Journalist and 1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah-Jones met with ousted Harvard president Claudine Gay and insisted the university renew affirmative action during a symposium on the legacy of slavery.
Hannah-Jones delivered a keynote speech and met with the ex-president, whom she previously defended against critics, at the Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery Initiative 2024 conference on Tuesday.
The 1619 Project founder recommended implementing a “lineage-based affirmative action program” based on ancestral ties to slavery during her speech, The Harvard Crimson reported.
The Supreme Court decided in a By 6 votes to 2 – Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recused himself – Harvard’s admissions policy should also be overturned in a decision that sent shock waves across the country in June.
The move ended a decades-old “affirmative action” policy designed to increase the number of black and Hispanic students at universities.
1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah-Jones met with ousted Harvard president Claudine Gay and said they were both “insubordinates.”
Hannah-Jones called on the Ivy League to reconstitute affirmative action for descendants of slaves at the 2024 Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery Initiative conference.
The case against Harvard argued that Asian American students have been specifically unlawfully disadvantaged by affirmative action policies because, despite earning high grades, they score lower on the wave “d scale.” Harvard’s ‘personal evaluation’, particularly in terms of ‘likeability’ and ‘positive personality’, compared to Asian American students. other candidates.
The founder of the 1619 Project criticized “rich white people” in the Supreme Court for the decision.
“A white elite majority deciding, after just 50 years of weak and half-hearted affirmative action efforts, that they would be the ones to decide that enough had been done to remedy centuries of explicit racial exclusion against black people, “is the most American decision ever seen,” she wrote on Twitter after the ruling.
“Let me make it simpler,” she added. “Rich white people think THEY are the ones who can say that society has done enough to alleviate the ravages of 350 years of explicit discrimination against black people, which is the most American thing of all.
“I was going to write an essay about it, but why bother. (Also, Clarence Thomas is actually irrelevant here. So thanks but no thanks)’ she concluded.
Hannah-Jones posted a photo with Gay at the event, who was forced to resign after a barrage of criticism over accusations of plagiarism and his lukewarm response to anti-Semitism on campus.
“The epitome of everything they fear.” I met Dr. Claudine Gay today. Both of us: rebellious, she said.
Hannah-Jones told CNN’s Abby Phillip that “it’s racist” to call for Gay’s resignation because of his controversial remarks during a congressional hearing on anti-Semitism.
“They claim this is a concern about anti-Semitism, which is, of course, something we should all be concerned about,” she said. “It actually just reinforces their propaganda campaign against racial equity.” »
Gay testified before Congress and clashed with New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik in a hostile back-and-forth.
Stefanik asked the former Harvard president: “Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard’s rules on bullying and harassment?” at his university.
The founder of the 1619 Project criticized “rich white people” in the Supreme Court for the decision that ended affirmative action in college admissions.
Hannah-Jones said ‘it’s racist’ to call for Gay’s resignation over his controversial remarks during a congressional hearing on anti-Semitism
In response, Gay said: “It can be, depending on the context.”
Hannah-Jones insisted during her speech that the Ivy League give “a substantial amount” of its $50.7 billion endowment to historically black colleges and universities.
“All the HBCUs combined don’t have the endowments that Harvard has,” she said.
Gay’s predecessor, Lawrence Bacow, committed $100 million for an endowment and other measures aimed at closing the educational, social and economic gaps that are the legacy of slavery and racism in 2022.
During the event, Hannah-Jones was informed that Harvard had given more than $2 million to its descendants of slaves, which she called “insulting.”
“A real investment would be hundreds of millions more,” she said.
Hannah-Jones told The Crimson she was interested in “how funds are spent and distributed.”
“If you’re serious about recognition and trying to fix it, transparency is the number one thing, because why would people trust an institution with such a history to do the right thing,” he said. she declared.
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