{"id":596966,"date":"2021-07-19T13:36:01","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T17:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=596966"},"modified":"2021-07-19T13:36:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T17:36:02","slug":"1619-projects-nikole-hannah-jones-calls-cuba-the-most-equal-multiracial-country-in-our-hemisphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/1619-projects-nikole-hannah-jones-calls-cuba-the-most-equal-multiracial-country-in-our-hemisphere\/","title":{"rendered":"1619 Project\u2019s Nikole Hannah-Jones Calls Cuba \u2018The Most Equal, Multiracial Country In Our Hemisphere\u2019"},"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\">28<\/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%2F1619-projects-nikole-hannah-jones-calls-cuba-the-most-equal-multiracial-country-in-our-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=596966&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Nikole-Hannah-Jones.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>New York Times journalist and 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones called Cuba \u201cthe most equal, multiracial country in our hemisphere.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a 2019 interview with Vox co-founder Ezra Klein unearthed by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/breaking\/1619-project-founder-praises-cuban-equality-due-to-socialism\/\"><span>The National Pulse<\/span><\/a><span>, Hannah-Jones lauded socialism as a factor behind Cuba\u2019s purported equality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAre there candidates right now or even just places that you think have a viable and sufficiently ambitious integration agenda, and if so, what is it?\u201d Klein asked Hannah-Jones. After noting that she is \u201cdefinitely not an expert on race relations internationally,\u201d she alleged that \u201cif you want to see the most equal, multiracial democ\u2026 it\u2019s not a democracy \u2014 the most equal, multi-racial country in our hemisphere, it would be Cuba.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cCuba has the least inequality between black and white people of any place really in the hemisphere,\u201d she added. \u201cI mean the Caribbean \u2014 most of the Caribbean, it\u2019s hard to count because the white population in a lot of those countries is very, very small, they\u2019re countries run by black folks, but in places that are truly at least biracial countries, Cuba actually has the least inequality, and that\u2019s largely due to socialism, which I\u2019m sure no one wants to hear.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Cuban regime, however, has long been recognized as one that favors white Cubans.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/22\/world\/americas\/cuba-leaders-black-officials-raul-castro.html\"><span>The New York Times<\/span><\/a><span> reported three years ago:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p><i><span>The Cuban government under the Castros has historically been viewed as one made up mainly of white men, especially those of advanced age. Although it has generally had at least one Afro-Cuban in a high-ranking position, cynics dismissed them as symbolic figures.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/minorityrights.org\/minorities\/afro-cubans\/\"><span>Minority Rights Group International<\/span><\/a><span> confirms:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"22\">\n<p><i><span>Yet, however radical the assault on institutional racism, little was achieved in eliminating racial discrimination. Attempts by intellectuals to raise the issue of racism in revolutionary Cuba were harshly dealt with in the 1960s, and the government insisted that it had eliminated racial discrimination.&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>On various occasions, Castro explicitly condemned racism and affirmed his government\u2019s commitment to equality. However, critics alleged that educational policy and official culture remained strongly Euro-centric. Afro-Cubans were not, for example, widely represented in the higher echelons of the ruling Communist Party or in the upper levels of the civil service or state industries. And, with few exceptions, Afro-Cuban women have not yet reached the highest professional strata.&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Hannah-Jones \u2014 who won a Pulitzer Prize for the introductory essay of the 1619 Project \u2014 was recently the subject of controversy as trustees at the University of North Carolina <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/unc-chapel-hill-grants-nikole-hannah-jones-tenure-after-backlash\"><span>weighed<\/span><\/a><span> the possibility of hiring her as a tenured journalism professor. After much deliberation, the university offered Hannah-Jones tenure; nevertheless, she rejected the offer in favor of a position at Howard University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the introductory essay, Hannah-Jones <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/article?id=16123\"><span>expressed<\/span><\/a><span> ire toward her father for flying an American flag at their childhood home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI was deeply embarrassed by this outward show of patriotism from my father,\u201d Hannah-Jones said. \u201cI understood that Black Americans were still second-class citizens. This was a man who was born on a cotton plantation in apartheid Mississippi, one of the smartest men that I knew but who had never had any real opportunities in this country. And yet, here he was exhibiting patriotism. He was a veteran.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times journalist and 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones called Cuba \u201cthe most equal, multiracial country in our hemisphere.\u201dIn a 2019 interview with Vox co-founder Ezra Klein unearthed by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-596966","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\/596966","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596966\/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=596966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}