{"id":658912,"date":"2021-08-18T17:40:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T21:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=658912"},"modified":"2021-08-18T17:40:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T21:40:38","slug":"stacey-abrams-staffer-shares-tweet-comparing-united-states-to-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stacey-abrams-staffer-shares-tweet-comparing-united-states-to-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacey Abrams Staffer Shares Tweet Comparing United States to Taliban\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstacey-abrams-staffer-shares-tweet-comparing-united-states-to-taliban%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=658912&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"28.845070422535\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">The staffer removed retweet after a Free Beacon inquiry<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1183652988_736x514-736x514-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2020\/05\/GettyImages-1183652988_736x514.jpg 736w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2020\/05\/GettyImages-1183652988_736x514-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2020\/05\/GettyImages-1183652988_736x514-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tStacey Abrams \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/patrick-hauf\/\" title=\"Posts by Patrick Hauf\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Patrick Hauf<\/a> \u2022 August 18, 2021 4:10 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"74.22267412303\">\n<p>A top Stacey Abrams staffer shared and then removed a social media post that called the American Revolution the &#8220;US jihad&#8221; and compared the U.S. government to the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>A.D. Fields, a political director for Stacey Abrams&#8217;s voter rights organization, Fair Fight Action, removed his <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retweet<\/a> of the Twitter thread after a <em>Washington Free Beacon <\/em>inquiry. In the post, Michael Harriot, a senior writer for the <em>Root, <\/em>referred to African Americans who fled the colonies after fighting for the British as &#8220;refugees from the American Taliban.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;About 75-80% of the Black people who fought in the US jihad we called the American Revolution fought AGAINST the USA,&#8221; Harriot <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelharriot\/status\/1427714398882340865?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>. &#8220;At least England had the decency to evacuate them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.41265060241\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oh, wait\u2026 That was the First Charter of the Virginia Company of London who built\u2026*checks notes*\u2026Jamestown<br \/>About 75-80% of the Black people who fought in the US jihad we called the American Revolution fought AGAINST the USA<\/p>\n<p>At least England had the decency to evacuate them.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelharriot\/status\/1427714398882340865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Harriot&#8217;s tweets were in response to the Biden administration&#8217;s removal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, which left thousands of Americans and local allies stranded as the Taliban took control of the region.<\/p>\n<p>Harriot is a full-time writer for the <em>Root<\/em>\u2014an African American-focused digital magazine\u2014and frequently appears on CNN and MSNBC. He also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/why-white-people-hate-critical-race-theory-explained-1846578811\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says<\/a> he taught critical race theory as an economics professor.<\/p>\n<p>Fair Fight Action and the<em> Root<\/em> did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams is a failed gubernatorial candidate in Georgia who has become the face of Democratic Party efforts to reform election laws nationwide. Fair Fight Action is an advocacy group founded by Abrams that focuses on alleged voter suppression in conservative states.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Root<\/em> is owned by G\/O Media, which controls a number of publications such as <em>Deadspin<\/em>, <em>Jezebel<\/em>, the <em>A.V. Club<\/em>, and the <em>Onion<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats The staffer removed retweet after a Free Beacon inquiry  Stacey Abrams \/ Getty Images  Patrick Hauf \u2022 August 18, 2021 4:10 pm &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}