1619 Project author Nikole Hannah-Jones poses with ‘unbowed’ ex-Harvard boss Claudine Gay during visit to college where she called for it to re-enact affirmative action for descendants of slaves

Journalist and founder of the 1619 Project Nikole Hannah-Jones met with deposed Harvard President Claudine Gay and urged the university to repeat affirmative action during a symposium on the legacy of slavery.

Hannah-Jones gave a keynote speech and met the ex-president, whom she previously defended against critics, at the Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery Initiative 2024 conference on Tuesday.

The founder of the 1619 Project recommended during her remarks the implementation of “an ancestry-based affirmative action program,” based on ancestral ties to slavery. The Harvard Crimson.

The Supreme Court has in a In a 6-2 vote — with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson rebuffing — that Harvard’s admissions policy should also be struck down in a decision that sent shockwaves nationwide in June.

The ruling ended decades of “affirmative action” policies intended to increase the number of black and Hispanic students at colleges.

Hannah-Jones called on the Ivy League to reenact affirmative action for descendants of slaves, 2024 Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery Initiative conference

The case against Harvard argued that Asian-American students in particular have been illegally disadvantaged by its affirmative action policy. The judges agreed that despite receiving high grades, they scored lower on Harvard’s vague “personal rating scale,” especially in the areas of “likeability” and “positive personality,” compared to other applicants.

The founder of the 1619 Project sued “rich white people” in the Supreme Court over this decision.

“An elite, white majority, after only fifty years of weak, half-hearted efforts at affirmative action, determining that they are the ones deciding that enough has been done to address centuries of explicit racial exclusion of black people is the most American statement ever . she wrote on Twitter after the ruling.

“Let me make it simpler,” she added. “Rich white people thinking that THEY are the ones who can say that society has done enough to alleviate the devastation of 350 years of explicit discrimination against black people is the most American thing of all.

‘I wanted to write an essay about it, but why bother at all? (Also Clarence Thomas isn’t really relevant here. So thanks, but no thanks),” she concluded.

Hannah-Jones posted a photo with Gay from the event, which was forced to quit after a barrage of criticism over plagiarism allegations and her lukewarm response to anti-Semitism on campus.

‘The embodiment of everything they fear. Today Dr. Met Claudine Gay. Both of us: unbowed,” she said.

Hannah-Jones told CNN’s Abby Phillip that it is “racist” to call for Gay’s resignation over her controversial comments during a Congressional hearing on anti-Semitism.

“They’re using the guise of pretending that this is about concerns about anti-Semitism, which is something we should all be concerned about,” she said. “It’s really just an addition to their propaganda campaign against racial equality.”

Gay testified before Congress and had a hostile back and forth with New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik.

Stefanik asked the ex-Harvard president, “Does the call for genocide of the Jews violate Harvard’s rules on bullying and harassment?” at her university.

The founder of the 1619 Project denounced ‘rich white people’ at the Supreme Court over the decision that ended affirmative action in college admissions

Hannah-Jones said it is racist to call for Gay’s resignation over her controversial comments during a Congressional hearing on anti-Semitism

In response, Gay said, “That may be true, depending on the context.”

Hannah-Jones urged during her speech that the Ivy League donate “a substantial amount” of its $50.7 billion endowment to historically black colleges and universities.

“All HBCUs together don’t just have Harvard’s endowments,” she said.

Gay’s predecessor, Lawrence Bacow, has pledged $100 million for an endowment fund and other measures to close the educational, social and economic gaps left by slavery and racism by 2022.

During the event, Hannah-Jones was told that Harvard has given more than $2 million to 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 the money is spent and distributed.”

“If you’re serious about recognition and trying to achieve recovery, transparency is the most important thing because why would people trust an institution with this history to do the right thing,” she said.