Claudine Gay Is Proof That Being A Black First Comes With A Hell Of A Fight ...Just Ask Barack Obama

Claudine Gay, Harvard University’s first Black president, has resigned after only six months in the position. Initially, she was able to survive her response to the Israel-Hamas War and her congressional testimony last month. However, it was alleged evidence of plagiarism in her earlier academic work that proved to be what ultimately ousted the Black woman from her esteemed perch.

Gay is the third president of a top U.S. university to resign in less than a year; the other two include Elizabeth Magill of University of Pennsylvania and Marc Tessier-Lavigne of Stanford. Being a Black woman, though, added an extra layer of hatred to the attacks on Gay, proving that being a Black first will always come with a hell of a battle.

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The next president of Harvard should be a Black woman. However, they shouldn’t have to endure all of the vitriol Gay was exposed to.

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