Jemele Hill

Contributing writer for The ATLANTIC. Born and raised in Detroit. Grew up at Michigan State. MY MEMOIR UPHILL IS ON SALE NOW. LINK BELOW.

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

@MrDadWater Neither was Candace Parker or Diana Taurasi.

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

Where did I say that? It was clearly a flagrant. It should have been called. I just think it’s funny how y’all are so determined to turn everything involving Caitlin Clark into a conspiracy. It’s telling.

[Judie Hall @JudieHall9]

@jemelehill So you think it’s perfectly okay to do this to someone simply because the one doing it is black?

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

First of all, let’s not name call because you and I both know you would never have this same type of bravado if you saw me in public. You’d put your head down and keep it moving.

Secondly, y’all the ones always hollering and crying about race being brought up too much … but surprise, surprise, that isn’t the case now.

[Bobby Burack @burackbobby_]

No, you ghoul. He’s saying she shouldn’t play in a league that allows players to punch her in that throat absent a foul because she’s straight and white.

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

@lhpanthermom So what has that got to do with her being straight and white?

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

So is he implying that she should receive special treatment because she’s straight and white?

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

"If I were Caitlin Clark, I would seriously consider going to play overseas somewhere and get the royal treatment…she's a straight white basketball player. And she is not being treated with any sort of respect" – Boomer Esiason

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

Shole did

[Jimmy Hexdrix @Lr4James]

@jemelehill A.T. foul on Angel Reese a while ago was just as bad as the foul she had on C.C. and Boomer didn’t say anything. She closed lined Angel mid air.

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

@DrewRipsCards The implication is that she should be getting more respect because she’s straight and white.

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

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[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

Obama saying Trump don’t want the smoke on All The Smoke is ::chef’s kiss::

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Obama on Trump:

If this whoever you were talking about was in front of me — which has happened a couple times — he don't talk like that because he knows better.

Source: ALL THE SMOKE

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

Big, if true.

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

A Brazilian psychic teared up while claiming that aliens will invade the Brazil vs Scotland match at the World Cup

She says UFOs will abduct players and hundreds of fans from the stadium

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

@Georgiapapi Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with the collective bargaining agreement. Players are not obligated to go to this.

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

If Jim Dolan announced the team was going to The White House without discussing it with the team, that is despicable.

[Michael Calderone @mlcalderone]

Jim Dolan announced last week that the team accepted Trump's invite for the Knicks to go to the White House.

@TomKludt had asked Jalen Brunson about the prospect of a WH visit hours before, and here's what he said:

“We haven’t discussed it,” Brunson said. “But as a team, we’ll discuss it and we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.”

https://t.co/f8dizHJqt8

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

@OJTheKing @GeorgeFoster72 HARD AGREE

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

We had a pretty heated debate last night on @CNN_NewsNight about Trump admitting publicly he tried to interfere with California’s primary elections and then falsely claiming that’s the reason Steve Hilton is in the November runoff for governor https://t.co/W0lQtx23JX

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

@OJPhilly @clarencehilljr Ok this is funny as hell

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

@theguiltlessman How much of a person did they count for in the South? Remind me again.

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

All that writing and all you had to do was look up the Three-Fifths Compromise.

[C-Reason🇺🇸 @CreasonJana]

.@jemelehill claimed on @CNN that the Electoral College is rooted in slavery as she tried to defend Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss to Trump.

Yes. It’s 2026 and CNN is still spending time re-litigating 2016, while at the same time telling Republicans to quit talking about Biden because he’s no longer president.

Jemele Hill: “The electoral college is rooted in slavery. That, that was the entire reason that it was- Invented essentially, and we should have gotten from up under it a long time ago, and not just because you have two women quite capable who lose the election.”

So let’s take a look at some of the other every day things the radical leftists are now saying is racist or rooted in slavery, and try not to roll your eyes too much:

Food and Drink
- White/Whole Milk
• Apparently linked to white supremacy by some academics, PETA and political figures like Oregon Democrat Rep Maxine Dexter.
• Critics have tried to call milk itself problematic and tied to racial health disparities.

