If you want to see a masterclass in shameless, truly evil propaganda — I’m talking about jaw-dropping deception, even more flagrant than the George Floyd narrative, that has no purpose other than to cause a race war — then put on your detective hat and look no further than the multiple fake “lynching” stories that are now springing up out of nowhere, just in time for the midterms.
There is a concerted effort to manufacture the idea that white people in America are running around murdering blacks and hanging them from trees. According to the media and the Left, there is a full-on lynching epidemic happening in our country in 2026.
The problem with this claim is that, of course, it’s entirely and obviously untrue. These are comically absurd lies with no basis in reality whatsoever and fall apart after about three and a half seconds of investigation. Yet they’re being repeated by media outlets, as well as “influencers” like Ms. Rachel, who reaches millions of children with parents stupid enough to let them watch the kind of weird brainrot slop that Ms. Rachel churns out with factory-like efficiency.
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Miss Rachel just posted a bizarre video about the Jason Arday suicide, implying that Nolan Wells was murdered by his white friends and that seven other black people have been lynched by white racists this year
Ms Rachel wants to program your kids to hate themselves. https://t.co/CCnpkoGkCr
— Lucky Teter (@TheMagaHulk) August 19, 2026
Source: @TheMagaHulk/X.com
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Ms. Rachel posts vague video of her apparently reading off a screen, talking about black people being lynched & Haitians wearing ankle monitors.
Ms. Rachel has continued to ignore that the lynchings were ruled su*cides or were done by another black person.
What a bizarre video. https://t.co/g3qHS0JQTU
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 22, 2026
Source: @CollinRugg/X.com
Meanwhile, back in reality, no black person has been lynched in this country at any time this century. There has not been a single case. Not one. In fact, if you’re 40 years old or younger, there hasn’t been a single documented black lynching in your entire lifetime. If you’re 50 years old, maybe there was one in your lifetime, and it happened when you were in kindergarten.
These psychotic narratives (which we’ll debunk, piece by piece) are part of a much larger derangement that’s taken hold among a certain political demographic in this country. And it’s getting impossible to ignore. One of the most prominent DEI hires of all time — The New York Times fabulist Nikole Hannah-Jones (who is black) — has just gone public and admitted that she sent her daughter to a failing, mostly black school because she was under the impression that it would be racist to send her daughter to a “privileged,” high-functioning institution with a lot of white people.
Hannah-Jones apparently believed that if she sent her daughter to a subpar black school, everything would be okay because all of the students are really “blank slates” — and all they need is some motivated, committed educators to help them realize their infinite potential. Surprise, surprise — after a few years, her daughter realized that, as a result of her mother’s ideology, her education was an enormous waste of time. Reality, once again, crashed into a Leftist like a freight train. There’s a 5-million-word New York Times article about this whole saga with Jones’ daughter. And still, none of these people are learning any lessons from it.
Before we get into Hannah-Jones and what her pathetic and frankly disturbing op-ed tells us about DEI and the Left in general, let’s investigate a couple of these fake lynchings. We’ll start with the untimely death of 29-year-old Tasia Fortune, a black woman in Mississippi who was found hanging from a tree in the first week of August. Here’s how the Associated Press — probably the biggest news organization on the planet — covered this woman’s death.
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The death of Tasia Fortune, a Black Mississippi woman found hanging from a tree on Aug. 3, has stirred distressing memories of the grim history of lynchings across the U.S. South. https://t.co/sCmPZt6C8K
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 21, 2026
Source: @AP/X.com
In the video, Jones-Smith says Fortune’s death and the other hangings across the South elicit “historically grounded skepticism.”
By “historically grounded skepticism,” she means there is no actual, present-day reason to be skeptical in these actual cases. But there is “historically grounded skepticism.” It’s kind of like when your wife asks if you took the trash out, and you say you did, and then she says, “Are you sure?” and you say, “What do you mean, am I sure? Yes, I took the trash out,” and she says that, well, five Wednesdays ago you said you would take the trash out, but you never did, and we missed trash pickup. That’s a classic woman move that we now can call “historically grounded skepticism.” But at least, in the case of the trash, the history causing the skepticism is only a few weeks old.
