Top 10 misleading and outrageous statements from NYT 1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones
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Hannah-Jones famously penned inaccurate 'The 1619 Project'
While promoting a revised look at U.S. history, New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones has pushed some highly misleading and outrageous claims over the past few years.
Here are just 10 of the more outrageous statements and tweets Hannah-Jones has said or written since 2019.
Appearing on a podcast with Ezra Klein in 2019, Hannah-Jones promoted Cuba as a country with a "viable and sufficiently ambitious integration agenda" due primarily to socialism.
"But in places that are truly at least biracial countries, Cuba actually has the least inequality. And that's largely due to socialism – which I'm sure no one wants to hear," Hannah-Jones argued.
She previously wrote an article on The Oregonian in 2008 where she boasted that Cuba had a very high literacy rate, a low HIV-infection rate, universal education, and a "model" universal health care system that assisted Black Cubans.
In January, fellow New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg tweeted out a comment calling media pundits to "spend more time thinking" why more people trust popular podcast host Joe Rogan over journalists. Hannah-Jones responded by claiming that "millions of Americans" have been accepting "open racism" for years.
"With respect, I don't get this. We need to understand why millions of Americans don't mind the open racism? It's not a mystery. Been reporting on it for years. So, what do we do with that?" she tweeted.
She deleted the comment but kept up several replies to the original tweet continuing to imply that Rogan and millions of listeners accepted racism…