NYT Writer Says She Has No ‘Hope,’ Lambastes Wealthy And Powerful — While Earning $36k An Hour To Speak To D.C.’s Cheering Elites

A wealthy suburb of D.C. celebrated President’s Day by paying $36,000 to the man who created the 1619 Project. This was in an effort to criticize Virginia’s founding fathers and the powerful elites.

McLean, Virginia is home to the CIA, as well as some of the top bureaucrats and congressmen, lobbyists and defense contractors in the country. The median household income is $242,000, and the population is only 2. 2% Black. Hannah-Jones spoke Sunday at McLean Community Center and received a $36,000 check from taxpayers.

Hannah Jones, a racially-charged speaker, told them that the rich and powerful use racism to pit working class people against one another to preserve their power. “redistributionist” policies.

The powerful want to convince you otherwise “if you work hard like them you’ll be rich one day, too. You won’t,” She . “But if I say everything in our society has been created by government policy, local, state, federal, by private policy, then I start to support policies of redistribution.”

We can think. “racial capitalism is shaping our society, then we support different policies,” She spoke.

The 1619 Project “directly challenges the narrative of American exceptionalism,” She spoke. “We die earlier, all of us, than the Western industrialized countries that we compare ourselves to. We have the least labor protections, right? We have the greatest income inequality, the worst social safety net.”

America is “the first country they say was founded as an idea and yet we have January 6th and yet we go from the first black president to a pretty openly white nationalist president,” She continued.

The author seemed to be suffering from a negative outlook, despite her being an Iowan woman who is half-white and half-black. $1.2 Million Last year, speaking fees were “We down here fighting for crumbs” And “My motivation is rage.”

“[I’m told] I should be grateful that I’m not in slavery or I should be grateful that I’m not in apartheid. I just think I just I don’t accept that premise, right, because we have everything in this society to create the society we want and we just make choices not to. So I always say I don’t have hope. I think we will be fighting these fights as long as there’s an America.”

The comments from the New York Times writer — and the attitude among the elite audience — are reminiscent of those from Washington Post writer Taylor Lorenz, who grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, and attended a Swiss boarding school but last week expressed despondency, Writing “we’re living in a late stage capitalist hellscape… u have to be delusional to look at life in our country rn [right now] and have any amt [amount] of hope or optimism.”

McLean is the most prestigious and connected town in the state, which was home to many Founding Fathers. Jones is a noteworthy choice for President’s Day weekend.

“So much of what we are fighting against in our society was architected here,” Hannah-Jones said. “The true heart of America was Virginia … The primary drafters of our founding documents of this idea of republicanism, they were all Virginians and they were all enslavers.”

She implied that Virginians deciding to elect a Republican governor in 2021 meant the state was accepting the legacy of slavery.

“A red former Confederate state that turns blue and now it’s in the balance … which legacy will this state succumb to or will it be a state that moves forward?”

“You can lead in something good for once,” Hannah-Jones said, while the moderator—Fairfax County Chief Equity Officer Karla Bruce—said, “That’s right.” (Bruce spoke to The Daily Wire following the talk. “I don’t see equity work as partisan.”)

Hannah-Jones said: “Power doesn’t want to be challenged. It likes to exist in silence. It likes to believe the society we have is the society we have to have. And when you start to see the code behind it and realize it’s been constructed, then you know it can be deconstructed.”

The line was applauded and one middle-aged woman was seen murmuring. “mm-hmm!” And “that’s right!” Every few seconds, almost as if you were in a trance. After the ceremony, a group consisting of white elderly women dressed in masks gathered to congratulate one another for their attendance. One told her friends. “This is our group of bad-asses.” One attendee drove away in a car that had the license plate. “B WOKE.”

Flyers Purporting to be from the Ku Klux Klan were passed out in McLean in the days before the event — a curiosity because the area is deep blue and heavily monitored. Fairfax County Police stated last week that they were conducting an investigation, but they did not respond to The Daily Wire’s request for information.

“My coming has shown me I think the ugly side some communities, and it hasn’t been an easy task I know in the