In the case of the supposed lynchings, the history is many decades old. In fact, none of the black people pretending to be traumatized by the imagined imagery of a lynching have ever seen a lynching, or known anyone who was lynched, or known anyone who knew anyone who was lynched, or had any firsthand, secondhand, or thirdhand experience or encounters with lynching at all.
So really this is more analogous to your wife accusing you of not taking the trash out not because you forgot to take it out a few weeks ago, but because her friend’s great-great-grandfather forgot to take his trash out in 1947.
This is the way it works now. If you have some historical grievance, and you’re a member of a “marginalized community” — otherwise known as being anything but a white male — you’re allowed to just completely make things up. You get to throw around whatever deranged theory you want, because 150 years ago, your theory might have seemed plausible to someone.
You can make it sound very nefarious that “half a dozen black people” (meaning 6 people) were “found hanged” in the past two years, even though it’s actually very plausible that 6 black people would hang themselves in a country where 50 million black people are living. Indeed, even the phrase “found hanged” implies that they were all hanged by someone else, even though most of these people, according to all available evidence, not to mention basic common sense, hung themselves.
Really, that whole clip is genuinely outrageous. Everyone involved in the production of the video you just saw should be fired, starting with that reporter, a Howard University graduate whose name is Sarah Jones-Smith. This is not simply a bad news report. It’s malicious. It’s deliberately dishonest in every conceivable way. Sarah Jones-Smith is the “engagement editor” at the AP, which means that her job is to get as many social media clicks as possible. And to do that, she omits every relevant detail in this story and strongly implies that Tasia Fortune was lynched.
Here’s what she said: “Although Fortune’s mother, Christy Spivy, doesn’t think her daughter’s death was racially motivated, for many black people, the imagery of a rope and noose evokes the legacy of lynching and vigilante violence against black people in the U.S.” So if you’re a viewer who doesn’t know anything about this case, then you’re led to believe that the mother may be misguided. She merely “thinks” the death wasn’t racially motivated. That’s how it’s presented.
What the AP reporter doesn’t show you is the picture of one of the men who was arrested in connection with the woman’s murder.
51-year-old Jarques Ratliff (Credit: Jackson Police)
There he is. He’s black. He doesn’t exactly fit the description of the typical white supremacist. So the AP just pretends this photo doesn’t exist. They don’t mention anything about this suspect at all, in fact — or his relationship with the victim (which the police called an “association”).
Keep in mind, the AP is a “wire service.” They provide news reports to thousands of news outlets all over the world precisely because they’re supposedly an accurate and reliable source of information. And now they’re going on camera and deliberately trying to stoke racial warfare, in the most obvious way they possibly could. They’ve been doing this for years, in various contexts — with George Floyd, Michael Brown, Russiagate, and so on — but this has to be one of the worst examples ever recorded.
We’re accustomed to all of the relentless propaganda, so we may not appreciate this for just how evil and despicable it is. So I will emphasize the point. They are trying to conjure a lynching epidemic out of whole cloth. It’s unthinkable. I mean, the only thing more egregious and irresponsible than this would be if they, let’s say, invented a totally fake story about churches in Canada committing a genocide against native children and burying them in mass graves, which led directly to dozens of churches being burned down in retaliation. That would be even worse. Thank God things haven’t gotten that bad yet.
In any case, what the AP report is getting at, of course, is that the facts don’t actually matter. It’s sufficient for this woman’s death to “evoke” the history of lynching. If something happens that reminds anyone of “lynching,” then we have to go through the whole “racial reckoning” again. We have to apologize for our whiteness. We have to open our pocketbooks and give these people more money. That’s the idea.
Even putting aside how desperate this strategy is, it doesn’t make any sense historically either. Leaving aside the fact that none of these cases are actually lynchings, the deeper point is that even on a purely historical basis, their lynching narrative makes no sense.
The Tuskegee Institute estimates that more than 1,200 whites were lynched, mostly as a form of frontier justice. That’s around 30% of all recorded lynching victims in this country between 1882 and 1968, which is obviously a significant amount. So this whole attempt to make “lynching” an exclusively anti-black phenomenon is totally wrong, historically. And by the way, the Tuskegee Institute stopped tracking lynchings in the 1960s because no one was doing it anymore.
