1619 Writer Nikole Hannah-Jones Just Learned the Hard Way That WOKE SUCKS and Her Kid Paid the Price

The New York Times star and 1619 Project architect decided her daughter Najya needed to be enrolled in struggling Brooklyn public schools as a moral “sacrifice” to the cause — never mind the family’s money, connections, or the fact that the classrooms in question were already failing large numbers of kids on the basics. The experiment delivered exactly what anyone outside the faculty lounge could have predicted: a teenager who fell behind, realized she’d been shortchanged on purpose, and asked her parents why other people’s talking points mattered more than her education.

Hannah-Jones now says she failed both her values and her child. The values were optional. The child wasn’t supposed to notice.

This is simply horrific:

Woke NYT, 1619 Project writer deliberately sent daughter to troubled schools as a 'sacrifice' - and it backfired spectacularly https://t.co/qrn4StRaEK pic.twitter.com/1u25nVsgzJ
— New York Post (@nypost) September 20, 2026

From the New York Post:

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.

1619 Writer Nikole Hannah-Jones Just Learned the Hard Way That WOKE SUCKS and Her Kid Paid the Price

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