CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY JANUARY 4, 2024
CLAUDINE GAY IS OUT AS HARVARD PRESIDENT. SHE SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN IN. CLEARLY, SHE WAS PICKED BECAUSE OF HER RACE AND GENDER, BUT IN HER RESPONSE TO BEING FORCED TO RESIGN OVER 50 COUNTS OF PLAGIAIRISM, GAY PLAYED THE RACE CARD. REVEREND AL SHARPTON WENT HER ONE BETTER. SHARPTON INDICTED CORPORATIONS BECAUSE HE SAID THEY WERE LOOKING FOR AN EXCUSE NOT TO DONATE MONEY TO THE IVY LEAGE SCHOOL.
THAT MAY HAVE BEEN A SIDE EFFECT OF GAY’S OUTRAGEOUS BEHAVIOR, BUT SHE AND THE BOARD THAT MADE HER PRESIDENT HAVE ONLY THEMSELVES TO BLAME. SHE HAD PUBLISHED NO SCHOLARLY WORK THAT WAS PEER-REVIEWED. THE MEDIA WERE COMPLICIT BECAUSE INFORMATION ABOUT HER BACKGROUND WAS READILY AVAILABLE. IT TOOK THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON, A SMALL PUBLICATION, TO BREAK THE NEWS. NOT THE NEW YORK TIMES OR WASHINGTON.
GAY WILL BE ALLOWED TO KEEP HER TEACHING POSITION AT A SALARY JUST UNDER ONE MILLION DOLLARS.
IF HARVARD WANTS A BLACK WOMAN PRESIDENT IT SHOULD PICK CONDOLEEZZA RICE OR THE WOMAN WHOSE WORK WAS PLAGIARIZED BY GAY. FORMER PRESIDENT OBAMA LOBBIED TO KEEP HER IN POSITION BUT HAS GONE SILENT SINCE HER RESIGNATION. PRESIDENT BIDEN WILL SAY NOTHING BECAUSE HE PLAGIARIZED TOO. AND TO THINK HARVARD WAS FOUNDED ON CHRISTIAN VALUES. I’M CAL THOMAS.
