Pulitzer Prize-winning author Nikole Hannah-Jones, who created The New York Times’ “1619 Project” that rewrites history to claim America has always been racist, briefly deactivated her Twitter account on Sunday following a string of tweets that caused an outrage.
The final tweet in Hannah-Jones’ thread of controversial statements said “Read this” and linked to a thread from another user that speculated fireworks were being set off in Brooklyn as “part of a coordinated attack on Black and Brown communities by government forces; an attack meant to disorient and destabilize the Black Lives Matter movement.” The person claimed these “government forced” wanted to deprive these communities of sleep and desensitize them to the sounds of explosives, among other things.
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