@UNC .@nhannahjones, after successfully intimidating UNC into offering her tenure position, declines position:
“To have that vote occur on the last possible day after threat of legal action, after weeks of protest … it’s just not something that I want anymore."
@UNC@nhannahjones Jones claims she never went public with her spat against UNC’s board of trustees: "I didn’t want this to become a public scandal. I didn’t want to drag my university through the pages of newspapers … This did not become public because of anything that I did."
@UNC@nhannahjones Hannah-Jones on initially being denied tenure: “There was a great deal of political interference by conservatives .. It’s pretty clear my tenure was not taken up b/c of political opposition, because of discriminatory views against my viewpoints, & I believe my race & my gender"
@UNC@nhannahjones .@PressSec on Hannah-Jones courting/rejecting UNC: "I will say that the students at Howard are quite lucky to have her as a professor … But there’s no question there continues to be systemic racism in our country."
@UNC@nhannahjones@PressSec Hannah-Jones: UNC “trying to really silence me [is] part of a wave of these anti-1619 Project, anti-CRT, anti-history bills that are being passed & they’re being passed in the same legislatures that are also passing voter suppression laws. These two things are going hand in hand"
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Not sure why lefties are promoting this clip as Gen. Milley comes across as unprofessional & dogmatically progressive — even repeating the false left-wing talking point that blacks were considered "3/4ths [sic] of a human being" at America’s founding
If this were about becoming better versed on complex subjects, there'd also be suggested reading on the other side of the spectrum (Tom Sowell, Robert Woodson, Abigail Thernstrom, John McWhorter). Instead, look at the books the Navy’s currently promoting: navy.mil/CNO-Profession…
Navy’s suggested reading:
— “How To Be an Anti-Racist”
— “The New Jim Crow”
— David Brooks’ “The Road to Character”
— “No Pity; People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement”
— “Sexual Minorities and Politics”
— “Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women & the Way Forward”
NYT’s @MaraGay: Experts say spiking crime is due to "disruption, trauma, grief, joblessness, homelessness, and just general upheavel that the United States has gone through, particularly communities of color and people living in poverty across the United States."
@MaraGay A reader sends along the following email:
Toobin explains his infamous Zoom call: "I didn’t think I was on the call. I didn’t think other people could see me … I thought that I had turned off the Zoom call. Now, that’s not a defense. This was deeply moronic and indefensible. But I mean, that is part of the story."
Cont’d: "I have spent the seven subsequent months, miserable months in my life, I can certainly confess, trying to be a better person. I mean, in therapy, trying to do some public service, working in a food bank, which I certainly am going to continue to do"
Morning Joe's @JoeNBC mocks the IG report debunking the media's widely circulated claim that U.S. Park Police removed Lafayette Sq. #BLM protesters for a Trump "photo op," claims it didn't debunk the story
@JoeNBC Scarborough: “You talk about a lack of perspective in the panting and the over-reporting here from Trump apologists. It’s laughable on its face. You just need to read the report and read what the IG says and what the IG does not say."
@JoeNBC "There’s a reason they were cleared with the urgency that they were cleared w/ ... They could have actually scheduled repairs on scaffolding at the same time, before knowing, of course, that Donald Trump, who was humiliated after news broke that he scrambled down to the bunker "