'How sad it is to see our beloved Harvard Divinity School in such decline and decay,' Cornel West wrote in a letter posted to his social media accounts Monday.
accounts Monday. "The disarray of a scattered curriculum, the disenchantment of talented yet deferential faculty, and the disorientation of precious students loom large.""I try to tell the unvarnished truth about the decadence in our market-driven universities!" he wrote on his Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts.
"I hoped and prayed I could still end my career with some semblance of intellectual intensity and personal respect," he wrote. "How wrong I was!""With a few glorious and glaring exceptions, the shadow of Jim Crow was cast in its new glittering form expressed in the language of superficial diversity," he continued.
He said that when the news of his mother's death in April appeared in a newsletter, he received only two public replies, whereas an ordinary announcement about a lecture, award or achievement would typically result in 20 replies. West's letter was made public about a week after the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, who is Black,
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