Apparently, the very bright and morally better academics at Stanford, one of the country's most prestigious universities, forgot that racism is bad and institutional racism is illegal.
The Graduate Student Council at Stanford University allegedly gave preferential treatment in the form of movie tickets and bus rides exclusively to black students to go see the newest Marvel flick, Wakanda Forever.
Stanford University's Graduate Student Council gave black students preference for tickets and a bus ride to a screening of the second "Black Panther" movie, prompting a federal civil rights complaint by a former senior Trump administration official.
Adam Kissel's onetime employer, the Department of Education, won't acknowledge it received a complaint about the incident, however, or commit to investigating it.
Stanford is on the hook under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act because the GSC is part of the student government, which is recognized by the university, Kissel told the department's Office for Civil Rights San Francisco division in a Nov. 18 complaint shared with Just the News.
That's CRT in action for you.
Remedying past discrimination with present and future discrimination.
The GSC has "discriminated on the basis of race in a program or activity and emailed students about this discrimination," he wrote, pointing the feds to the email reprinted by The Stanford Review, the independent campus newspaper cofounded by then-student Peter Thiel, the Trump-supporting venture capitalist.
Tasked with supporting graduate student organizations and "providing community events," the GSC informed students it had organized back-to-back Nov. 10 private off-campus screenings of "Wakanda Forever," with 450 tickets available.
The first 100 tickets would be reserved for black students via online lottery, however, and the rest would be available first-come, first-serve for all races right before the first screening, the email said. Black students with lottery tickets would also get priority seating on bus rides to the theater.
Maybe the folks at Stanford forgot, but racism like this has been outlawed for the better part of a century at this point.
But I guess anti-white racism is suddenly okay.
"All Asian, non-Black Hispanic, white, and other non-Black graduate students at Stanford have been harmed by this discrimination," according to the complaint by Kissel, former deputy assistant secretary for higher education programs. "Please investigate and resolve this matter."
According to a Review editorial, 4% of Stanford's 9,000 graduate students are black. GSC funding comes from the $141 annual Graduate Student Activities Fee, which is being used to "discriminate against 96% of the grad student population."
I don't expect this racism to be seriously addressed by Biden's Department of Education or by the woke administrators at Stanford, but this prejudice needs to be continued to be reported on, shamed, and stamped out.
Racism is evil, in all forms.
