Nikole Hannah-Jones is the New York Times writer who created the historically inaccurate ‘1619 Project’ which claimed that the United States was founded on slavery.
Despite being a woman of significant wealth, Hannah-Jones decided to send her daughter to a failing New York City school, because she wanted to make a point about education, race and politics. She thought that the school would be better if she and her daughter were involved with it.
Now her daughter is growing up and is asking her tough questions. She is resentful that her mother sent her to this school when things could have been so different.
Hannah-Jones just wrote a piece about this for the New York Times magazine. It’s behind a paywall, but the New York Post has some 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…
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.
It’s kind of amazing that Hannah-Jones is admitting that she did this.
“Did you know my school was bad like this when you decided to put me here?”
Brutal.
Nikole Hannah-Jones sacrificed her daughter’s education for political reasons, and her daughter called her on it — correctly. pic.twitter.com/2Y7UESA3Xh
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) September 20, 2026
Her daughter deserved better.
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