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Top Comments - Notebook #80: Never enough... [1]

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Date: 2023-07-07

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I’m sick of this sh*t already.

I’m talking about the type of stuff that The Atlantic’s Jemele Hill’s has been hit with on Twitter thread.

x Oh, I did? Let’s see:



— worked at my high school newspaper

— academic scholarship to MSU

— Majored in journalism

— 5 journalism internships in college

— Worked at three major newspapers as a sports print reporter before I turned 30

— Beat reporter for 6 years

— Covered… https://t.co/MY6wScpjQ1 — Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) July 7, 2023

x Allow me to retort …



Interesting you want to blame me for a narrative white folks created well before affirmative action existed — that Black people aren’t equipped and smart enough to succeed. All we’ve ever done is make more with less and work harder because we know white… https://t.co/Jjfnpd1Ulw — Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) July 7, 2023

Ms. Hill is absolutely correct: white folks questioned the ability of Black people to do high-functioning jobs long before affirmative action programs became a thing in the 1960’s.

This hasn’t just become a fashionable thing. Hell, people questioned whether Frederick Douglass actually wrote his own autobiography even when faced with the man’s obvious brilliance.

As if every white person got into schools and jobs based on an evaluation of their own merits only and not, say, legacy admissions or belonging to the right country club or even belonging to the right white ethnic group (the Irish and police/fire departments, for example) or knowing the right person that could get them an entry level job.

The very fact that Number 45 was even allowed to occupy the presidency in spite of a business acumen that led to god knows how many bankruptcies (and I’m only conjuring up the small stuff) should probably render the judgment of most white people (since “white people” voted in the majority for him, for various reasons) null and void when it comes to such topics.

I hate the fact that Jemele Hill even felt the need to post her resume to these fools.

But hey, it’s hers, she earned that resume and she earned the right to do whatever she wants with it; I’m not mad at her one bit.

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