Black Historian Says Telling Truth, Documenting Facts Is Racist

 From the New York Post: "Historian says it’s racist to question her — after book about slavery pulled from shelves over inaccuracies." The so-called historian is Kerri Greenidge,  whose 2022 book “The Grimkes,” which was lauded by critics and won the American Historical Association’s Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, which lacks evidence to support many of its claims, as well as containing factual errors and missing key end notes. Her response was to play the race card:

“I am heartbroken that a field I have given my life to can treat me this way,” she told the outlet. “The attack on Black women academics is real.”   

That is hamster brain thinking: the problem isn't the fake "research" but that people are being mean. But the trouble isn't just with that one book. 

    Now another one of Greenidge’s books, “Black Radical,” which also had praise heaped upon it, is now being given a closer look.

    The 2019 biography about journalist and civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter also received a glowing review by the New York Times and won the Mark Lynton History Prize, awarded by Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation of Journalism at Harvard University.

    Historian and author Stephen Fox, who wrote a biography about Trotter in 1970, said many of Greenidge’s sources cited in the book didn’t match the material when he checked after the book was published.

    Then when he heard about the controversy bubbling up over “The Grimkes” he started questioning her rigor even more.

    “I started to think maybe it wasn’t just sloppy,” he told the outlet. “I think it’s something deeper.”