Cornell Opening ‘Center for Racial Justice’ That Will Push More DEI Policies
“Something has gone very wrong at Cornell”
Left wing activists at the school pushed for this and of course they got what they wanted. Professor Jacobson is quoted in the story.
FOX News reports:
DEI refuses to DIE. Just look at Cornell’s new Center for Racial Justice
Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania might be momentarily off their footing, but far from retreating, the Ivy League Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) agenda is barreling ahead. Cornell University is set to debut its new Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures, committed to enforcing DEI across the faculty, administration and student body.
The center is designed to be “a permanent, institutionally-supported unit” to tackle “the anti-Black racism” that is apparently “raging” at Cornell, in America, and across the world. Far from looking toward the future, as the name suggests, the center is geared toward cartoonish interpretations of the past, rooting out the “ongoing effects of a settler colonialism underwritten by principles of white supremacy.”
Some proposed initiatives include pushing ideological allies into positions “in all academic units and decision-making bodies,” money for DEI grants, required DEI classes, and programs for Ivy League students DEI deems marginalized (based on their skin color, not their income or actual life stories).
The new center is the brainchild of aggressive left-wing student activists, who used George Floyd’s death to achieve a list of political demands that were years in the making. Those include establishing an “Alternative Justice Board” to punish fellow students and student organization who run afoul of DEI, university funding for Black racial activist groups, disarming and defunding the campus police, and even firing 40-year Cornell professor David Collum. Collum’s thought crime was tweeting in support of police. Activists wanted him replaced with a black professor…
“Something has gone very wrong at Cornell,” Cornell Law professor and Legal Insurrection blogger William A. Jacobson explained to Fox News’ Laura Ingraham in October. “[E]verything is viewed through race… And so we’ve got a toxic atmosphere,” he explained. “But the administration and the Board of Trustees don’t seem to understand what they have created.”
While the flurry of radical activity was initially touted in press releases, the administration went quiet on the new center after the Oct. 7 slaughter of Israeli civilians exposed mass pro-Hamas sympathies in the Ivy League DEI left, including on Cornell’s campus.
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It’s just the further infiltration of, and take-over of, previously respected American “name brands”
by Qatar and Hamas and others who despise America
And , like a waterlogged foundation of a building … the building will eventually crumble.
Meanwhile, Jewish hostages continue to get raped by these same people
Has Qatar or Iran ever dissociated themselves from sharia-endorsed rape?
Ice
Hey Cornell — helluva job
Is Cornell aware?
We in the U.S. have a Justice System.
There’s a civil branch, and a criminal branch.
To permit yourselves to be influenced by money from people who openly support rape and mutilation of girls, in front of their families … What is wrong with you?
Good heavens, Cornell: Think!! What are you doing??
Cornell has become woke joke, like harvard. Affirmative Action admissions was only supposed to level the playing field for blacks, with regard to legacy admissions who were presumed to be mostly white and wealthy and well connected. It was always assumed they were less qualified, but the college needed to balance the scales with side-door admissions. Those types dont deserve anything more than 4 year diploma with “C” grade average. Its wrong to inflate their grades, give them advanced degree, make them professor. The claudine gay debacle isn’t limited to harvard, top tier colleges are rotting from within from the woke hive mind virus.
Cornell is lost. As an alumnus and long-time donor I have now abandoned the ship.