Commentary: Government Should Not Legitimate Systemic-Racism Confessions

December 15, 2024 1 min read

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Peter Berkowitz
RealClear Politics

Excerpt: Most selective colleges and universities receive substantial federal funds – tens and even hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars a year for student aid and faculty research. Since Title VI contains no exceptions to its prohibition on raced-based discrimination, it also bars racism that is systemic. Thinking along these lines, in 2020, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos attempted to hold Princeton University accountable for the systemic racism it claimed was lodged there.

Entertaining and instructive as was her gambit, the Trump administration should not repeat it. That’s because systemic racism does not plague the nation’s colleges and universities, and government should not legitimize frivolous claims that it does.

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Bruce Berkow
Bruce Berkow

December 20, 2024

But there is reason to conclude that systemic anti-racism does indeed permeate academia, with potentially disastrous consequences.

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