When the lead author of the 1619 Project said that the American people are making too much of the historic surge in violent crime, MSNBC host Joy Reid agreed, saying that none of her friends had been affected.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Nikole Hannah-Jones of the 1619 Project, who just received tenure at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, began the conversation by chalking up national concerns about the mounting death tolls to media-induced hysteria. She tweeted an ABC News story that number of Americans seeing “crime as an extremely serious problem in the United States is at a more than 20-year high” and added:
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