This is CBS. I on the world. I'm John Batchel. I welcome Peter Berkowitz at the Hoover

Institution, writing his column in Real Clear Politics, revealing to me something I had no idea of

whatsoever, conduct of Harvard College during the early years after George Floyd and the ambition of one

faculty member who was then the dean of the faculty and would become the president of Harvard College

until and if her resignation following a strange testimony to the U.S. Congress, which was the first time I ever knew

to pay attention. Peter, a very good evening to you. Her name is Claudine Gay. I remember after

the congressional testimony, there was a lot of detail about rising quickly through Harvard until

she was named president of the college.

I didn't know about her letter that you reproduced in your column when she was dean of the faculty. This is in response, I guess, in the atmosphere of the pandemic, the turmoil, one turmoil leading to the looting of stores in New York that I walked through one night after my radio show,

and the general understanding of what becomes Black Lives Matter across the nation.

Claudine Gay writes a letter to the faculty about ethnicity, indigenity, and migration.

Help me understand this letter because it reads, it doesn't read it to be thoughtful or scholarly

or consultative. It reads like a dictation to the faculty who are treated as if they were both guilty and innocent at the same

time. Good evening to you, Peter. Good evening, John. Yes, this memoism is a manifesto,

and you're exactly right. The faculty is both innocent and guilty. In what sense is it guilty?

Well, according to Claudine Gay, Harvard University remains a bastion

of racism and inequality. That sense they're guilty. But they're innocent in the sense that they now

have the opportunity to institute profound institutional change at Harvard.

Why?

Because the George Floyd protests and riots of the summer of 2020 have revealed to one

and all the United States, that the United States suffers from systemic racism, structural inequality, white supremacy, and with our

consciousness having been raised by these protests, which include massive amount of violence,

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