Comments on: Nikole Hannah-Jones wants both races to be equally miserable

By: Faith2014

Faith2014 — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 17:10:56 +0000

TJ – it looks like we’re 4th in expenditures, at least in 2017.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd

But I think your point still stands.

By: Gringo

Gringo — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 17:38:50 +0000

Regarding Art Deco’s pointing out that Nicole Hannah-Jones has a white grandmother, here is an article about that, but for mothers instead of grandmothers. I haven’t read it yet.

https://www.unz.com/article/my-bob-bob-why-black-leftists-often-have-white-mothers/

By: Gringo

Gringo — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 17:31:19 +0000

Neo:
It seems that Hannah-Jones would have had to flee Cuba, or be imprisoned, for speaking the way she does. Here she’s rewarded for it. But like the good leftist that she is, she nevertheless praises Cuba for its racial policies.

For example, Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin lived in Cuba for 4 years, but got booted out for her big mouth. (While lefties in the US love “speaking truth to power,” that POV doesn’t go over too well with the rulers of Socialist paradises.) While fellow radical Margaret Randall didn’t get booted out of Cuba, her decade in Cuba came to a bad end circa 1980, when due to internal politics (not, as far as I can tell, for a big mouth), she was not permitted to go to her job- though she still got paid. Margaret Randall went on to Sandinista Nicaragua, but eventually returned to the US.

By: Gringo

Gringo — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 16:31:04 +0000

Neo quoting:
In 2019, around the original launch of the 1619 Project, Hannah-Jones identified Cuba as a model for racial equality.

Johann Amadeus Metesky:
My question for Hannah-Jones is when was the last time she saw a Cuban official who was black?

Johann beat me to it. Neo also beat me to it, by mentioning Carlos Moore, who knows a bit more about being black in Cuba than Ms. Nikole Hannah-Jones does. I read Moore’s book, but years ago.

It is a sad state of affairs when an ignoramus like Ms. Nikole Hannah-Jones gets so much attention.

By: Johann Amadeus Metesky

Johann Amadeus Metesky — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 05:52:49 +0000

My question for Hannah-Jones is when was the last time she saw a Cuban official who was black?

By: Boatbuilder

Boatbuilder — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 02:22:22 +0000

Art Deco : a good question. And a sad commentary.
Maggie T was a wonder. We need someone like her right now.

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 02:22:22 +0000

The business of politics is not abstruse theorizing and it’s not moral preening. The business of politics is making Nikole Hannah-Jones feel especially miserable. Trust me, the more miserable she feels, the better you will feel. Embrace the Dark Side 🙂

By: Aggie

Aggie — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 02:19:17 +0000

Engaging in any kind of debate with people of Hannah-Jones’ ilk is an exercise in futility. She is the embodiment of uniformed, Bad-Faith political discourse. No effective rebuttal is even possible with such people – they will simply move on to newly-shifted premises once they perceive a confrontation. AS others have pointed out (I think correctly), theirs is a successful grift, and grifts can’t survive in the harsh light of classical debate.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 01:17:23 +0000

There you go again Robert, confusing the issue with facts…;-)

By: Robert Shotzberger

Robert Shotzberger — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 00:20:33 +0000

The problem for the loonie left is that their argument for women earning less makes no sense. If it were true that a woman is worth less, than any business with a brain would hire more women because they would have to pay them less.