Author Nikole Hannah-Jones took an unsurprising stance on the topic of Harvard’s embattled president Claudine Gay, ripping into “racist” calls for her to be fired.
The creator of the controversial 1619 Project argued on CNN about the furor over Gay’s congressional testimony in which she would not state that calls for the genocide of Jews at Harvard should constitute a form of harassment and are a violation of the school rules.
The backlash against Gay and the demands for her to resign or be fired are just a diversion, according to Hannah-Jones who claimed the real issue is the color of the Harvard president’s skin.
In response to CNN’s Abby Phillip asking about claims that Gay secured and held her position as Harvard president due to her being black, Hannah-Jones responded, “Well, it’s racist.”
“I mean, we have — no one has produced a shred of evidence that shows that the sole qualification that President Gay had was that she is a black woman,” she added.
Pulitzer Prize winning author @nhannahjones on conservatives who say Harvard President Claudine Gay only kept her job because she’s Black.
“It’s racist. It defies logic. And the fact that of those presidents, who all came under intense scrutiny, that only one has been called… pic.twitter.com/hyyrdRXoKL
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) December 13, 2023
“That’s insulting. It defies logic. And the fact that, of those presidents, who all came under intense scrutiny, that only one has been called out as a so-called diversity or affirmative action hire just speaks of a black woman of this country have gone through historically and continue to go through every day,” Hannah-Jones claimed.
The whole antisemitism argument against Gay is just a “guise” against racial equity, according to the left-wing author.
“They’re using the guise of pretending that this is about concern over anti-Semitism, which is, of course, something that all of us should be concerned about,’ she asserted. ‘It’s really just further their propaganda campaign against racial equity,” she told Phillip.
Harvard board ‘reaffirms support’ for embattled Harvard president to stay amid allegations of antisemitism, plagiarism https://t.co/aAWwuwAyW0 via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) December 12, 2023
“When you think about the fact that Harvard, this nation’s oldest university, had about a 370-year explicit racial quota of only hiring white men to be the president, it’s laughable to think that the first-ever black woman following that unbroken line of white racial quotas is the one who’s unqualified,” Hannah-Jones asserted.
“I mean, this is kind of the beauty of how racism works. If you are black and you don’t achieve, if you don’t succeed at the highest echelon, it’s because you’re lazy and you’re not smart enough,” she added. “If you do achieve and you do succeed and you do rise to the top of your profession, it’s because you didn’t deserve it.”
Hannah-Jones went on to attack Christopher Rufo and other critics.
“Chris Rufo is not a serious person. He is a person who has been trying to attack what he calls DEI, but really any efforts to address racial inequality,” she said of the senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research who called out Gay for alleged plagiarism.
“He has explicitly said that he does propaganda work. And the fact that we’re all talking about it means that he’s being successful,” Hannah-Jones continued, before singing the praises of Gay and her qualifications for the job.
“She’s clearly qualified and really, I’m perplexed to try to figure out what does race have to do with the criticism that she hasn’t handled the protests on her campus correctly,” she said. “They just see this as an opening to further soul racial division and to further their campaign of trying to attack any efforts around diversity and anti-racism.”
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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