The Dedicated Ignorance of Nikole Hannah-Jones and the 1619 Project
Perhaps the most important thing to understand about Nikole Hannah-Jones is that she’s a member of the black bourgeoisie who suffers from the cognitive dissonance that is common to black people of her class: How can she rationalize her privilege in a nation where black people are disproportionately poor? Her solution is to promote the secular religion derived from Derrick…