Nikole Hannah-Jones praises a cop-killer and rewrites history in the New York Times

New York Times writer and Howard University prof Nikole Hannah-Jones has agelong been arguable arsenic a writer who expressly rejects objectivity and neutrality successful journalism. That was astir evident successful her "1619 Project," which was ridiculed by historians and instrumentality professors successful claiming that slavery was the driving unit down American independence. Nevertheless, the task was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, contempt glaring humanities errors. Yet, this month, Hannah-Jones is backmost connected the pages of the New York Times, again rewriting history. This time, she is praising cop-killer and 1960s revolutionary Assata Shakur.

Hannah-Jones has been a lightning rod successful her writings, from declaring "all journalism is activism" to spreading conspiracy theories against the police. Yet, mainstream media, including the Times, has tally interference for Hannah-Jones, including the dean of the University of North Carolina trying to unopen down disapproval by reminding a reporter that they indispensable each support Hannah-Jones.

Hannah-Jones’s latest task of humanities revision is simply a sorrowful memorial to Shakur, which shows the aforesaid disregard for facts successful favour of a preferred narrative.

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Born JoAnne Deborah Byron (and aboriginal adopting the names of Joanne Chesimard and Shakur), the convulsive revolutionary was a subordinate of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. In 1977, she killed New Jersey constabulary serviceman Werner Foerster, 34, a U.S. Army Vietnam seasoned who near down a widow and a young son. She aboriginal escaped situation and fled to Cuba, wherever she died earlier this year. In 2005, she was declared a home terrorist. In 2013, the Obama Administration enactment her connected the astir wanted list.

You would cognize small of that from the New York Times column. After all, each journalism is activism, according to Hannah-Jones, and, if the facts bash not acceptable the narrative, the facts person to go.

In her column, Hannah-Jones seems to disregard the condemnation arsenic the effect of an "all-white" jury. What is omitted is that Shakur had a agelong and convulsive transgression record. She was antecedently changeable successful the tummy during what was believed to beryllium a drug-connected transgression astatine the Statler Hilton successful Manhattan.

She was sought for different crimes, including a 1971 slope robbery. When asked, Shakur aboriginal shrugged disconnected specified crimes arsenic a benignant of radical reparations: "There were expropriations, determination were slope robberies."

She was besides linked to a grenade onslaught that injured 2 constabulary officers aft being identified by witnesses. In 1972, she was identified by Monsignor John Powis arsenic 1 of the suspects successful the equipped robbery astatine Our Lady of the Presentation Church successful Brownsville, Brooklyn. During the robbery, the clergyman was told, "We usually conscionable stroke the heads disconnected White men."

She was besides tied to the execution and ambushing of constabulary officers for years earlier she was stopped connected May 2, 1973, connected the New Jersey turnpike by State Trooper James Harper, who was backed up by Trooper Werner Foerster successful a 2nd patrol vehicle. The resulting shootout near Harper wounded and Foerster dead.

Her trials spanned a assortment of charges ranging from slope robbery to kidnapping to attempted execution and different felonies. However, erstwhile determination were acquittals and a mistrial (due to a pregnancy) connected antithetic charges, she was yet convicted of execution earlier her escape.

Yet, the Times and Hannah-Jones brushwood implicit that past to gush astir Shakur and the effort to shield her, adjacent describing the transgression web arsenic akin to the famed strategy utilized to escaped slaves earlier the Civil War: "Shakur had been hidden successful the United States for respective years by a benignant of Underground Railroad."

The Times file bewails however "freedom came with shattering costs for her and her family." Not a azygous enactment of sentiment for the widow and lad that her unfortunate near down successful New Jersey, fto unsocial the different victims successful murders and attacks that she was connected to arsenic portion of the Black Liberation Army.

Of course, specified sentiment is not allowed for existent victims. For example, Hannah-Jones was again published by the New York Times, informing successful a column that memorials to Charlie Kirk are "dangerous."

Hannah-Jones has also chastised other writers for covering shoplifting stories due to the fact that "this is however you legitimize the carceral state."

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Yet, the New York Times is inactive actively progressive successful projects to rewrite past with Hannah-Jones. This is the aforesaid paper that barred columns from Senator Tom Cotton for arguing for the deployment of National Guard troops to quell convulsive riots, but published columns by "Beijing’s enforcer" successful Hong Kong and a University of Rhode Island prof who antecedently defended the execution of a blimpish protester.

It is the aforesaid paper that forced retired a assortment of editors who published opposing viewpoints oregon challenged biased sum and journalistic activism.

The Times file ends with a enactment that is breathtaking successful its ahistorical and amoral message: "Shakur, who saw herself arsenic an escaped slave, died free."

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A convicted murderer and wanted violent died successful 1 of the astir blood-soaked, repressive regimes successful the world… but, Hannah-Jones and the New York Times privation everyone to cognize that she "died free."

That is comforting. As for Werner Foerster, helium conscionable died and was not mentioned erstwhile by sanction successful the Times column.