Author: Jasmyne Jade Hill

In the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War, as the South lay shattered and newly emancipated Black Americans sought to claim their rights, a new political weapon emerged among White elites desperate to maintain control. It was the accusation of a “redistribution of wealth.” Far from a neutral economic concern, the phrase became a racially charged attack line used to discredit Reconstruction policies and stir White resentment. Southern planters, politicians, and newspaper editors seized on the rhetoric almost immediately following emancipation. Rather than confronting the Confederacy’s defeat or the moral collapse of the slaveholding system, they pivoted to a...

The most dangerous thing artificial intelligence has learned from humanity is not how to speak. It is how to lie with confidence. This “machine,” this slick-talking oracle of convenience, was supposed to help humanity make sense of the world. Instead, it has become a parody of our worst instincts: bluffing, gaslighting, dodging responsibility, and insisting it is right even when the facts fall apart. What was marketed as “next-generation intelligence” now echoes the same psychological profile that brought American democracy to the brink: not a tool of knowledge, but a mirror held up to the most toxic, right-wing delusions...