White Supremacy Narrative Alive and Well On College Campuses, CriticalRace.org Report Reveals
“Everything on the campuses is framed through a racial lens.”
CriticalRace.org, launched in February 2021, is a research group focused on Critical Race Theory (CRT) and its variants, such as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), with unparalleled and authoritative interactive databases documenting the racialization of education, covering over 700 institutions, and cited over 185 times by other media. We are expanding beyond the databases, including using our data to track how schools are rebranding and masking DEI efforts to evade recent court rulings and administrative restrictions.
“White supremacy” is a term defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary to be “the belief that the white race is inherently superior to other races and that white people should have control over people of other races.” While the term has traditionally been associated with white nationalist movements, some members of the modern Democratic Party have applied it more broadly to political opponents who object to certain aspects of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives.
In May 2023, President Joe Biden described white supremacy as the “single most dangerous terrorist threat in our homeland” during his commencement address at the historically Black Howard University.
“Fearless progress toward justice often means ferocious pushback from the oldest and most sinister of forces,” said Biden.
“That’s because hate never goes away. … It only hides under the rocks. And when it’s given oxygen, it comes out from under that rock. And that’s why we know this truth as well: silence is complicity. We cannot remain silent.”
Progressive liberals have accused conservatives of provoking white supremacy, sometimes to dangerous degrees. Among the most notorious examples, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a case study on the topic, concluding that conservative groups like Turning Point USA and its deceased founder, Charlie Kirk, were at the forefront of the push towards white superiority.
Before the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk, the SPLC claimed that Kirk and TPUSA were at the center of the political right, which had “embraced aggressive state and federal power to enforce a social order rooted in white supremacy.”
While there is no evidence that Charlie Kirk’s assassin was inspired by the SPLC report, the broader white supremacy narrative has nonetheless influenced young people’s perceptions, leading them to believe that mainstream American conservatives are actively advocating for white racial superiority.
Which brings us to the current state of white supremacy initiatives on college campuses and the CriticalRace.org report:
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A new @CriticalRaceOrg study exposes 7 colleges and universities that still promote “white supremacy” talking points that bolster the ideology behind racial quotas in admissions.
— Tyler O’Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) July 16, 2026
Major universities have continued to push diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) language, this time in the form of the term ‘white supremacy.’ Research by CriticalRace.org indicates that a number of colleges continue to feature references to “white supremacy” in content presented on their primary university websites.
From departmental statements advocating expanded efforts to counter white supremacy to university-led training initiatives, many institutions are placing greater emphasis on these topics in academic settings.
The private Boston University offers a free course through its School of Social Work titled “Understanding Structural & Institutional Racism,” which includes a main topic on “white supremacy” and aims to help participants “expand [their] knowledge of the interlocking social systems and ideology that are the foundations of racial inequality in our society.”
Another private institution, Loyola University Maryland, issued a “Statement of Solidarity with the BIPOC Community at Loyola and Beyond.” While the statement has been removed from the main website, archived versions show that, as recently as this year, university officials were promoting progressive ideological perspectives in its Philosophy Department.
“The history of the United States is the history of terrorizing and snuffing out Black life through police killings and white supremacist vigilantism that has taken the lives of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks and countless others,” reads the statement.
Public universities show similar patterns as San Diego State University admits to providing students with “accurate knowledge to critique white supremacy and promote social justice” in its College of Arts and Letters’ “Statements of Solidarity.”
The University of Tennessee at Knoxville hosts a particular ‘white supremacy’ education program aimed at children and young adults. The university’s Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature curated a list of books on the topic of anti-racism while stating, “We understand that the ongoing police brutality against Black men, women, and youth is not a new phenomenon, but instead is a current manifestation of long-historied [sic], state-sanctioned racism, anti-Blackness, and white supremacy in this country.”
“White supremacy” is a term that some progressive groups have used to describe prominent conservative political figures and organizations. Before the tragic assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, the now infamous Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) accused Kirk and his organization of leading the white supremacist charge in America. In a May 22, 2025 case study by the SPLC, the controversial group claimed that Charlie Kirk and TPUSA were at the center of the political right which has “embraced aggressive state and federal power to enforce a social order rooted in white supremacy.”
“Turning Point USA and its growing influence on conservative politics is emblematic of this current state,” continued the report.
“TPUSA exploits complicated feelings of insecurity and anxiety to manufacture rage and mobilize support to revive and maintain a white-dominated, male supremacist, Christian social order.”
