Human Events Reports: Just last week, we opined that Harvard University had been destroyed by the so-called Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) movement, a movement which, despite its name, makes a mockery of all three purported ideals; a mockery which many Americans have only just begun to notice now that they have, like all hate movements, turned on the Jewish community. “[Harvard’s] buildings may still stand, but its reputation has been warned,” we concluded sorrowfully. 

What a difference a week makes. Just days ago, news broke that Harvard’s comically underqualified, disastrously inept, and morally obtuse president Claudine Gay has resigned. Hers will be the shortest tenure of any Harvard president on record. Not exactly a good sign for Harvard’s first black president.

This much, we must say, could have been avoided. Had Harvard chosen a president based on merit, not race, they may have found plenty of better candidates for the post who are also black. But for the Harvard Corporation that runs the school, it wasn't enough to have a launch a search based on scholarship, they needed someone who checked all the boxes and so that was their priority.

They sought a black, woman, leftist who would uphold principles of diversity, equity and inclusion, otherwise known as the principle of marginalizing the so-called oppressor, dismantling the dominant culture, and ensuring that Harvard continued on its path as a Marxist indoctrination center that would disrupt the American leadership class.

Had Harvard wanted to appoint a black president, it could have turned to the likes of Professor Carol Swain – who, among others, Claudine Gay plagiarized – or, if they wanted a less controversial choice with existing Harvard connections, to someone like Henry Louis Gates, who at least has the distinction of being a critic of Critical Race Theory and its resentful, undercooked creator, Derrick Bell. Moreover, while we would like to believe that the next Harvard president will be selected entirely based on merit, we are not naïve; the school has not exactly shown itself as a bastion of courage, lately.