What happened
Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of the '1619 Project', has been criticized by Jason Whitlock for choosing to send her daughter to a low-performing public school in Brooklyn, despite having the means to afford a better education. According to Whitlock, Hannah-Jones' decision was motivated by her beliefs about race and her desire to prove a point about integration, rather than prioritizing her daughter's education.
Whitlock argues that Hannah-Jones' own parents had made a different choice for her, sending her to a better school, which ultimately led to her success. In contrast, Hannah-Jones chose to enroll her daughter, Najya, in PS307, a school that Whitlock describes as a 'low-income segregated school' that aligns with her mother's beliefs about justice.
Whitlock claims that Hannah-Jones' decision reveals that she prioritized her racial ideology over her daughter's well-being, effectively sacrificing her daughter's education to a 'race war' in her own mind. He also criticizes Hannah-Jones for admitting that she thought her family's privilege would protect her daughter from the school's dysfunction, saying that this admission shows she was aware of the potential risks.
