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‘Perverse priorities’ made Nikole Hannah-Jones put her cause before her child

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New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones thought she was making her educational choices to favor the interests of black people, and she was — just the wrong ones.

In a long essay for The New York Times Magazine, the radical African-American journalist writes about how her decision to send her daughter to dreadful New York City public schools for ideological reasons ended in tears. 

Jones, who achieved notoriety for her role as an editor of the paper’s “1619 Project,” believed that putting her daughter in rotten elementary and middle-school schools would strike a blow for racial equity. 

In her view, it’s unfair that so many black kids are trapped in under-performing New York City schools.

If she trapped her own daughter in them, the thought, she and her husband — with their superior wherewithal — could make the schools better for everyone. 

What started as a project motivated by a savior complex ended as an episode of educational Munchausen syndrome by proxy.

‘1619 Project’ scribe Nikole Hannah-Jones has only BEGUN to face how she failed her daughter

Nikole Hannah-Jones failed her daughter and learned absolutely nothing from........

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