Riley, like John Derbyshire before her, stepped on the third rail of American politics.
Blame the politicians. They are the ones who collude with the education establishment to funnel taxpayer money into the various grievance studies. The education establishment, in turn, indoctrinates its students to become loyal servants of the system.
I think people should be free to study whatever they want so long as they do it on their own dime. What about poor students? No problem. So long as that money comes from private charity, what business is it of mine? I’m totally cool with people choosing to redistribute their own wealth.
Didn’t Ike warn of a military/industrial complex? Well, today we have a government/education/public union complex.
Plain and simple, the people at the head of CHE simply do not wish to offend minority members at the risk of being labeled racists. So they publish their worthless papers all the while laughing at the shoddy work and misguided assumptions at the heart of these “academic” exercises which constitute Black Studies. Undoubtedly, a number of them probably agree with the Black Studies writers who firmly believe it’s still 1955 and Emmitt Till and thousands of other Blacks are still being lynched and de jure segregation and “institutional racism” are still prevalent. Nothing in the way of facts is going to persuade these people. They don’t want to know the truth.