“Ijust want what’s best for you.” My parents said that to me countless times when I questioned a decision they made on my behalf. Most parents say some version of that. Even though as children we may not understand why our parents did something, we could trust that our parents were in fact doing what was best for us and were trying to put us first.
But Nikole Hannah-Jones’ daughter cannot say the same. For, as Hannah-Jones herself writes in a New York Times op-ed, she “had not chosen [her daughter]” nor had she given her “what she needed to thrive.”
Instead, Hannah-Jones sacrificed her daughter for race communism.
In the op-ed, the creator of the 1619 Project explained that she and her husband failed their daughter, Najya, by placing her in a failing public school despite having the means to provide their daughter with a good education. Hannah-Jones explained how her money, connections, and advocacy could improve the school for every child, with her daughter being used as the conduit to make that a reality.
“Najya deserved better,” Hannah-Jones wrote. “They all did. But she was mine. This girl, my only child, looked to me to protect her, to give her what she needed to thrive. And I had not chosen her.”
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