At the beginning of this month, in a letter to the “Princeton community,” university president Christopher Eisgruber wrote that “systemic racism at Princeton and beyond” needs to be addressed:
In June, I wrote to you as America entered a profound national reckoning with racism. That reckoning is at once painful, because the harms done by systemic racism have been exposed so starkly, and promising, because we are seeing widespread and urgent desire to take action to achieve a more just society.
With that goal in mind, I charged my Cabinet in June to develop plans to combat systemic racism at Princeton and beyond. In my letter, I invited suggestions from all of you, and many individuals and groups responded. I am grateful for your input, and I write now with an update about our progress.
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Racism and the damage it does to people of color nevertheless persist at Princeton as in our society, sometimes by conscious intention but more often through unexamined assumptions and stereotypes, ignorance or insensitivity, and the systemic legacy of past decisions and policies.
Now it looks as if somebody might have stepped on his own “systemic racism” rake:
The Education Department just informed Princeton that it’s under formal investigation following the president’s declaration that racism is “embedded” in the university. If true, that would violate the Civil Rights Act, rendering it ineligible for federal $.https://t.co/CIJS0fDzXE
— Tiana Lowe (@TianaTheFirst) September 17, 2020
D’OH!
In response to the President of Princeton declaring the school to be racist, the Department of Education will investigate (educations that racially discriminate violate the 1964 Civil Rights Act) https://t.co/H3GbatsRk0
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) September 17, 2020
Is there any way we can get the entire Ivy League and other inequality-reproducing institutions to follow Princeton’s noble example and declare themselves something that causes them to lose all federal funding?
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) September 17, 2020
Is it possible for somebody to out-woke himself? Apparently:
This is just the best. https://t.co/ZhsNfCJ8fW
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 17, 2020
This is absolutely delicious. https://t.co/16XvONd4oW
— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) September 17, 2020
Wouldn’t it be amazing if we got to shutter the universities based on their own declarations of their alleged “systemic racism”? https://t.co/hFgSZxPMgc
— David Reaboi (@davereaboi) September 17, 2020
Glad to see our public officials rooting out systemic racism wherever it may be found https://t.co/9hliVibt6o
— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) September 17, 2020
— semite, yo (@sarahbellumd) September 17, 2020
Pass the popcorn!
