Abraham Lincoln statues

[Rob Wick]

I think it's rich that two white men feel comfortable saying that a woman of color is (in Gene's viewpoint) a)acting irresponsibly and (in David's viewpoint) b) (and more patently offensive) is a liar. Both reactions go far toward ratifying the central claim of the project, i.e., that white America will never understand how African-Americans see the history of this country.

Whether or not one believes that Hannah Nikole-Jones is acting irresponsibly is really irrelevant to me. That's a matter of opinion (which I disagree with), but one could accept the premise without necessarily seeing any nefarious underlying point of view.

However, I take especial exception to calling her a liar. David, just because you, in your fevered-dream attempts to sanctify Lincoln, don't like what she writes, then she is purposefully not telling the truth. That speaks volumes about you more than it says anything about her.

“There are legitimate critiques that one can engage in discussion with, but for them to just kind of dismiss the entire project in that manner, I thought, was really unwise,” (historian Minisha Snha) told the Atlantic. “It was a worthy thing to actually shine a light on a subject that the average person on the street doesn't know much about.”

That is a reasonable critique of the project. Yours, David, is offensive and deserves to be ignored.

Best
Rob