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

Nikole Hannah-Jones looks to be trying her best to honestly confront what she’s done to her daughter and figure out where she went wrong, though she still seems unsure if she did.Ironically, though, the way she has (we don’t doubt it, anyway) harmed her daughter’s education is the result of her own parents taking the opposite course — namely, pushing young Nikole into the best schools they possibly could ..

.which unfortunately taught her a great pack of nonsense that she still can’t let go of.Hannah-Jones’ essay in The New York Times Magazine agonizes over her daughter’s fury that her parents chose to enroll her in two struggling Brooklyn schools in the belief that it would advance social justice — that they could use their own privilege to make a difference.And she makes it painfully clear that this part of her “fight for school equality for all Black children” .

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failed.She made some effort — visiting the high-poverty primary school and complaining that the lunchroom was constant chaos; emailing administrators and teachers who were clearly failing to do their jobs — but she somehow wound up accepting “no” as an answer, and even no replies at all.Time and again in her essay, she falls back on the beliefs she started with: The schools are under-resourced; “a system of inequality” that stems from “outside the school walls but is magnified within them” makes change near-impossible.This is why Hannah-Jones’ “1619 Project” had so many gross factual errors: She’s blinded by ideology.In reality, her daughter’s awful primary school spends a mind-boggling $52,000 per student: The problem isn’t resources, but a staff that doesn’t try to do better, and gets away with it.A past outraged black mother might try to rally the community to demand action; we see no sign that Hannah-Jones or her husband Faraji — who in these years was moving up through the system’s parent-leadership ranks all the way to the Panel on Educa...