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Chris Wallace slammed for getting into HEATED argument with 1619 Project author Nikole Hannah-Jones

'It is remarkable how Chris Wallace clings to the fantasy of history in the face of facts,' a user sarcastically wrote

Chris Wallace faced the wrath of people online after he got into an heated argument with ‘1619 Project’ author Nikole Hannah-Jones over America’s racial past. The two sat together for Wallace’s CNN+ show, where the broadcast journalist questioned Hannah-Jones for claiming that the “Greatest Generation” that fought in World War II were responsible for brutally suppressing African Americans in the US.

Reading an excerpt from her controversial series from the New York Times, Wallace said: “Without the idealistic strenuous and patriotic efforts of black Americans, our democracy today would most likely look very different. It might not be a democracy at all. We like to call those who lived during World War II the Greatest Generation, but that allows us to ignore the fact that many of this generation fought for democracy abroad, while brutally suppressing democracy for millions of American citizens.”

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He then questioned Hannah-Jones by asking, “Again, I am in no way minimizing our terrible racial legacy. But in some of these things, aren’t you overstating?” To which, the 45-year-old investigative journalist said: “If you have half of the country — where it’s in some states majorities, in many other states pluralities, 25% of the population, 40% of the population, cannot vote, have their vote violently suppressed, where they’re a single one-party, one-race rule in a region where about 30% of the population is black … would you consider that democracy?”

To apparently prove Hannah-Jones wrong, Wallace asserted that young people from “ethnic neighborhoods in Brooklyn and South Philly” who went to “storm the beaches of Normandy” were not “brutally suppressing blacks,” she hit back saying: “Well, they were.” The 74-year-old argued, “No, they weren’t. You don’t be telling me that a farm, that a kid coming off a farm in Indiana, or a kid who came from Brooklyn, was suppressing black people.”

Hannah-Jones answered back, “Indiana has the largest population of the Klan in the United States. The Klan was raised, was reached first in Indiana.” Wallace then pointed out that she was generalizing and smearing “the 20- and 30-year-olds who defended democracy.” In response, she added: “But 30-year-old is a fully grown person who can serve in Congress, who can be the mayor, who can act, enact laws and policies — these are not children. These are not babies. We wouldn’t parse this, I think, if we were talking again about another country and say, well, well, yes, the government was violently suppressing but everyone else, they weren’t.”

The whole argument has attracted a lot of reactions online with people calling out Wallace. A user sarcastically tweeted: “It is remarkable how Chris Wallace clings to the fantasy of history in the face of facts. Then again, he has been living in a fact free world of fox… @nhannahjones you are FANTASTIC!!! Thank you for standing in truth. 👑✊🏽💗💜💐💐💐.” Another user wrote, “Think, Chris Wallace genuinely thought bringing up a good old boy from Indiana was proof that our greatest generation wasn't racist. Hes been fed a lie just as myself, & he cant see his father projected in any other way than as a saint.  This is what the heritage foundation does.”

A tweet noted, “Chris Wallace is making excuses, assuming 19-20yr man didn't participant in JIM CROW before/after the War.  Those same kids grew up under parents of 1910-41. those same kids were adults in 1940's, 50's & 60's during time of Lynching.  You mean they didn't read, didn't know BULL💩.” “chris wallace is disturbed by 1619 project because white children finds it offensive, make them feel guilty 4 their whiteness and feel hurtful, while millions of black students attend schools that honors slave holders and wallace will never ask them r their parents about that,” another tweet added.