Betsy DeVos Calls Princeton’s Bluff
The Department of Education has informed Princeton University that it is under investigation following the school president’s declaration that racism was “embedded” in the institution.
President Christopher L. Eisgruber published an open letter earlier this month claiming that “[r]acism and the damage it does to people of color persist at Princeton” and that “racist assumptions” are “embedded in structures of the University itself.”
According to a letter the Department of Education sent to Princeton that was obtained by the Washington Examiner, such an admission from Eisgruber raises concerns that Princeton has been receiving tens of millions of dollars of federal funds in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which declares that “no person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
Eisgruber’s letter branding the 274 year-old university racist came after a summer of unrest rife with race riots and an open letter from hundreds of Princeton faculty members who wrote, “Anti-Black racism has a visible bearing upon Princeton’s campus makeup.” The admission was followed by dozens of “anti-racist” policy change demands. Among them were calls for select faculty race quotas and to “reconsider” the use of standardized testing for admissions.
Now, the Education Department has sent a formal records request as they pursue their investigation. Their main point of contention is whether Princeton has lied to the public with their marketing and to the Department in their promise to not uphold racist standards in accordance with receiving federal funds.
If Trump is re-elected, I hope he uses the executive branch to go to war on wokeness in all these institutions. Call their bluffs. If mandarins like Chris Eisgruber really believed their cant about systemic racism, they would resign tomorrow to renounce their privilege. But these powerful white people never do. These fortunate sons and daughters just want to make less powerful white people, and their children, pay the cost of bearing their own liberal guilt.
Good for Betsy DeVos. A superb example of trolling.
UPDATE: Ha ha!
Virtue signaling: Even our institution is plagued by systemic racism, but if you take our words seriously enough to hold us accountable, then you are being coercive ideologues. https://t.co/wdjavFSRcT
— Bo Winegard (@EPoe187) September 18, 2020
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