The other problem with talking about lynching is that, as unpopular as it is to say, a certain sizable portion of the people who were lynched were criminals who deserved it. Yes, many of the victims were targeted for illegitimate reasons. But at the same time, if you committed some heinous crime, particularly in an area of the country where there were no courts, then the options for justice were rather limited. And that goes for white people as well as black people. That’s how they handled train robbers and cop killers and horse thieves. They didn’t get a trial. Everyone knew they did it. So they hanged them on the spot.
Was that a defensible practice? Reasonable minds can disagree. But what you can’t do, if you care at all about historical accuracy, is suggest that lynchings were only ever racist or only ever affected black people — which is what this AP report is doing. And as the report continues, without any evidence whatsoever, it goes on to suggest that various other black people were lynched.
If random politicians or family members say that they don’t believe someone committed suicide, that’s not actually evidence of anything. Politicians have an obvious motive to stoke racial tension. Family members are often in denial about the possibility that a loved one committed suicide. What you need — preferably, before you go on camera and suggest that whites are secretly hanging black people from trees — is actual evidence.
The fact that the manner of someone’s death “reminds you” of something else or “brings to mind” some historical phenomenon does not constitute evidence of anything at all. A couple of months ago there was a fire on a large boat in Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. Someone might say that the boat fire, in a really narrow sense, reminded them of Pearl Harbor. That doesn’t constitute evidence that the Japanese were responsible for it. The Japanese may have caused a lot of boat fires during that one particular incident in 1941, but that doesn’t make it rational or justified to demand apologies from Japan any time a boat catches on fire 80 years after the fact.
Back to the cases at hand. There’s no reason to believe that any of these were actually lynchings. Here’s a report from a local newspaper on Trey Reed, for example, who was mentioned by that AP reporter:
Trey Reed, 21, was discovered hanging from a tree on Sept. 15, 2025, on the Delta State University campus in Cleveland, Mississippi. Days later, the Mississippi State Medical Examiner’s Office announced that his cause of death was hanging, and the manner of death was suicide. … At the time, his family did not believe those results and wanted more answers. They hired civil rights attorney Ben Crump for a private investigation. Crump’s legal team arranged for the Colin Kaepernick “Know Your Rights Camp Autopsy Initiative” to fund Reed’s independent autopsy, and Dr. Matthias Okoye of Nebraska completed it before Reed’s funeral on Sept. 27, 2025. It appears Crump and his team went silent on Reed’s family, whom he vowed to provide clarity and closure regarding their loved one’s death.
So Ben Crump ghosted them after the autopsy. That’s a pretty good sign there’s no case here. So why exactly is the AP suggesting, to this day, that some mysterious white supremacist may have executed this kid? It’s grotesque. Again, all of them should lose their jobs.
And this isn’t the only alleged lynching they’re lying about. Here’s another.
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Notice how she completely glosses over the little detail about how the guy was caught on camera bringing various materials, including a rope, to the site where his body was found. She doesn’t find that to be strange in any way. She thinks when white supremacists are out lynching black people, they make the black people bring their own rope, like it’s a potluck or something. It was a BYOR lynching. They emailed him an invitation and everything.
At the same time — even as she thinks it’s totally unremarkable that the guy was carrying a rope — she makes a big deal about the fact that the police took less than three days to determine it was a suicide.
Apparently, even when someone’s on camera killing himself, there should be a mandatory waiting period before we can say whether he killed himself. We don’t want to rush to any conclusions here. Most of all, we don’t want to provide the evidence-based conclusion before the false narrative has a chance to spread. By the way, the tape is indeed completely fatal to the narrative they’re trying to push, as you’d expect.
So if this is a lynching, we can only conclude that the KKK has been resurrected from the dead and developed some kind of mind-control device, where they convince black people to lynch themselves. It’s diabolical. And not only that — but they’ve also mind-controlled the black politicians who run the town.
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If you look at the comments for any of these videos, you’ll find thousands of black people claiming that the guy was indeed lynched. They’ll say the footage where he’s carrying the rope was generated by AI. They’ll accuse the police (and the local government) of a cover-up. And very often, they’ll encourage each other to carry firearms specifically for the purpose of defending themselves against roaming bands of white supremacists.
