Nikole Hannah-Jones
In an indication of what was to come, the founder of the
New York Times' 1619 Project penned a lengthy racist screed attacking all white people in 1995.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, the lead essayist on
New York Times Magazine's 1619 Project, wrote a letter to the editor in Notre Dame's
The Observer stating that "the white race is the biggest murderer, rapist, pillager, and thief of the modern world."
Hannah-Jones claimed that the actions of European settlers and explorers such as Christopher Columbus were "acts of devils" and likens them to Hitler.
"[The whites] lasting monument was the destruction and enslavement of two races of people," Hannah-Jones wrote.
Hannah-Jones claims Africans arrived in North America long before Europeans, but that unlike Europeans, Africans befriended and traded with the indigenous people. She claims pyramids in Mexico are a symbol of said friendship.
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