Nikole Hannah-Jones lectures survivor of China's Cultural Revolution on oppression: 'Does not match' reality

New York Times journalist and "1619 Project" creator Nikole Hannah-Jones attempted to speech a subsister of Mao's Cultural Revolution astir oppression successful a fierce speech online.

Hannah-Jones, whose astir salient publication to publicity is her group of New York Times Magazine essays claiming that America was founded by nan British colonists successful bid to safeguard and beforehand slavery, sparred pinch CRT force Xi Van Fleet connected Twitter Sunday aft nan Maoist subsister challenged Jones' rejection of "American exceptionalism."

Nikole Hannah-Jones speak astatine Howard University's "Democracy Summit" connected November 15, 2021.  (Howard University )

In a three-part thread, Hannah-Jones based on that Black history is nether onslaught because "our very beingness connected these lands is nan top rebuke to nan communicative of American exceptionalism."

"Yourself and I, an migrant from China pinch 200 borrowed dollars successful my pouch erstwhile I arrived much than 30 yrs ago, are nan impervious of American Exceptionalism," Van Fleet fired back.

When pressed to elaborate by Hannah-Jones, Van Fleet based on that earthy authorities are unsocial to America's founding, telling Jones that because "of it we were capable to abolish slavery, Jim Crow, anti-Chinese laws … to let individuals to succeed.

"What is not unsocial to America is slavery, which still exists today," she added. "Ppl fighting for quality authorities successful China are jailed by CCP."

"Ma'am," Hannah-Jones retorted, "the thought of earthy authorities whitethorn person been unique, but 1/5th of nan organization was enslaved astatine our founding and had nary "natural rights." Further, you do not deliberation protesters successful nan US look authorities unit and arrest? You deliberation nan US has nary governmental prisoners?

Hannah-Jones past instructed Van Fleet to watch "episode five" of her Hulu docuseries to amended herself connected nan enslavement and oppression, earlier remarking, "I'm acrophobic your imagination of America does not lucifer nan reality."

Van Fleet responded that her mentation of America is not a "vision" arsenic Hannah-Jones suggested, but is simply a "lived acquisition nether nan enslavement of Communism, state successful America, and nan existent Woke Revolution aiming to undo America."

"Black Americans are enslaved nary much acknowledgment to nan persevering principles and humanity of this country," she told Hannah-Jones.

Xi Van Fleet, a subsister of Mao Zedong's revolution, has been outspoken astir nan dangers of socialism. (Fox News)

Van Fleet, who endured Zedong's Cultural Revolution earlier walking to nan U.S. astatine 26, precocious based on earlier a Virginia schoolhouse committee that CRT ideology teaches our children to "loathe our history and our country," recounting her ain acquisition emigrating from China to nan U.S. wherever she was provided pinch freedoms and opportunities she had been deprived of before.

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"I conscionable want Americans to cognize that their privilege is to be present surviving successful America," she said." That is conscionable nan biggest privilege."

Fox News' Gabriel Hays contributed to this report.