2. "If you have to teach Nikole Hannah-Jones, add a section on Zora Neale Hurston" -- teach where? Hurston is mainly taught in English departments, Hannah-Jones would be taught in history & social sciences. Why link the two, except they are both black women?
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3. Some of Hurston's writings on slave testimony & on black folklore is also taught in anthropology in & history but since her work is decades old it would be taught in a very different way than someone synthesizing contemporary research like Hannah-Jones.
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4. Exactly on point, Sullivan is trying to create a divide between Hurston & contemporary liberal and leftist Black thinkers which does not exist.https://twitter.com/EricMGarcia/status/1487169326658555906 …
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5. Here's how Sullivan's little mind worked: "I have Hannah-Jones, so I need to counterpose her with a Black female rightwinger. Who, who? Candice Owens...no that won't work ... Diamond and Silk ... fuck no ... um, let's go with Zora Neale Hurston ... she's dead but whatever."
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6. It's true by the way that Zora Neale Hurston was a Republican but many Black Americans were during her lifetime (1891-1960) when GOP was the less racist of the 2 major parties. She has nothing to do with the scientific racism Sullivan and Charles Murray promote.
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7. And to be clear, Sullivan's line about teaching both Hannah-Jones and Hurston is undermined by just a little push-back from the far-right scare merchant who is promoting the anti-CRT bogeyman.https://twitter.com/StoicalSophist/status/1487171313986793474 …
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Forced out of paywalled garden because no one wanted to pay their anger managers when there’s so many free kooks - he has to outrage on the regular or not even Maher will book him! How wrong do you have to be to trip this cancel thing? Climate? WARS? Torture? Authoritarianism?
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If he thinks that kids are going to get ZNH's anti-New Deal politics out of Their Eyes Were Watching God (which was assigned reading at my public high school 15 yars ago) I think he will be disappointed.
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"have to teach" is a real take-the-mask-off phrase
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Or “put the hood on”
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