Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government is offering a three-day seminar titled “Empowering Black Leaders: Strategies for Personal and Professional Success.”
Despite the vanilla title, the conference is fraught with identity politics and critical race theories, wrote scholar Heather Mac Donald for City Journal.
Topics include “Navigating bias in the workplace,” “Intersectionality in its various forms,” and “Racial equity in policing,” Mac Donald wrote in the May 14 piece headlined “The Battle Against Identity Politics on Campuses Has Only Begun.”
The event will include a focus on “employee resource groups,” which Mac Donald wrote is “a euphemism for affinity groups.”
“… Kennedy School organizers and other human-resources types are hoping that a new name will shake off the separatist associations from the original term.”
She also wryly questioned the need for discussing racism in policing at a human resources event: “Speaking the truth about racism in a corporate leadership seminar means addressing the topic ‘Racial equity in policing,’ since racist police, one is to assume, impede black managers’ ability to climb the corporate ladder.”
That the conference takes place even as the Trump administration wages war against the Ivy League institution for its racial preferences shows that the “effort to extirpate identity politics from universities will be a slog,” she wrote.
“The resources of the anti-Western academy are wide and deep,” Mac Donald wrote. “The Trump administration can sue against racial preferences and opt not to fund particular research.”
“But it will take a more broad-based coalition of alumni, donors, trustees, and opinion-makers focused over years to make courses like Empowering Black Leaders the atavistic relics that they deserve to be.”
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