Dr. Claudine Gay, the first Black president of Harvard University, resigned following a what many saw as a targeted attack on her character and qualifications.
MSNBC’s Symone Sanders condemned the pushback against Gay, emphasizing the impact of conservative activists.
“I’d like to take a few moments to talk about Harvard University president Dr. Claudine Gay, she resigned last week after drawing criticism from her testimony at a congressional hearing on campus antisemitism, along with allegations of plagiarism,” Symone Sanders said. (Trending: Epstein’s Brother Finally Breaks His Silence)
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“Dr. Gay, along with two other university presidents provided a legal answer to a very human question about whether calls for the genocide of Jews violated the student code of conduct at their schools.”
“Frankly, every answer that each president gave was terrible and they were poorly prepped beforehand. Frankly, they were answers that were counseled to give.”
“Soon after the hearing last month, literally the next day, Gay apologized, and Harvard issued a statement of support for Gay, that they had confidence that she could heal the campus community.”
“Conservative activists unleashed a pressure campaign to oust gay, the called her mediocre, unqualified, and an affirmative action hire. And they falsely called her our for plagiarism. Let’s be clear, Harvard has never accused doctor claudine gay of plagiarizing anything, she stands by her work but offered to make minor changes to improper citations. That folks, is not plagiarism.”
“But Gay’s support started to crumble and she made the decision to resign saying, quote, ‘After consultation with members of the corporation, it has become clear that it is in the best interest of Harvard for me to resign so that our community can navigate this moment of extraordinary challenge, put the focus on institution, rather than any individual.'”
“Harvard decided it was unwilling to weather the storm of criticism being brought to Dr. Gay. Gay, who became the first black president in the second woman to lead the university and all of harvard’s 387-year history, published an op-ed and in the New York Times, she wrote, ‘It’s not lost on me that I make an ideal canvas for projecting every anxiety about the generational and demographic changes of American campuses, a black woman selected to lead a storied institution.'”
“Claudine gay was in the top job when the most prestigious universities in the world, this may come as a shocker to some folks out there, black women don’t get handed anything without qualifications, especially the president of one of the most prestigious university in the world. If anything, we need to go above and beyond to prove our worth.”
“As women, especially women of color, especially black women, we need to be unicorns to break glass ceilings, just to earn half as much as our white male counterparts. And in her op-ed, she issued a wake up call for America, writing, ‘Having now seen how quickly the truth can become a casualty amid controversy, I urge a broader caution, at tense moments every one of us must be more skeptical than ever of the loudest and most extreme voices in our culture, however well organized or well connected they might be.'”
“What happened to Claudine Gay, it’s chilling, it’s part of a larger war on diversity, on history, on black people in this country, people of color. And if one of the most prestigious universities in the world caved to pressure from the conservative activist mob, who will stand up to them than? If our institutions will not stand up firm in the face of lies, and targeting, and vitriol, then who will?”
“This is a moment where institutions, individuals, people, must be willing to stand strong against the storm of targeted attacks from political extremists. They are going to keep coming. They will not stop,” Sanders concluded.
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