A former law school professor and Harvard graduate has argued the public should not use the race card to defend the Ivy League school’s embattled president, Claudine Gay, because she claims she has made a career out of “harassing” black male scholars.
Winkfield Twyman Jr., a former professor at California Western School of Law in San Diego, ripped Gay in a Newsweek op-ed published Wednesday — insisting the recent attacks on his credibility were “as they should be” and not, as some say party , “racist in nature.”
Twyman specifically pointed to the backlash Gay faced in recent weeks after he failed to denounce calls for the genocide of Jews during congressional hearings and amid allegations he had plagiarized the work of fellow professors at several points in his career.
“However, many came to his defense. Having finally gotten their wish for a black Harvard president, Harvard doesn’t seem to want to let go,” he said, adding that the “racial wagons” have circled Gay ever since.
“This is not only misguided, but very ironic. Did you know that Claudine Gay during her career at Harvard has repeatedly targeted and disrupted the careers of prominent black male professors?”
Winkfield Twyman Jr., a former law professor, claims Harvard president Claudine Gay’s racist defense is misguided. WF Twyman, Jr/Facebook
Twyman, who authored the book on race “Letters in Black and White: A New Correspondence on Race in America,” claimed that Gay fired Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. as dean of Harvard’s Winthrop House in 2019 after he joined Harvey Weinstein’s legal team.
He also alleged that Gay coordinated a “witch hunt” against economics professor Roland G. Fryer Jr. after his research into the murder of an unarmed black man in Houston, Texas, found no racial disparity.
“He made the mistake of undercutting the racist narrative that the Left has adopted, and as a result, Gay is doing his best to remove all of his academic privileges, coordinating a witch hunt against him,” Twyman said.
“Fryer survived Gay’s passing but Fryer’s lab was closed, his reputation tarnished.”
The author continued: “No one of good will should defend a Gay President because he is Harvard’s first black president. Even if you don’t agree with me that our racial struggles are in our past, someone who has targeted a black male professor has set aside any benefits from a ‘black first’ defense.”
The Harvard president has faced intense backlash in recent weeks after he failed to denounce calls for the genocide of Jews during a congressional hearing and amid allegations he plagiarized the work of a fellow professor. Getty Images
Gay did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment on Twyman’s allegations.
His criticism comes just weeks after one of the academics who accused Gay of ripping off his work claimed Harvard would not condemn its prez because it held “high-blooded” minorities to a lower standard than others.
“Harvard cannot condemn Ms. Gay because she is a product of an elite system that holds high-born minorities to a lower standard,” Carol Swain, a former professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.
“It hurts academia as a whole, and it demeans Americans, of all races, who have to work for everything they get.”
Gay came under fire with accusations that he retracted the master’s work in his doctoral thesis in 1997 and wrote four papers published between 1993 and 2017 that did not include proper attribution.
The Harvard Corporation — the school’s highest governing body — later revealed that an independent review of the plagiarism allegations found three instances of “inadequate citation” on its part, but no misconduct.
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