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Nikole Hannah-Jones, the racist fabulist behind the corrosively divisive and inaccurate 1619 Project, recently spoke at Washington-Liberty High School in Arlington, Va. For a 45-minute litany of real and imagined grievances, racial victimhood hectoring, and fake history, Hannah-Jones raked in a cool $40,000. At least that’s what was likely the content of Hannah-Jones’ speech, but we will never know for sure, as she forbade recording of her sage remarks on pain of a $100,000 fine. No one seems to have violated this prohibition, but Hannah-Jones did get her 40 grand. For those of you who were raised on Common Core math, that’s $888.88 per minute. Why didn’t the high school pay Hannah-Jones an even thousand dollars a minute? Systemic racism, natch!
Or maybe not. The Daily Wire reported Thursday that Hannah-Jones’ easy-money windfall at Washington-Liberty High School was even better than her outrageously exorbitant speaker fee, for the high school is “only eight miles from Howard University, where she became a tenured professor with the help of $20 million in donations from the MacArthur, Knight, and Ford foundations.” Yet despite the fact that getting there didn’t require her to take a long flight, check into a hotel, or do much of anything beyond taking a pleasant walk from her office, “including travel time, that fee amounts to approximately $10,000 an hour.” On top of that, “the speech was also an opportunity for Hannah-Jones to sell her book, even as the event implied that it was ‘banned.’”
Banned. Sure, and I’m Barack Obama. Leftists love to posture as victims and to pretend that it’s 1953 and that they’re courageous lone holdouts against crushing conservative conformity, but it isn’t 1953; it’s 2022, and they are the dominant establishment everywhere. If Washington-Liberty High School wants to feature a banned speaker, I hereby volunteer to come speak for 45 minutes about why Islamic jihad is a much greater terrorism threat than “white supremacy.” Heck, nobody even has to pay me $40,000. I’ll come at my own expense, completely gratis. What’s that now about “banned speakers” again?
Nikole Hannah-Jones, despite the fact that she has the dough rolling in from right-thinking Leftists everywhere, did not offer to speak free of charge. On the contrary, her astronomical fee caused a bit of friction amid the race victimhood lovefest. The Daily Wire notes that although it was held at the high school, “the talk was a program of the Arlington Public Library, and the cost was so enormous that it spurred tension between the library and the Friends of Arlington Library, a nonprofit that raises money to fund library activities including author events.” That’s good to know; it’s reassuring that at least some people involved in this remain at least marginally sane.
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Raja says
There is freedom in oppression, and this is a good making business just like that of Palestine Liberation org.
gravenimage says
Yep.
Wellington says
She’s a race hustler par excellence and anyone or any organization sucking up to this race hustler is foolish and shameful. Optimally, she would be dismissed by virtually all. As they say in West Virginia, just pay her never no mind.
Keith O says
I went down the rabbit hole and did as much due diligence as I could on the 1619 project.
Holy crap, this is one dangerous female. Her intent appears to be to divide the country and has absolutely no qualms about inventing history to do so.
From what I could ascertain she is so bad that in December 2019, she was called out by a group of five historians in a letter that was published in of all places, the New York Times.
For a leftist to have the NY Times tern on them that gives an indication of just how bad they are.
somehistory says
She couldn’t get me to listen if she forked over a million to entice me to hear her. Full of garbage and people pay to hear it. No taste for what is good and truthful, they pay to hear lies.
tim gallagher says
Yes, this scam artist seems to be doing very well in the terrible society that she thinks, in her deluded mind and with the gigantic chip on her shoulder, is so terrible. I can only imagine the complete bullshit that she would spout, but there seem to be plenty of idiots around that actually buy the crap these people come up with. Maybe, in time, people might wake up and her days of scamming people by talking utter bullshit will be over and she might have to go and do an honest day’s work instead of being paid to talk complete garbage.
gravenimage says
Black Woman Is So Oppressed She Gets $40,000 for One 45-Minute Speech
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How does a high school–or a library–have this kind of money? And if they do, why are thye spending it on this ugly claptrap?
Scotsman48 says
As a mature European American Heterosexual Male I wants me some of that oppressed female black privilege as this old white privilege stuff just aint cutting it and I have some Black Shoe Polish close by and so I could do an Amos and Andy Skit for less than 40 Grand.
Perhaps she is either ”servicing” Al Sharpton or ”servicing” the founders of black LIES matter.