CNN, Hannah-Jones Claim Harvard President Is The Victim Of Racism

For her Tuesday present, CNN NewsNight host Abby Phillip welcomed 1619 Mission founder Nikole Hannah-Jones to debate the fallout of Harvard President Claudine Homosexual’s Congressional testimony on campus anti-Semitism. Phillip questioned if racism has something to do with requires Homosexual to resign and Hannah-Jones was greater than keen to say that it was.

Phillip started by nothing “the identical voices who’re your hardest critics are those who’re Claudine Homosexual’s hardest critics and the loudest voices are calling for her ouster.”

She then questioned, “Do you assume that these two issues are associated, this concept of pushing again on range and inclusion in greater schooling and getting the president of Harvard ousted from her place?”

Hannah-Jones was satisfied that they have been, “Oh completely, so that they’re utilizing the guise of pretending that that is about concern over anti-Semitism, which is, in fact, one thing that each one of us needs to be involved about. It’s actually simply additional their propaganda marketing campaign in opposition to, you already know, racial fairness.”

As for the concept that Homosexual is a range rent, Hannah-Jones proclaimed that:

So, when you concentrate on the truth that Harvard, this nation’s oldest college, had a few 370-year specific racial quota of solely hiring white males to be the president, it’s laughable to assume that the primary ever Black lady following that unbroken line of white racial quotas is the one who’s unqualified. I imply, that is sort of the great thing about how racism works. In case you are Black and also you don’t obtain, if you happen to don’t succeed on the highest echelon, it’s since you’re lazy and also you’re not good sufficient. In case you do obtain and also you do succeed and also you do rise to the highest of your occupation, it’s since you didn’t deserve it.

Hannah-Jones continued, “So, as Toni Morrison stated, that is all actually a distraction. Chris Rufo shouldn’t be a severe individual. He’s an individual who has been making an attempt to assault what he calls DEI, however actually any efforts to deal with racial inequality. He has explicitly stated that he does propaganda work. And the truth that we’re all speaking about it signifies that he’s being profitable.”

Rufo has additionally accused Homosexual of plagiarism, however shifting proper alongside Phillip then questioned, “What do you make of the truth that, you already know, there have been all these college presidents who have been criticized. She wasn’t the one one. However the different presidents weren’t criticized as a result of they have been ladies. They have been criticized due to issues that they stated or did. She is being singled out as somebody who is barely surviving due to her race. What did you make of that?”

One of many different two has already resigned and the opposite ought to contemplating she refused to totally self-discipline overseas college students who harassed Jewish college students due to ”visa points.”  Homosexual has obtained a lot of the consideration, nonetheless, as a result of she couldn’t definitively say that calling for Jewish genocide would violate Harvard’s insurance policies in opposition to bullying and harassment and when she tried to scrub up her mess, lamented “I did not convey what’s my reality,” which naturally raises the query about what she would do if any person’s else’s “reality” led them to name for such a genocide.

Hannah-Jones, nonetheless, had one other rationalization, “Nicely, it’s racist. I imply, now we have — nobody has produced a shred of proof that exhibits that the only qualification that President Homosexual had was that she is a Black lady. That’s insulting. It defies logic. And the truth that, of these presidents, who all got here below intense scrutiny, that just one has been known as out as a so-called range or affirmative motion rent simply speaks of a Black lady of this nation have gone by way of traditionally and proceed to undergo each day.”

Quite the opposite, no different black lady has testified in entrance of Congress about the necessity to take into account the “context” of requires genocide in opposition to Jews.

Here’s a transcript for the December 12 present:

CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip

12/12/2023

10:38 PM ET

ABBY PHILLIP: So, Nikole, what do you make of the truth that — this was hanging to me, a few of the similar voices who’re your hardest critics are those who’re Claudine Homosexual’s hardest critics and the loudest voices are calling for her ouster.

Do you assume that these two issues are associated, this concept of pushing again on range and inclusion in greater schooling and getting the president of Harvard ousted from her place?

NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES: Oh completely, so that they’re utilizing the guise of pretending that that is about concern over anti-Semitism, which is, in fact, one thing that each one of us needs to be involved about. It’s actually simply additional their propaganda marketing campaign in opposition to, you already know, racial fairness.

So, when you concentrate on the truth that Harvard, this nation’s oldest college, had a few 370-year specific racial quota of solely hiring white males to be the president, it’s laughable to assume that the primary ever Black lady following that unbroken line of white racial quotas is the one who’s unqualified.

I imply, that is sort of the great thing about how racism works. In case you are Black and also you don’t obtain, if you happen to don’t succeed on the highest echelon, it’s since you’re lazy and also you’re not good sufficient. In case you do obtain and also you do succeed and also you do rise to the highest of your occupation, it’s since you didn’t deserve it.

So, as Toni Morrison stated, that is all actually a distraction. Chris Rufo shouldn’t be a severe individual. He’s an individual who has been making an attempt to assault what he calls DEI, however actually any efforts to deal with racial inequality. He has explicitly stated that he does propaganda work. And the truth that we’re all speaking about it signifies that he’s being profitable.

PHILLIP: What do you make of the truth that, you already know, there have been all these college presidents who have been criticized. She wasn’t the one one. However the different presidents weren’t criticized as a result of they have been ladies. They have been criticized due to issues that they stated or did. She is being singled out as somebody who is barely surviving due to her race. What did you make of that?

HANNAH-JONES: Nicely, it’s racist. I imply, now we have — nobody has produced a shred of proof that exhibits that the only qualification that President Homosexual had was that she is a Black lady. That’s insulting. It defies logic. And the truth that, of these presidents, who all got here below intense scrutiny, that just one has been known as out as a so-called range or affirmative motion rent simply speaks of a Black lady of this nation have gone by way of traditionally and proceed to undergo each day.

She’s clearly certified and actually, I’m perplexed to strive to determine what does race should do with the criticism that she hasn’t dealt with the protests on her campus appropriately. They simply see this as a gap to additional sow racial division and to additional their marketing campaign of making an attempt to assault any efforts round range and anti-racism.