Exclusive | Husband of 1619 Projects Nikole Hannah-Jones claims she belongs next to MLK as civil-rights icon then bizarrely appears to contradict her

The hubby of controversial New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones on Monday compared her to civil-rights icon Martin Luther King while defending enrolling their daughter in flailing public schools as a racism-fighting “sacrifice” — even after his wife admitted the kid “got cheated” by the choice.Faraji Hannah-Jones, 50,  balked at criticisms that he and his 1619 Project creator wife were parental “failures” — despite the fact that their daughter was badly behind her peers entering high school  and his wife admitted regretting the move in an extensive Times Magazine essay Sunday.“When history looks back on this, she’s going to be one of our civil-rights leaders,’’ Faraji told The Post, referring to his 50-year-old spouse, outside the family’s more than $1.5 million home in trendy Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.“She’s going to be one of the very individuals who stood up” the husband said.“You have to be in it and it requires risk.Martin Luther King, James Baldwin, Ruby Bridges, it all required them to be in it and as a result, things happen. “There are wins and loses.

So when you look at the perspective of that, there were no mistakes made.It’s necessary work.“It’s never at the present, the most populous time,’’ he said of great leaders being recognized.

“No one said, ‘You know, Muhammad Ali, he’s a great man now.’ But back then, he was an enemy of the state.“Martin Luther King is a great man now, but he was an enemy of the state.”The woke couple enrolled their young daughter in floundering Brooklyn elementary and middle schools despite being able to send her to the city’s best — a move that left their now 16-year-old child struggling to read, write and do basic math by the time she reached high school.The questionable decision was not lost on the girl,  who was“boiling” mad that her parents chose to “sacrifice’’ her education in that way, Nikole admitted in her essay.The mom said she and her husband...