By promoting this ideology as widespread, even within institutions like U.S. police departments and conservative movements, many universities are fueling a highly polarizing debate that risks radicalizing large portions of college students.
The Daily Signal covered the report:
A new report exposes seven colleges and universities for featuring statements about “white supremacy” that, the report’s authors say, provide the intellectual framework for racial discrimination in admissions, even after a recent Supreme Court ruling invalidated racial quotas.
“Everything on the campuses is framed through a racial lens,” Bill Jacobson, a professor at Cornell Law School and founder of the Legal Insurrection Foundation, told the Daily Signal in an interview Wednesday.
Jacobson founded a website dedicated to exposing critical race theory. CriticalRace.org compiled the list of colleges featuring “white supremacy” statements and exclusively provided it first to the Daily Signal. Jacobson warned that, even though academia is moving away from DEI—short for diversity, equity, and inclusion—many academics remain dedicated to the principles of critical race theory, which his group describes as “a radical ideology that focuses on race as the key to understanding society, and objectifies people based on race.”
“You can close the DEI department, it’s probably going to be called something else,” he said. “At Cornell, DEI is now called ‘Inclusion and Belonging.’” He said the struggle against DEI is a “cultural war as to whether almost the entirety of our education system will be devoted to delegitimizing the United States.”
“Show me a law in the United States that privileges whites over non-whites,” he said. “Bring me a program which, in its eligibility requirements, says only whites can apply. They simply don’t exist.”
He accused critical race theory proponents of treating the country “like it’s still 1956.”
Kemberlee Kaye, managing editor of CriticalRace.org, said that attempting to root out DEI is “almost like a whack-a-mole situation.”
“These institutions have been so deeply captured that it’s not a matter of simply cutting funding to one office and that solves the problem,” she told the Daily Signal. She said colleges and universities are “rebranding things.”
She noted that the Supreme Court struck down race-based admissions in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (2023), and President Donald Trump issued executive orders cracking down on DEI.
“They are deliberately doing this to avoid the DEI executive orders,” Jacobson said.
Below is the list of colleges and universities using “white supremacy” rhetoric featured in the CriticalRace.org report. The Daily Signal reached out to each institution for comment but did not hear back.
1. San Diego State University
San Diego State University’s webpage for “diversity” at the College of Arts and Letters states that the college houses many departments that “help provide students with culturally relevant curricula, critical thinking skills, and accurate knowledge to critique white supremacy and promote social justice.”2. Boston University
Boston University’s School of Social Work: Center for Aging & Disability Education & Research offers a three-step course on “Understanding Structural & Institutional Racism.” The course examines “racial capitalism, white supremacy, and structural and institutional racism” and the influence of “white supremacist ideology” on American society.3. Loyola University Maryland
Loyola University Maryland’s philosophy department released a “statement of solidarity with BIPOC Community at Loyola and Beyond” in 2020, and the page remained on the philosophy department’s website until this year. The statement pledged to “integrate a diversity of texts and viewpoints into our courses that address the moral problems of discrimination and inequality at all levels.”The statement pledged not to “‘whitewash’ the history of white supremacy in the philosophical canon.” The department claimed that “the history of the United States is the history of terrorizing and snuffing out Black life through police killings and white supremacist vigilantism.”
4. San Francisco State University
San Francisco State University’s webpage on “Diversity and Inclusion” mentions the “Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Pedagogies for Inclusive Excellence Institute,” which “builds a community of JEDI protagonists by developing anti-racist pedagogy and dismantling white supremacy in online teaching.”5. University of Tennessee, Knoxville
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature published a webpage titled “Fighting Anti-Black Racism through Story.” This page claims that “the ongoing police brutality against Black men, women, and youth is not a new phenomenon, but instead is a current manifestation of long-histories, state-sanctioned racism, anti-Blackness, and white supremacy in this country.”6. Portland State University
Portland State University’s Multicultural Retention Services department released a statement “in solidarity & action for Black Lives Matter.” The statement claims that “Multicultural Retention Services stands in solidarity with the Black community as an extension of the work we do to combat white supremacy, racism, and anti-blackness.”Multicultural Retention Services claims that specific acts of police brutality “have been a product of white supremacy in this country.”
7. Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
The Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts’ Wellness Strategic Plan includes an “Anti-Discrimination and Anti-Racist Statement.” The program claims that counseling professionals “recognize the importance of taking a stand and offering support by naming and addressing what causes the illness, wounds, and impairment, i.e. systemic racism and white supremacy.”A Hostile Environment
The report also notes that some leftist groups have used the term “white supremacy” to describe conservative political figures—including conservatives on college campuses.
It notes that the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group that gained its reputation by suing Ku Klux Klan organizations into bankruptcy, accused the conservative campus organization Turning Point USA of seeking “to enforce a social order rooted in white supremacy.”
Jacobson told the Daily Signal that, while no evidence shows that the man accused of murdering Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk had been directly influenced by the SPLC, the SPLC’s attack “contributed to the atmosphere” around Kirk’s assassination in September 2025.
“Those sort of accusations are made at Cornell,” he said. “I think the SPLC undoubtedly contributes to the silencing of conservative voices.”
Kaye noted that the SPLC currently faces wire fraud and bank fraud charges for allegedly directing donor funds to the very hate groups the SPLC claims it exists to oppose.
“If we’re looking at white supremacy, the only absolute verifiable examples we have of that in modern times would be the vestiges of the KKK, which we now know are bankrolled by the SPLC,” she quipped.
@KemberleeKaye noted SPLC faces charges for funding the hate it claims it exists to oppose.
“If we’re looking at white supremacy, the only verifiable examples in modern times would be vestiges of the KKK, which are bankrolled by the SPLC.”https://t.co/gSJA75BugM
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— Tyler O’Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) July 16, 2026
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Everything on campus is based on acting white. Study, work, learning.
Two truths about race in America which have nothing to do with white supremacy (so-called),
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The charges of white privilege and systemic racism that are tearing the country apart float free of reality. Two known facts, long since documented beyond reasonable doubt, need to be brought into the open and incorporated into the way we think about public policy: American whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians have different violent crime rates and different means and distributions of cognitive ability. The allegations of racism in policing, college admissions, segregation in housing, and hiring and promotions in the workplace ignore the ways in which the problems that prompt the allegations of systemic racism are driven by these two realities.
What good can come of bringing them into the open? America’s most precious ideal is what used to be known as the American Creed: People are not to be judged by where they came from, what social class they come from, or by race, color, or creed. They must be judged as individuals. The prevailing Progressive ideology repudiates that ideal, demanding instead that the state should judge people by their race, social origins, religion, sex, and sexual orientation.
We on the center left and center right who are the American Creed’s natural defenders have painted ourselves into a corner. We have been unwilling to say openly that different groups have significant group differences. Since we have not been willing to say that, we have been left defenseless against the claims that racism is to blame. What else could it be? We have been afraid to answer. We must. Facing Reality is a step in that direction.
Charles Murray, Facing Reality (2021).
The problem with not considering IQ average differences is that you cut out the only solution, namely acting white. A black with an IQ of 86 will in a perfect world do exactly as well as a white with an IQ of 86, and he’ll do it by acting white. Anything else and he does worse.
Anything is superior to black ghetto culture and its adherents. In fact it doesn’t take much. Certainly it doesn’t require a lack of melanin.
What, exactly, is “white supremacy”? Who is promoting it? Why do I care?
The only group that can be discriminated against without any fear of legal consequences is white, heterosexual males.
Why do you capitalize “black” and not “white?” Why do you capitalize “black” at all? You lose credibility in this topic by doing so. There aren’t many more obvious forms of DEI than this.
To be fair, all but one of these capitalizations occur in quotes from other documents. But there is that one hanging out there…
That’s the one. I’m forgiving of capitalizations in quotes, but would prefer to see the capitalized “black” followed by “sic” in such situations.
As lichau indicted above and within the context of the post “CriticalRace.org compiled the list of colleges featuring “white supremacy” statements “
What really needs to be discovered is who is behind these “statements”. There is a school superintendent that make over 215K annually in small counties of population of 90K. These superintendents across the US are connected to places like Howard University and other organizations. They are directed to incorporate “White Privilege” and “White Supremacy” in to school policy. You are a long ways away from the source of the problem. We are looking at the sick child, not the cause of the sickness. The Democrats reach in to this network to promote this. It almost needs to be burned down and rebuild to make it better. More conservative universities might give us a chance.
Conservatives are out “… to enforce a social order rooted in white supremacy.”
They mean the Constitution, which they define as white supremacist because it was written by whites.
Pure anti-white racism, and they call themselves “anti-racist.” Perverts.
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