NPR chief exec. Katherine Maher is being likened to “the blonde version of Robin DiAngelo” after an exchange between her and a Texas Rep. went viral on Wednesday, revealing old tweets claiming that “America is addicted to white supremacy” and “How white of me.”
Maher appeared flustered as Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) confronted Maher with several tweets from before her tenure at NPR during a congressional hearing on Wednesday, one of which where she claimed to have taken time off to read “The Case for Reparations,” a 2014 essay by woke activist, Ta-Nehisi Coates.
When pressed about the contents of the text, Maher appeared flustered and said, “I don’t think I’ve ever read that book, sir.”
“You tweeted about it. You said you took a day off to fully read ‘The Case for Reparations.’ You put that on Twitter in January of 2020,” Gill countered, to which Maher responded, “I apologize. I don’t recall that I did. Okay. I’d no doubt that your tweet there is correct, but I don’t recall that.”
The hearing revealed an extensive backlog of controversial tweets from Maher; when questioned about a tweet claiming “America is addicted to white supremacy,” Maher acknowledged making the statement but claimed, “much of my thinking has evolved over the last half-decade.”
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