They’re living in an alternate reality, and it’s not hard to see why. At the highest levels, media outlets and the education system have repeatedly used false narratives to indoctrinate millions of black people.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, at The New York Times, has played a very large role in this phenomenon. She came up with The 1619 Project, which was actually one of the inspirations for our Real History series at The Daily Wire (along with Ken Burns and his anti-American documentary on the Revolutionary War). We saw what these liars and hacks were doing, and we decided to actually tell the truth about history — unlike Hannah-Jones, who lied about almost everything in The 1619 Project. Her most ridiculous claim was that we fought the Revolution to preserve the institution of slavery. It was absurd — and she won a Pulitzer for it, which tells you how much Pulitzers are worth.
Hannah-Jones barely writes anything anymore — she’s basically an unofficial figurehead now, like the Meghan Markle of journalism, but somehow even more devoid of talent and personality — but she returned this week with an extremely long op-ed in The New York Times Magazine where she writes about her decision to send her daughter to a terrible school in New York. She had the money to send her daughter to a good school, but the good schools, inevitably, don’t have a lot of black students. They were too white and “privileged.”
So she deliberately sentenced her child to languish in a dysfunctional institution that was more likely to make her dumber instead of smarter. All of this to strike a blow against white supremacy. Yes, a black woman was going to make her black daughter dumber in order to score a point against white people. It’s very similar to the strategy, often employed by BLM, which is to burn down their own neighborhoods out of spite against white people who don’t live in those neighborhoods.
Hannah-Jones apparently believed that because she worked at The New York Times, she could single-handedly turn the bad school around. She seemed to believe all the students at this school had extraordinary potential, and that the only thing holding them back was the school leadership — which she could influence, as a high-and-mighty New York Times employee.
Eight years ago, Hannah-Jones made it very clear that, in her view, being a New York Times employee meant that she could fix everything.
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“A NYT reporter in a high-poverty school f-ing changes the school … I can go to that school and say there is a problem and it gets fixed immediately” – Nikole Hannah-Jones https://t.co/Dk7wuIsPEK
— Marc Porter Magee 🎓 (@marcportermagee) September 21, 2026
Source: @marcportermagee/X.com
This was apparently Hannah-Jones’ attitude when she decided to send her child to failing schools. Here’s how she begins her op-ed:
When Najya was entering pre-K, my husband, Faraji, and I decided to send her to the type of school that wealthier families with choices uniformly avoid — one that is low-income and mostly Black. Our decision had been informed by values shaped by my years of reporting on the enduring and too often seemingly hopeless battle for school integration.
So for ideological reasons, she sabotages her kid’s education by her own admission. Of course, when she talks about the “seemingly hopeless battle for school integration,” she’s not clarifying exactly what that “battle” entailed. We did two episodes of our Real History series on the civil rights movement, and we focused extensively on school integration. It was one of the most sinister periods in American history. White students were forced to attend dangerous, dysfunctional black schools, where (in some cases) they were violently attacked because of their skin color. Some of these white students were bused across town for this purpose. Meanwhile, of course, black students were sent into mostly white schools, to disastrous results.
There’s a book — a legitimately banned book — called “Race War in High School” that describes what happened in many of these schools.
The book focuses in particular on a firsthand account of the violence that broke out in a high school in Brooklyn after integration. Whites (including white teachers) were beaten, set on fire, sexually assaulted, stripped, and extorted — and the police didn’t do anything about it, calling it a matter of school discipline.
Schools nationwide suffered similar problems post-integration. It was a travesty, and virtually everyone — including the government — looked the other way. The black students literally got away with murder, in some cases. As a result, to this day, very few people want to send their children to mostly-black schools.
WATCH: The Real History of Civil Rights Part 2: The Looting of America
This is the side of “integration” that you’re never told about. You never hear about the whites who were terrorized by black criminals, while no one in the government helped them. Anti-white race hustlers like Hannah-Jones would prefer you never talk about any of this. They’d prefer to call you racist for sending your child to a mostly-white school. And apparently, they’d prefer to send their own children to mostly-black schools, to really prove you wrong.
Except in this case, Hannah-Jones inadvertently proved conservatives right. But not before she unloads a bunch of false statistics to muddy the waters. Let’s read on:
In New York, a combination of housing segregation and “academic” sorting, called school choice, that begins as early as pre-K means most Black students — even middle-class ones — are forced to attend racially segregated schools with high rates of poverty. And nationally, schools in predominantly nonwhite districts receive $23 billion less in annual funding than their heavily white counterparts, according to a 2019 analysis by EdBuild. In everything that we measure, these schools have less, even though the economically struggling student bodies they serve need more.
