, her answer?"
Honestly, stop searching out Black men to attack Black women in service to white supremacy. It's a hideous look.
White calls Hannah-Jones’s structure a "black-Marxist argument. It conforms to the pop sentimentality of Afro-Am-studies curricula." Ron DeSantis will be quoting this tomorrow--this is the intellectual equivalent of that "Black friend" who told him he could use the n word. Nah.
I actually feel nauseous from reading that piece, which is why I had to share excerpts. (I'd have read the whole thing to The Wife so we could scream about it together.) If you're still targeting Nikole Hannah-Jones over CRT,ask yourself why. Seriously--this is some f'd up stuff.
An antidote to the Armond White/NRO piece, by Wesley Lowery.
Nikole Hannah-Jones isn’t done challenging the story of America washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023…
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