Early this morning, I received a text message from a Black female friend who works in the Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE) industry. My friend presented me with a letter of support for Harvard University President Claudine Gay from Black Alumni of Harvard. I do not support sinking ships as a general proposition.
I could say many things in response to an Ask to sign the letter on racial grounds. I will say few things.
I have resigned from Blackness, so I will not sign the draft letter due to shared race. I resigned from Blackness because the Harvard Club of San Diego denied me a platform to talk about race because “I might deviate from dogma.” Letters in Black and White: A New Correspondence on Race in America, pages 315-317
It is ironic I received the draft letter to support President Gay. President Gay was responsible for the termination of a black residential tutor at the College on ideological reasons. Gay was behind the removal of Harvard Law School Professor Ronald Sullivan as Faculty Dean of Winthrop House because black law professor Sullivan, as a matter of moral conscience, believed disgraced Harvey Weinstein deserved legal protection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_S._Sullivan_Jr.
Professor Sullivan is up there with John Adams in my book as a lawyer of moral courage.
Gay sought the removal of tenure from black economics professor Roland Fryer, Jr. because Professor Fryer discovered, and published, the truth about his findings that the narrative of white cops killings of young black men was a falsehood. The data did not lie. Professor Fryer refused to lie about his data. Gay sought to terminate Fryer’s career and livelihood. For Fryer’s telling of the truth, Gay became a terminator of Fryer’s academic career. Fryer is the top black professor at Harvard. He survived the (im)moral crusade of Gay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_G._Fryer_Jr.
I have broken bread with Professor Fryer. He is a man of moral integrity. Harvard needs more truth tellers like Fryer.
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Professor Gay is not a truth teller. She plagiarized her PhD thesis in my opinion. She needs to go.
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I will not be signing the letter from Black alumni in support of President Gay.
Long live Veritas! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veritas
Professor Roland Fryer, Jr., Economics Department, Harvard University