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Nicole Hannah-Wells, the creator of the “1619 Project”, has got her knickers in a knot because Chinese people were oppressed under Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution. Hannah-Jones, Twitter handle “Ida Bae Wells” got into a tweet spat with Xi Van Fleet, proud naturalized American and survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Is it just me or are naturalized citizens Super Americans? My Syrian neighbor, naturalized more than 25 years ago, is Super American to the bone. Back to the Nicole Hannah-Jones and Xi Van Fleet “Oppression Wars”.
Nicole Hannah-Jones wrote the 1619 Project in collaboration with the New York Times. Among other transgressions, it placed the beginning of the United States to 1619 when the first slaves landed in the Colony of Virginia. Hannah-Jones is such an arrogant writer that she not only tried to rewrite U.S. History, but the history of Great Britain. There is good reason why 1776 is the accepted date for the birth of the United States of America. That doesn’t help Nicole Hannah-Jones grift. The date of conception for the United States isn’t the only rub for Nicole Hannah-Jones. By the way, her Father is Black, and her Mother is White and Czech and English. Colonize much, Miss Nicole? Plus, she is a sloppy historian:
Five historians wrote to The New York Times Magazine to ask the creators of its 1619 Project to issue corrections, including for Hannah-Jones’s assertions on the American Revolution and on Lincoln. The correction request was signed by Victoria Bynum of Texas State University, James M. McPherson and Sean Wilentz of Princeton University, James Oakes of the City University of New York, and Gordon S. Wood of Brown University.[69] Historian Leslie M. Harris, who was consulted for the Project, wrote in Politico that she had warned that the idea that the American Revolution was fought to protect slavery was inaccurate, and that the Times made avoidable mistakes.[45] In the May 2022 issue of the libertarian magazine Reason, reporter Phillip W. Magness criticized the 1619 Project as “junk history.” Magness contrasted the present work of Hannah-Jones with past work at historical understanding of slavery by prominent African-Americans such as Zora Neale Hurston. Magness stated:
Hurston did not aim to bury an ugly past but to search for historical understanding. Her 1927 interview with Cudjoe Lewis, among the last living survivors of the 1860 voyage of the slave ship Clotilda, contains an invaluable eyewitness account of the middle passage as told by one of its victims. Yet Hurston saw only absurdity in trying to find justice by bludgeoning the past for its sins. “While I have a handkerchief over my eyes crying over the landing of the first slaves in 1619,” she continued, “I might miss something swell that is going on in” the present day.[70]
If Nicole Hannah-Jones could admit that things have improved, her grift might go away.
Let us pause to examine the life of Hannah-Jones nemesis, Xi Van Fleet. Xi got a student Visa and left China for the United States at the age of 26. She rose to fame here in the U.S. fighting against CRT (Critical Race Theory) in Loudon, Virginia:
“Growing up in Mao’s China, all of this seems very familiar,” insisted the mom, who finally fled China when she was 26.
“The Communist regime used the same critical theory to divide people. The only difference is they used class instead of race,” she said.She recalled seeing “students and teachers turn against each other,” and school names being changed “to be politically correct” as they were “taught to denounce our heritage.”
“The Red Guards destroyed anything that is not Communist — statues, books and anything else,” she said.
“We were also encouraged to report on each other, just like the Student Equity Ambassador program and the bias reporting system,” she said of systems that other parents have sued over.
Miss Hannah-Jones is completely dismissive of an Asian difficulties. Unless you faced slavery and discrimination in the United States, it doesn’t count as oppression:
I assume what set Nicole Hannah-Jones off on Xi Van Fleet was a podcast she did on the Marxist take over of U.S. school libraries:
Set her off it did. With this first set of tweets Nicole Hannah-Jones threw down the gauntlet:
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
Sorry, but your Asian suffering is not Black suffering:
Natural rights is unique to American founding. Bc of it we were able to abolish slavery, Jim Crow, anti-Chinese laws … to allow individuals to succeed. What is not unique to America is slavery, which still exists today. Ppl fighting for human rights in China are jailed by CCP.
— Xi Van Fleet (@XVanFleet) February 26, 2023
Mine is not a “vision”. Mine is “lived experience” under the enslavement of communism, freedom in America, and the current Woke Revolution aiming to undo America.
Black Americans are enslaved no more thanks to the persevering principles and humanity of this country.
— Xi Van Fleet (@XVanFleet) February 26, 2023
The problem is Miss Nicole Hannah-Jones cannot give up her grift suffering. It’s all she’s got. That and her American privilege. Well, and her lack of knowledge about history. In other words, she doesn’t know ANYTHING. The history of the world is suffering and slavery. For China, under Mao, between 40 and 80 million people were killed. Life is still cheap there. Ask the Uighurs. Before anyone sits down to watch the 1619 project, study Mao and check your privilege.
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GWB says: Chattel slavery as it was practiced in the British colonies and early America is her binky, and she can’t give it up or the monsters will get her. Those monsters include Loss Of Status, Loss Of Income, Having To Actually Work, and Intellectual Foundations Crumble. The grift is her lifeline to sanity of a sort and to emotional well-being.
But smart parents find a way to get rid of binky – “lose” it or cut it gradually smaller every month. They know their child will never grow up if they don’t.
When countering the lies of the 1619 Project, it is not helpful to accept SOME of its lies, while disputing others.
The first African INDENTURED SERVANTS* landed in the colonies in 1619. The first SLAVE in the colonies was created by judicial fiat, enslaving one of those indentured servants, a man named John Casor. By the way, his owner was a man named Anthony Johnson – a former indentured servant himself, born in what is now Angola.
* That those Africans landed on a Virginia dock were originally destined to be slaves on a SPANISH plantation is irrelevant. The ship transporting them had the bad luck (good luck for the Africans) to encounter a Dutch privateer. Whose captain could not just “do the right thing” and return them to Africa, where they would simply have been resold to the next Spanish or Portuguese ship to come by.
Scott says: SHHH, you’re pointing out the FACT that all slaves transported across the Atlantic by white slavers were SOLD to them by BLACK slavers in Africa…. and that just does NOT fit the narrative.
Ooh, and Hannah Jones is an ignorant racist jackass… prove me wrong
It is ironic that that people like Nicole Hannah-Wells are pushing such a divisive narrative. They are hurting the people they claim to care about more than they are hurting anyone else. They only suitable word to describe such people is “hypocrite.” It is people like Nicole Hannah-Wells, because they support public schools that focus more on political indoctrination than they do providing students with a good education, who are holding back blacks.
Sadly, the Nicole Hannah-Wells of the world have been so successful in their grift they that they are fouling up even our best public schools. If we want to save our children’s future, we have to fight nonsense like CRT tooth and nail.
Zarba says: You’re under the mistaken impression that she cares about who she’s hurting.
Cameron says: Next up, Nicole is going to argue that Xi did not live under “real” communism.
Rick says: I don’t think Jones is a grifter (although she can sometimes make bank). She is, as others like James Lindsay and Karlyn Borysenko have shown, an ideologue spreading Marxism. Socialists/Marxists have four chief goals, one of which is to disrupt and tear down society. That’s what motivates Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project. Jones must defend The Narrative(tm) at all costs, because she absolutely must impugn American society as inherent, irredeemably evil, she cannot tolerate any suggestion this country is better or exceptional.
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