Obsessed With Race

Sadly, but predictably, one of America’s leading race baiters, Al Sharpton, launched into a tirade, suggesting this was an effort by racist forces to take down a leading black woman. Sharpton declared, “President Gay’s resignation is . . . an attack on every black woman in this country who’s put a crack in the glass ceiling.”

Well, the first of these female university presidents to step down was a white woman, University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill. So, what’s up with that, Al?

Not to be outdone, Ibram X. Kendi stopped just short of suggesting that Claudine Gay was the victim of a lynching, writing, “Racist mobs won’t stop until they topple all black people from positions of power and influence who are not reinforcing the structure of racism.” 

CNN, MSNBC and other left-wing outlets repeated Kendi’s narrative over and over again.

Listening to these unhinged leftists, you’d be convinced that Gay’s resignation had nothing to do with Jew-hatred being tolerated at Harvard and nothing to do with her violation of a central tenet of academic scholarship. It was all about the color of her skin.

This is proof that not only does anti-Semitism reign supreme among the academic left, but that for much of the progressive left, Martin Luther King’s dream is dead. His legacy and achievements have been murdered by the neo-Marxist left.

Reverend King would have led the charge for Gay’s firing. He adamantly opposed anti-Semitism and strongly supported Israel. He persistently said to America, “Don’t judge us by the color of our skin. Judge us by the content of our character.”

That’s what just happened at Harvard, and the left is furious. Those race baiters masquerading as civil rights leaders are furious. And Martin Luther King would be ashamed of them.