Education and Academics
- Mathematics … algebra, 2+2=4, objective answers, and showing work
• Seattle schools, California’s equity math pushes, Equitable Math and some university professors have called TRADITIONAL Math ‘racist’ and tied to ‘white supremacy culture’.
• Claims that emphasizing the right answer, objectivity or western foundations … upholds capitalism/imperialism or creates disparate outcomes.
• Standardized testing, grades, merit and rigor are viewed as perpetuating inequities rooted in systemic racism/slavery legacies.
- Punctuality/Timeliness and Urgency are considered ‘white supremacy culture’ because they are generally white-dominate traits devaluing other cultural approaches in time.
- Grammer, Proper English and Written Communication are considered racist or a tool of white supremacy for enforcing dominant norms.
- Hard work, Self-Reliance, Politeness, Objectivity, Ratio Al/Linear Thinking and Perfectionism are considered ‘white dominant’ cultural traits.

Institutions, Symbols, and Policies
- Voter ID Laws … often called Jim Crow 2.0 because Democrat and progressive groups consider black people unintelligent enough to get IDs or find their polling places.
- Border Wall/Security is labeled as racist and xenophobic because it symbolizes white nationalism and anti-immigrant bias rooted in historical exclusion.
- American Flag, Patriotism and ‘Make America Great -Again’ are considered ‘dog-whistles’ for racism and tied to supremacist nostalgia.
- Founding Documents, Constitution and Capitalism are framed as rooted in slavery/racism, with institutions seen as irredeemable white supremacy.

Language and Everyday Practices
- Words/Phrases with historic ties … such as master/slave in tech, peanut gallery, plantation shutters, sold down the River.
- Professionalism Standards such as dress, speech and behavior are often critiqued as biased toward white/western norms.
- Colorblindbess or ‘not seeing race’.
• Martin Luther King Jr.-style views sometimes dismissed as naive or upholding racism by ignoring systemic issues.

Other Notable Examples
- Classical Music, Certain Hairstyles or Cultural Norms … appropriation or ‘whiteness’ debates.
- Environmental or Farming Practices … occasional ties to colonial legacies.
- COVID Policies or other Neutral Rules … disparate impact arguments leading to racism claims.

These ideas appear in teacher trainings, university materials, DEI programs, and statements from some elected Democrats or aligned activists.

Many trace to broader theories positing that race-neutral policies can still be “racist” if they sustain disparities.

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

They basically gave my man a Performance Improvement Plan before he even started. Wild work.

[Jason Quick @jwquick]

BREAKING: Micah Nori has agreed to become the head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, sources tell @TheAthletic. Nori was lead assistant of the Minnesota Timberwolves for the past five years. Nori, 52, signed a one-year deal with team options for each of the next two seasons.

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

@StaceyDales Joey Crawford says hold my beer … 😂

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

Fascinating.

[Aisar @aisarcore]

For years Walmart made $300 MILLION sending demand letters to people accused of shoplifting. Many were never convicted. Some were never guilty. One of them refused to pay and a jury gave her $2.1 MILLION.

– Lesleigh Nurse was a mother of three from Semmes, Alabama.

– In November 2016 she went to her local Walmart with her husband and three children.

– She used the self-checkout but the scanner froze.

– A Walmart associate came over and helped her through it. She left thinking everything was resolved.

– An asset protection manager stopped her outside. She was accused of stealing 11 items including Christmas lights, a loaf of bread and a box of Cap'n Crunch with a total value to about $48.

– She was arrested for shoplifting.

– A year later the criminal case was dismissed after the Walmart employee failed to appear in court.

– One month later a Florida law firm sent her a letter on behalf of Walmart.

– Pay $200 or face a civil lawsuit. The demand was even more than the groceries she was accused of stealing.

– She refused and in her words “I didn't do anything wrong. Why would I pay for something I didn't do?"

– During the trial that followed a law professor testified that in a two year period Walmart had charged 1.4 MILLION people across America with criminal theft and collected $300 MILLION through these demand letters.

– Many had never been convicted. Some had never been guilty.

– Walmart never produced the self-checkout surveillance footage that would have proved whether she stole anything or not.

– "It would have shown the truth and they didn't want the truth to be shown," she said.

– A Mobile County jury unanimously awarded her $2.1 MILLION in November 2021.

– Walmart filed a motion asking the court to throw out the verdict entirely.

Next time your self-checkout scanner freezes at Walmart remember there is a system built to send you a bill whether you are guilty or not. 1.4 million people paid it. She was the one who said no.