https://townhall.com/tipsheet/carson...-cuba-n2592738
“1619 Project” founder and
newly-tenured Howard University professor Nikole Hannah-Jones said that Cuba’s communist regime has brought about the greatest racial equality of any country in the Western Hemisphere.
Hannah-Jones, a journalist for the New York Times,
made the comments in 2019 during a Vox Media podcast hosted by Vox editor-in-chief Ezra Klein. Klein has taken trips sponsored by the Chinese Communist Party in exchange for his “
favorable coverage” of the regime.
“Cuba has the least inequality between black and white people of any place really in the hemisphere,” Hannah-Jones told Klein on the podcast. “I mean the Caribbean — most of the Caribbean it’s hard to count because the white population in a lot of those countries is very, very small, they’re countries run by black folks, but in places that are truly at least biracial countries, Cuba actually has the least inequality, and that’s largely due to socialism, which I’m sure no one wants to hear.”
Before making the comments, Hannah-Jones had laughed and said she was “no expert” on international race relations. Hannah-Jones is the main author of The New York Times’ “
1619 Project,” a widely discredited revision of American history which asserts that slavery, not British tyranny, was the main motive behind the American Revolution.
Hannah-Jones’ comments understandably received immense backlash from conservative figures online. Among them was Mercedes Schlapp, a former director of strategic communications in former President Donald Trump's White House. She called upon Hannah-Jones to “go to Cuba and stay in Cuba.”
Of course she is not going to leave, but if Hannah-Jones were to move her life 90 miles south of the Florida Keys, she probably wouldn’t mind all that much. Hannah-Jones visited Cuba in 2008, and returned to pen an
op-ed in The Oregonian titled “The Cuba We Don’t Know.” In the piece, she praised Cuba’s high literacy rate, low HIV infection rate, and government-run healthcare system.
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In making her “equality” comments, Hannah-Jones failed to account for the fact that people of all races enjoy a significantly higher standard of living in the United States than in Cuba.
According to the
Economic Policy Institute, White American households earned an average of $76,057 in 2019, compared to $46,073 for Black American households. Racial discrepancies are not reported in Cuba’s official income statistics — inserting uncertainty into Hannah-Jones’ “economic inequality” argument — but its median annual salary of 242,400 pesos amounts to just $10,100 in the U.S.
When even the poorest racial group in the U.S. earns more than 450 percent than the average Cuban citizen, any reasonable contention of greater “equality” must go out the window. Equality, in any form, is meaningless if it exists alongside economic misery and political instability.
hannah-jones is a CRT pusher, history revisionist, and a race-baiter and herself a militant hater of all Caucasians.
yet this haughty major 'Leader' of teh fascist DPST party, agenda, and idiotology - wants to turn America into the totalitarian , poverty wracked dictatorship - in which the nomenklatura are so much more 'equal' than the proletariat.
H_J wants Cuba as a 'model' for America - with grinding poverty, hunger, lousy schools and medical care, and no freedom .
a situation that sits just fine with H-J - she should go to Cuba/Venezuela - and stay in her'marxist paradise".
Good riddance to One who hates the 1964 Voter Rights act and Civil Rights act and MLK Jr. - and all he preached and stood for.
Nikole Hannah-Jones: Cuba Is the ‘Most Equal’ Country in the Western Hemisphere