This is simply wrong again from a factual perspective. As Marc McGee pointed out, Hannah-Jones is only counting the state and local revenue these schools receive.
When you count federal funds, the poor schools (and the non-white schools) receive much more money per pupil than the white schools. This is something Leftists don’t want to believe because it’s fatal to many of their racial narratives. But it happens to be true. Along the same lines, as we’ve previously discussed, black people tend to commit many, many more crimes, even when you control for income. Black people born into wealthy families, at the top 10% of incomes, are more likely to go to prison than white people born into poor families at the bottom 10%.
These are statistics that disprove the idea that “systemic oppression” is the cause of dysfunction in black communities, so the Left simply ignores these statistics. They lie about them, as Hannah-Jones is doing in this op-ed. So we’re told, falsely, that black students are doing poorly because their schools aren’t getting any money, and because their teachers are somehow underpaid. But actually, the teachers — including the teachers at this specific school — are making six figures, for only nine months of work a year. This is from the Manhattan Institute.
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NEW: We visited PS 307, the failing public school that Nikole Hannah-Jones sent her daughter to.
The teachers make an average of over $100,000 a year. The school spends $52,000 per student each year. The student/teacher ratio is 9 to 1.
We went to another school just down the street that spends less than half of what PS 307 does—yet the academic outcomes are significantly better.
Underfunding and racism aren’t causing schools to fail. @DanielDiMartino explains what is:
— Manhattan Institute (@ManhattanInst) September 21, 2026
Source: @ManhattanInst/X.com
So now that we’ve debunked the premise of this whole op-ed, let’s continue with Hannah-Jones’ piece:
Toward the end of first grade, Najya started sometimes saying she didn’t like her school and complaining how chaotic it was at lunch. I decided to visit during the lunch period and was shocked by what I saw. Najya’s class and another class were sitting at their tables in the cafeteria with no lunch and no adult supervision. Children were running wild, chasing, hitting and pushing each other while the teacher’s aides and cafeteria workers stood by looking bored. Several times, I had to instruct children to stop striking each other and to sit down, at one point physically pulling two boys apart. When I asked one of the aides why the children weren’t being supervised, she told me the lunch period was short-staffed. After I sat back down with Najya, she told me, “It’s always like this, and that’s why I don’t want to go to this school.”
It was not the children that horrified me — kids of all incomes are rambunctious at lunchtime. It was the callous disregard of the adults. Students respond to the high or low expectations of institutions and the grown-ups who operate them, and it was clear that these children were getting the message.
Actually, the behavior of the children should horrify you. They’re the ones who are acting like animals and physically attacking each other. It’s true that students respond to authority figures, and these children probably don’t have any of those — at school or at home. It’s also true that, just like adults, some children are naturally “problem children.” They’re not the kind of people you want your students to be around.
No amount of federal funding or one-on-one instruction will make them behave normally. That’s why, if you can avoid it, you should never send your child to a school where the students are violent. It’s not going to magically get better. Many of these kids are going to grow up to be carjackers and murderers, and we should stop pretending otherwise.
A child who is violent and dysfunctional and disruptive at a young age can still grow into a productive adult. But that won’t happen on its own. Human children are not baby lizards or birds. You can’t just give birth to them and then send them off into the wild with no further help or instruction. They have to be raised, guided, and morally and intellectually formed. If they aren’t — and many of the kids in the schools, and a huge number of kids in the black community generally aren’t — then, tragically, that dysfunctional and violent and disruptive behavior is almost certainly going to get worse with age, until they inevitably end up dead or in jail.
At some point, Hannah-Jones’ daughter realized her mother was torturing her on purpose and attempting to ruin her life so that she would have something to brag about in The New York Times’ break room. Or at least on New York Times Zoom calls, because going to the break room would require her to go to work, which she never does.
One day after school, her daughter said, “Did you know my school was bad like this when you decided to put me here?” And then eventually, she transferred to a mostly white school, where she began failing tests on material that would have earned her an A at her old one. She then gets a tutor and starts doing better. That’s the gist.
Among other things, this op-ed perfectly demonstrates the perverse, almost exactly inverted priorities of leftists like Hannah-Jones. For decent, functional, civilized human beings, the order of personal priorities starts at the most localized level and stretches out in concentric circles from there. Your immediate priority is your family — your spouse, your children. Next is your parents, your siblings. Then your extended family. Then your neighborhood. Then your broader community.
