Nikole Hannah-Jones promotes racial politics and the “1619 Project” at the University of Michigan

On Thursday, October 17, Nikole Hannah-Jones, lead author of the New York Times’ “1619 Project,” appeared at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in an event titled, “Realizing Justice and Equity in the Long Arc of History.” Panel discussion at the University of Michigan: Seated (L-R) Dr. Trina Shanks, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Professor Terri Friedline. Hannah-Jones answered questions from two moderators for more than an hour, giving a barely coherent presentation of her racialist conception of American history and contemporary society. She took no questions from the audience of several hundred people, online and in-person. Despite its fractured and intellectually impoverished character, her presentation had a clear purpose—to employ the racialist falsifications of history promulgated by the 1619 Project to promote the presidential campaign of Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. Even more fundamentally, Hannah-Jones sought, in response to the growing resistance of the working class in America to war, genocide and capitalist exploitation, to insist that race, not class, is the driving force of social and political development, and that white workers are part of the ongoing legacy of white supremacy rooted in the history of slavery in the American South. Hannah-Jones began with a defense of the 1619 Project as...