Power Line's Steven Hayward reports Ibram X. Kendi's race-baiting Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University is laying off 40 percent of its staff, citing lack of donations. One of those being laid off, BU professor Phillipe Copeland, has written the following:
Too much of higher education responded to the so-called “racial reckoning” with theatre, therapy, and marketing masquerading as institutional commitment.
Hayward responds from within academia:
I completely agree that these “black studies/anti-racism” programs are academic obscenities. And it has long been apparent to me that most academics, even—maybe especially liberals ones—know the various radical “studies” departments are unserious and second rate, and blacks and other minorities thrown this bone know it, and it fuels their rage even further.
It is ironic being hired as window-dressing to protect the institutional core from external (and internal) criticism tends to leave many of those individuals angry and bitter. Perhaps eventually we can drop the charade?
