We told you last week that after an outcry from the leftist Twitter mob, UNC reversed its decision and decided to offer Nikole Hannah-Jones a tenured position. Well now it’s being reported that she turned them down:
FOX NEWS – Left-wing journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones announced Tuesday that she has turned down the offer of tenure at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and suggested racism played in a role in UNC’s dragging its feet on her future at the school.
She will instead be the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Reporting at Howard University, she told “CBS This Morning” anchor Gayle King.
UNC had initially denied Hannah-Jones tenure following backlash to her signature work, the 1619 Project, which examines the long-term consequences of slavery in America. Though it won a Pulitzer Prize, it has been criticized by historians for inaccuracies, and Republican lawmakers have opposed the Biden administration’s efforts to incorporate Jones’ work in its education agenda.
She said last month that she would not become a faculty member at the UNC unless she was guaranteed tenure. The faculty later voted 9-4 in her favor.
Hannah-Jones said on CBS’ “This Morning” it was a “tough decision,” but one she felt she had to make because of “what it took” to get there.
Hannah-Jones suggested that the color of her skin had something to do with the faculty’s decision, considering the history of tenure at the institution.
“Because look what it took to get tenure,” she said. “This was a position that since the 1980s came with tenure. The Knight chairs are designed for professional journalists when working in the filed, to come into academia. Every other chair before me, who also happened to be white, received that position with tenure.”
“To only have that vote occur on the last possible day, at the last possible moment after threat of legal action, after weeks of protests, after it became a national scandal, it’s just not something I want anymore,” she added.
This is why you should never kowtow to the woke mob, because UNC now ends up with egg all over its face. It would have been better for them to keep their earlier position instead of bowing to kiss her ring. After all, she’s a fake historian and her 1619 project does nothing but spread hate for this country, as it labels our very founding as evil. And they were right in the beginning to not offer her tenure.