Sep 24, 2026 · 22 min · 7 segments
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It did not go well for Nicole Hannah-Jones or for her daughter.
We'll be talking more about her as we pick through this, but if you're unfamiliar with journalist and pundit Nicole Hannah-Jones, you should change that.
I mean it.
She's a trip.
She's most famous for the 1619 Project, a widely panned alt-history that suggested that the true founding purpose of the United States was the subjugation of black people.
Her work somehow won her a Pulitzer Prize and influenced school curricula all over the country.
Here are just a few other of her greatest hits.
I find it hard to believe that any member of the white race can have the audacity and hypocrisy to call any other culture savage.
The white race is the biggest murderer, rapist, pillager, and thief of the modern world.
The crimes they committed were unnecessarily cruel and can only be described as acts of the devil.
That was from a letter to the editor that she wrote while a student at Notre Dame.
Here's another.
Our democracy's founding ideals were false when they were written.
Black Americans have fought to make them true.
That's from the 1619 Project itself.
Violence is when an agent of the state kneels on a man's neck until all of the life is leached out of his body.
Destroying property which can be replaced is not violence.
And to put those things, to use the same language to describe those two things, I think really it's not moral to do that.
There's a difference between being politically black and being racially black.
I am not defending anyone, but we all know this and should stop pretending that we don't.
Rich white people thinking they are the ones who get to say that society has done enough to mitigate that devastation of 350 years of explicit discrimination against black people is the most American thing of all.
It did not go well for Nicole Hannah-Jones or for her daughter.
We'll be talking more about her as we pick through this, but if you're unfamiliar with journalist and pundit Nicole Hannah-Jones, you should change that.
I mean it.
She's a trip.
She's most famous for the 1619 Project, a widely panned alt-history that suggested that the true founding purpose of the United States was the subjugation of black people.
Her work somehow won her a Pulitzer Prize and influenced school curricula all over the country.
Here are just a few other of her greatest hits.
I find it hard to believe that any member of the white race can have the audacity and hypocrisy to call any other culture savage.
The white race is the biggest murderer, rapist, pillager, and thief of the modern world.
The crimes they committed were unnecessarily cruel and can only be described as acts of the devil.
That was from a letter to the editor that she wrote while a student at Notre Dame.
Here's another.
Our democracy's founding ideals were false when they were written.
Black Americans have fought to make them true.
That's from the 1619 Project itself.
Violence is when an agent of the state kneels on a man's neck until all of the life is leached out of his body.
Destroying property which can be replaced is not violence.
And to put those things, to use the same language to describe those two things, I think really it's not moral to do that.
There's a difference between being politically black and being racially black.
I am not defending anyone, but we all know this and should stop pretending that we don't.
Rich white people thinking they are the ones who get to say that society has done enough to mitigate that devastation of 350 years of explicit discrimination against black people is the most American thing of all.
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