Thread by @rudepundit

Hmm. @nhannahjones has an MA and a Pulitzer and is a MacArthur Fellow. UNC hired as a Distinguished Professor Daniel Wallace, who is a best-selling author but only has a BA and most definitely isn't from a "traditional academic-type background," but he's white.

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1395524762101821440

UNC also hired Alan Shapiro as a Distinguished Professor. He also only has a BA but is an award-winning poet. Still, not "traditional" blah, blah, blah, which generally means "PhD" or MFA. And, yeah, he's white.

In the UNC Journalism School, Chad Heartwood is an award-winning documentarian who only has an MA. And is white.

Steven King is a UNC associate professor who has an MA and was an Emmy-winning video-journalist prior to being hired. Again, not "traditional" or "academic," but white.

Susan King is the Dean of the UNC Hussman School of Journalism. She has an MA and was a journalist prior to being hired by UNC, which is not an academic route. But she's white.

It's not just race that was used against Nikole Hannah-Jones. Terence Oliver is Black with an MA and a huge journalism resume. He was hired as a UNC Distinguished Professor in 2010. Of course, he wasn't the subject of a slanderous blast of hysteria by idiot conservatives.

The point here is that the excuse that @nhannahjones doesn't come from a "traditional academic-type background" is a lie. That hasn't mattered to the UNC trustees pretty much ever.

Receipts:
hussman.unc.edu/directory/facu… (and I only got to the O's)
englishcomplit.unc.edu/creative-writi…