Christopher Rufo:
Well, I mean, of course, that’s not true at all.
I’m a fellow at Hillsdale College. Hillsdale College takes no federal money because Hillsdale knows that when you start taking taxpayer dollars, there are corresponding and reciprocal obligations and duties. And so Harvard has a duty to uphold the law.
Certainly, we have made massive progress since the civil rights era, but the last bastion of racial segregation is ironically enough at these elite Ivy League universities, which retain segregated programs, segregated graduation ceremonies, segregated scholarship opportunities in many cases.
And so that’s really what we’re fighting against. And I think we’re going to win. Harvard actually announced yesterday they were going to stop racially segregated graduation ceremonies. It’s a good start, but much more is needed.