Leftists turn this exactly around. For them, your priorities should start at the broadest and most abstract level. You should value the collective — or at least the preferred demographic collective — above your own children, and even sacrifice your child’s well-being for its sake. Hannah-Jones took this perverse philosophy literally and put it into practice. It has ended exactly where any rational person would expect.
It’s a strange op-ed for a few other reasons, too, one of which is that just two years ago, Hannah-Jones was publicly claiming that she made the right choice in sending her child to a bad school:
By test-score metrics, any would label this school a failing school, but we judge these schools and their students without ever stepping inside. Eight years later, I still know we made the right choice.
As Zach Klein put it, “This would have been after her daughter challenged her about the school, after she realized her daughter’s teachers were not actually grading any of her work.” Despite all that, she “knows she made the right choice” in sending her kid there.
Now she’s supposedly more conflicted about it. The journey has provided a valuable lesson, supposedly. Here’s the grand finale of Hannah-Jones’ NYT piece:
[Najya] then said she was glad she had not spent her early years in a white environment as many of the Black students at her high school had, because she’d developed a strong sense of her identity and had the confidence to speak up against the casual racism they sometimes experienced. … Najya said that spending the last two years in classrooms full of privileged kids had taught her that these students weren’t smarter or even necessarily better behaved than the kids she had gone to school with before; they just had more. … The segregation we were battling in 2026 was supposed to have been banished by the sacrifices of Black children nearly seven decades ago, when their parents sent them to integrate their local schools to enforce the Supreme Court’s 1954 prohibition on school segregation after the government did not. … As long as we continue to rescue our own children from the failing schools where we allow other people’s children to languish simply because those children have been born Black and poor in a nation of racism and riches, there is no absolution here. Not for me. Not for you. Not for any of us.
So this is an op-ed where she demonstrates pretty clearly that white people are smart to avoid sending their kids to public schools in New York, which are only about 14% white. They’re not racist or whatever. They just want to avoid the same dysfunction that Hannah-Jones saw. But in the end, Hannah-Jones doesn’t appear to realize the upshot of her own op-ed.
The thing is, no one is “allowing other people’s children to languish simply because those children have been born black and poor in a nation of racism and riches.” That’s not happening. It’s true that many black schools and cities are languishing. But they’re languishing in spite of decades of affirmative action, in spite of trillions of dollars in federal funding, and in spite of the total transformation of the U.S. economy, such that — as Bloomberg reported in 2023 — 94% of jobs added by major U.S. corporations in 2021 went to so-called “people of color.”
Meanwhile, all of Hollywood, and all our media, began relentlessly peddling racial propaganda designed to promote pro-black narratives at every opportunity. Major companies like Apple and Uber began promoting “black-owned businesses.” The government hired millions of black people to do useless jobs, solely to keep them occupied and help them enter the middle class. We made up rules so that pretty much every major contract job has to enrich a black business in some way. All of these steps — and many, many others — were supposed to eventually yield better outcomes for black people.
They haven’t. According to this op-ed, and every other black commentator on the Left, things are worse than ever. So maybe it’s time to stop playing this game. Cut the funding entirely. End all racial preferences in every aspect of life. And start talking honestly about the horrors that were inflicted on innocent white people in the name of “diversity,” beginning during the civil rights era. Again, this is from our Real History documentary. It’s based on another book everyone should read, called “Left Behind in Rosedale.” This is what happened to the elderly whites who weren’t able to flee a neighborhood in east Fort Worth — the ones who couldn’t engage in so-called “white flight.”
This is the reality of what this country went through during the “civil rights era.” And it’s what we’re still having to endure, at the hands of charlatans and race hustlers like Nikole Hannah-Jones. They propagate totally fake narratives — they manufacture the most absurd lies — because any honest account of history reveals that their whole ideology is nonsense.
That’s also why they’re trying to drum up all of those fake lynchings. These people are like an auto mechanic who keeps coming up with new reasons why your car won’t start, for the 50th time. He wants you to keep coming back and spending money. At a certain point, if you’re a reasonable person, you have to admit you got a lemon. And then it’s time to move on — secure in the knowledge that, whatever happens to the car at that point, it’s not your problem.
