UNC Students Protest ‘1619 Project’ Journalist Not Receiving Tenure

UNC-Chapel Hill students and faculty protested the board of trustee's decision to not approve tenure for New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones. Protesters believe Hannah-Jones is being denied tenure due to her work on the ‘1619 Project’ which examined slavery in America.

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[arayabuchichi]

Who immediately went straight to the comment section and not disappointed 😆?

[cameronboden]

You mean being black is not an academic professorial qualification? How disappointing.

[jkim]

Wow. So many protesting. I saw at least 5-6.

[aaronazagoth]

It’s almost as if teaching a history that never happened can get you fired.

[maxrockanski]

Next week join us as we celebrate blacks discovering america...blacks were the first sailors too..blacks invented everything...lol..the history of the future..lol..lol..lol

[arayabuchichi]

The like 👍 to dislike 👎 ratio is very accurate 😆

[stringmonkey]

The faculty who joined the protest, should have their own tenure reviewed. We don't want to promote lies.

[Cornpop]

Well, the 1619 project is false and misleading so good lmao

[snoopsnail]

They literally had to edit out the entire video for this to make sense....minus the 2 seconds of crackhead

[killersquid]

boo whooo for the pour black man dint get his free pass ha ha ha

[White_Owl]

they can barely write 1 sentence. better yet make it look like an adult wrote it.

[ds]

She's not a journalist. She's a PROPAGANDIST.
Good job UNC 👍👏👏

[dimitriisov]

I mean she made false statements and later even admitted to making false statements but I don't know if that qualifies for not receiving tenure.

[stanwashighski]

There was no United States of America in 1619. This was a colony of Great Britain at that time.

[chuimendoza]

Good, enough with reverse racism! And any kind of racism.

[sicsemperevellomortemtyran]

Can't wait for her to talk about the fact the first people trading were fellow black, or the first American owner was black, that people of the M.E. who practice MALSI(say backwards) owned and still own the S word), had a special name for them as well. She's gonna talk about that, right?

[blueape]

If you make people uniform, you can control them. If you teach people to read, and think, and question things, you lose control. So, the best idea is to separate people if you wish to maintain a monetary system. It's called divide and conquer. By dividing people, they're not a threat, you can control them."

[tianxiu]

She still has the supports to finish the book, and she doesn't seem to need that paycheck to get by, so what is the big deal?

[gregoryallen]

what a professional piece of journalism 😐

[nonamegame]

A 56 second video upload with horrible audio. Yeah real smart upload NBC.