Nikole Hannah-Jones, the creator of the historically inaccurate 1619 Project, has just written a piece for The New York Times Magazine in which she laments sending her daughter to failing public schools to make a point.
Her daughter apparently wasn’t too happy about the decision either.
The piece is behind a paywall, but the New York Post has details:
Woke NYT, 1619 Project writer deliberately sent daughter to troubled schools as a ‘sacrifice’ — and it backfired spectacularly
The writer behind the New York Times’ controversial 1619 Project deliberately sent her daughter to poor Big Apple schools as a “sacrifice” to try to boost the education system — and no one is angrier than the kid.
The teen is now “boiling” mad — badly behind her peers after finally being allowed to enroll in a more rigorous high school, her mother revealed in a bombshell bizarre essay.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, 50, enrolled her only child in two struggling Brooklyn public schools beginning in 2015 — as part of a battle to change what she characterized as systemic racism, despite having the “connections and time and status” to get the girl into the city’s best schools, she wrote in the Times Magazine on Sunday.
That “status” included top-notch education of her own and financial security — she and her husband bought a $1.5 million Bed-Stuy brownstone in 2018.
But she said she still decided to offer up her daughter’s education for the cause of bettering the experience of black students in city schools.
By her own account, Hannah-Jones’ daughter Najya knows she was cheated by her parents.
“So you had money to send me to one of the best schools, and you chose not to?” the girl yelled in one fight, according to the essay. “Because other kids are disadvantaged, you didn’t want to put me in a great school?”
Hannah-Jones wrote of her decision, “We thought by sending Najya to a mostly low-income and Black school, we could help improve it for all the children there…
“Sometimes I wish instead of always thinking about other kids, you would have thought about me,” Hannah-Jones’ now-16-year-old daughter, Najya, said during a confrontation over the summer.
“I never really got the education I wanted.”
One Twitter/X user has pulled some of the most interesting excerpts:
The daughter is correct. I called this at the time. pic.twitter.com/RDyLe6yuCd
— Thomas Chatterton Williams (@thomaschattwill) September 20, 2026
— Thomas Chatterton Williams (@thomaschattwill) September 20, 2026
This is insane pic.twitter.com/oqrXBOxlN5
— Thomas Chatterton Williams (@thomaschattwill) September 20, 2026
Just wow pic.twitter.com/1IMYfcXqjV
— Thomas Chatterton Williams (@thomaschattwill) September 20, 2026
Oh, man pic.twitter.com/WcErTSy5ir
— Thomas Chatterton Williams (@thomaschattwill) September 20, 2026
You have to give Hannah-Jones at least credit for admitting all of this.
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