{"id":596959,"date":"2021-07-19T13:35:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T17:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=596959"},"modified":"2021-07-19T13:35:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T17:35:51","slug":"nikole-hannah-jones-praised-cuba-as-most-equal-country-in-the-western-hemisphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikole-hannah-jones-praised-cuba-as-most-equal-country-in-the-western-hemisphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikole Hannah-Jones Praised Cuba as \u2018Most Equal\u2019 Country in the Western Hemisphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnikole-hannah-jones-praised-cuba-as-most-equal-country-in-the-western-hemisphere%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=596959&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.417040358744\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">New York Times journalist credited socialism for communist dictatorship&#8217;s &#8216;equality&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"468\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-10-at-5.17.28-PM-736x468-1.png\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-10-at-5.17.28-PM-e1623359892135.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-10-at-5.17.28-PM-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-10-at-5.17.28-PM-1024x651.png 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-10-at-5.17.28-PM-768x488.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-10-at-5.17.28-PM-1536x976.png 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-10-at-5.17.28-PM-2048x1302.png 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-10-at-5.17.28-PM-1400x890.png 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/>\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/karl-salzmann\/\" title=\"Posts by Karl Salzmann\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Karl Salzmann<\/a> \u2022 July 19, 2021 1:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"83.655248397436\">\n<p><i>New York Times<\/i> journalist and 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones praised the communist dictatorship of Cuba for leading the &#8220;most equal&#8221; country in the Western Hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cuba has the least inequality between black and white people of any place really in the hemisphere,&#8221; Hannah-Jones said in a 2019 podcast episode hosted by <i>Vox<\/i> cofounder Ezra Klein. &#8220;Cuba actually has the least inequality. And that&#8217;s largely due to socialism, which I&#8217;m sure no one wants to hear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>National Pulse<\/em>&nbsp;first <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/breaking\/1619-project-founder-praises-cuban-equality-due-to-socialism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> on Hannah-Jones&#8217;s comments following anti-regime protests that have rocked Cuba and led to violent crackdowns from President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel. While some U.S. media, the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/black-lives-matter-comes-to-castro-regimes-defense-amid-cuba-unrest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Lives Matter movement<\/a>, and D\u00edaz-Canel blamed pandemic shortages and the American embargo for the protests, the protesters say they oppose the communist regime, with many chanting &#8220;Liberty,&#8221; &#8220;We want change,&#8221; and &#8220;Down with the dictatorship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cuban Americans criticized Hannah-Jones&#8217;s comments, with former Trump administration spokeswoman Mercedes Schlapp writing that &#8220;anti-American factions in our own country fail to understand the horrors of communism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.5789473684211\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Please go to Cuba And stay in Cuba \u2013 Nicole Hannah-Jones.  the Anti-American factions in our own country fail to understand the horrors of Communism. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VQEYQkgKPu\">https:\/\/t.co\/VQEYQkgKPu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mercedes Schlapp (@mercedesschlapp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mercedesschlapp\/status\/1416903734299435008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The 2019 podcast was not the first time Hannah-Jones praised the Cuban regime. The <i>National Pulse<\/i> noted that in a 2008 piece for <i>The Oregonian<\/i>, she wrote that &#8220;Cuba has accomplished, through socialism and despite poverty,&#8221; incredible feats, including a better education and health care system than the United States.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>D\u00edaz-Canel, who took over this year as president and Communist Party first secretary from Ra\u00fal Castro, has shut down the internet, deployed anti-riot squads against protesters, and arrested dissenters. On July 13, Cuban police <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/cuban-police-arrest-regime-critic-during-live-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrested<\/a> a regime critic at her home in the middle of a live interview.<\/p>\n<p>Hannah-Jones, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/nikole-hannah-jones-byline-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not written<\/a> for the <i>New York Times<\/i> in more than a year, is best known for creating the paper&#8217;s 1619 Project, a revisionist history series on America&#8217;s founding that has come under fire from prominent historians for inaccuracies. In February, she also <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/nikole-hannah-jones-scrubs-social-media-after-doxxing-free-beacon-reporter\/\">doxxed<\/a> a <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> reporter who tried to reach out to her for comment regarding Donald McNeil&#8217;s ouster from the <em>Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media New York Times journalist credited socialism for communist dictatorship&#8217;s &#8216;equality&#8217;  Karl Salzmann \u2022 July 19, 2021 1:30 pm New York Times journalist and 1619 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}