24: 1619 Project with Nicole Hannah-Jones

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🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Jen welcomes creator of The 1619 Project Nicole Hannah-Jones to illuminate how she has used the Black experience to revolutionize our understanding of our history across multiple mediums. While explaining her process, they discuss the power of the personal story to connect to the past, how The 1619 Project uses the collective to take back control of our past from elites and those in power. They also lay out how our country’s continuum of systemic injustice divides us, undermines our democracy, and stops us from reaching true equality. To fight back, they share the successes of the Black press, rebuke both-sidesism and the tendency to defer to power, and call for the courage to tell the truth.

Get More From This Week’s Guests:

Nicole Hannah-Jones:
Twitter | NYT | Howard University | Center for Journalism & Democracy | Instagram | Hulu’s The 1619 Project | Ida B. Wells Society | Author

Get More From Jennifer Rubin:
Twitter | WaPo | Author of “Resistance: How Women Saved Democracy From Donald Trump”

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Jen Rubin, and this is Jen Rubin's Green Room.
0:14.5	We talk on this program about several themes. One is race, another is the failure of journalism, another is our moment of
0:27.2	a democratic threat that is posed by a party that has given up on democracy, that has given up
0:33.6	on objective reality. And rarely do we have a way of kind of tying all of those
0:40.1	disparate trends together. And in fact, there is a way in which they connect. And our guest today
0:48.6	has done more than any other person I'm aware to understand how race, how the mainstream media,
0:57.5	how history, how democracy are interacting at this specific moment in time.
1:03.6	And let's be honest, we are at an absolute danger point.
1:08.2	We are 13 months away from an election in which the guy who tried to overthrow
1:13.6	the last election is going to be on the ballot and could possibly win. When we say it out loud,
1:20.2	I still find it mind-boggling that we could be in this position, but that is true.
1:24.8	We're in a position where one party has given up on governance, has given up on trying to be responsive to the voters. And so we are really at a precarious point. And unfortunately, our government and even Democrats don't seem to be fully aware of the threat, and worse, the mainstream media does not, and is, I would argue, compounding the problem with a false sense of objectivity, a false sense of balance, a feigned refusal to understand what Trump and his movement is all about.
2:05.3	So I think the person to help us make sense of this is the author of the 1619 project,
2:12.5	the really groundbreaking work that took us back to the origins of America long before 1776 and really traces
2:20.5	the way in which race has always defined America, its high points, its low points, and how we
2:29.0	come to terms with our past, which is really a monumental question that is more appropriate now than ever.
2:37.9	So I'm delighted to have on the program, Nicole Hannah-Jones.
2:43.0	And without further ado, Nicole, welcome to the show.
2:46.3	Thank you so much.
2:47.9	It's great to have you here.
2:50.2	Your 1619 was really a, I think, historic
2:54.4	breakthrough in both history and in political debate. But today I specifically want to focus
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