Chris Wallace Goes At Nikole Hannah-Jones for Claim Greatest Generation 'Violently Suppressed' Black

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Nikole Hannah-Jones took Chris Wallace apart in a very effective and dignified manner. I am impressed

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[elleng]

1. She didn't 'take him apart,' tho this is just part of the interview,

she disagreed with part of his assertion, and Wallace clearly missed a fair amount of history. It did take President Truman finally to desegregate the armed forces.

[dchill]

2. Note to Chris Wallace: We bleach things because they're dirty.

[UTUSN]

3. "goes at" her - more like, he flails himself silly and she stuns him into silence

(I saw other clips totalling the whole thing.)

[Wild blueberry]

4. She was calm and factual

He demonstrated white supremacy in his ignorance.

[yardwork]

5. The whole "greatest generation" thing is so annoying.

It seems Chris Wallace can't accept the fact that people "stormed the beaches" to defend democracy then came home and lynched Black people, voted to suppress Black people's rights, etc.

Golly, Chris, did you ever hear of the Southern Strategy? Who do you think planned and implemented it?

How old were the people who tortured and murdered Emmet Till, Chris? Oops, they were 20-30 year olds.

[RobinA]

6. It Seems To Be

so difficult for many people to get beyond black & white thinking. Pun not intended, I don't know how else to put it. White people are [fill in the blank], black people are [fill in the blank]. Those are good guys, they couldn't do anything bad. Those are bad guys, they couldn't do anything good. With a very few exceptions, there are no good guys or bad guys, there are just guys with varying degrees of goodness or badness depending on the circumstances.

[rurallib]

7. Chris Wallace is ignorant and proud of it

to paraphrase one of my favorite presidents.

Think he and I are close in age and I sure saw what Ms. Jones is talking about.

[Mike Nelson]

8. Well...

... I once panned Tom Brokaw's revered statement - and I was condemned. I thought there were other "Generations" just as great and said there were some bad things about each one, too.