I ain't never see'd hair dat color befo'....
Posted on 05/22/2021 7:35:01 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Cancel culture has come back to campus! Cockburn was dismayed to learn that 1619 Project curator Nikole Hannah-Jones had been denied tenure at the University of North Carolina.
Hannah-Jones had been announced as a Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism last month. Her New York Times magazine supplement the 1619 Project had earned Hannah-Jones a Pulitzer Prize for commentary, despite garnering criticism for playing fast and loose with the facts of America’s founding from Bret Stephens in the New York Times Opinion section and several history professors in the New York Times Letters page. Who doesn’t love a heterodox publication?
You’d have thought that with her scant attention to detail, short temper and proneness to error, NHJ would be perfectly well-suited to a career in academia. Fortunately UNC agrees — they’ve offered her a non-tenured teaching position instead.
But academics at the college have written an angry letter protesting that NHJ was denied tenure. ‘The national politicization of universities, journalism and the social sciences undermines the integrity of and academic freedom within the whole University of North Carolina system,’ they warn. Cockburn agrees: we must consider the integrity of the school that made up fake classes to boost the GPAs of its student-athletes! (Were there ever any meaningful consequences for that, by the way?)
So what might Hannah-Jones be like as a professor? Cockburn has some insight there too: last summer his intern wrote a story about NHJ plugging products in a Glamour interview, in what appeared to be a violation of the New York Times‘s ethics handbook. The intern, then a college student, emailed Ms Hannah-Jones to ask what was going on. Obviously she responded in a calm and proportionate manner...
I ain't never see'd hair dat color befo'....
Fit right in with yesterdays cultural revolution mass murderers.
Thank the RINOs on the UNC BoD!
Academia, while always leftist, have shifted even further left into intolerance and bigotry.
Confirms my Tagline.
Well, there’s that courtroom version of The Joker.
But then, he was out of his bloomin’ mind.
Is that her natural hair color?
I remember someone vaguely like her only much heavier. I was exiting a public swimming pool when this huge woman grabbed me and pulled me up. She started beating me on my chest and mouth breathing on me. I finally was able to say “I’m not drowning”. She said “yes you are, you’re just asymptomatic”. I finally broke free and never returned. I was so traumatized, I avoided public swimming pools for a long time.
Is that not cultural appropriation for a black woman to dye her hair red which is a Caucasian color?
Wonder how she would react if someone were to tell her such?
Sideshow Bob lives!
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