Activist and TV personality Rev. Al Sharpton expressed outrage at Claudine Gay’s resignation in a statement Tuesday.
“President Gay’s resignation is about more than a person or a single incident. This is an attack on every Black woman in this country who’s put a crack in the glass ceiling,” he said.
Sharpton is the host of “PoliticsNation,” a weekly talk show broadcast on MSNBC.
Sharpton placed the blame for Gay’s resignation on Wall Street financier and Harvard alum Bill Ackman’s “relentless campaign against President Gay, not because of her leadership or credentials but because he felt she was a DEI hire.”
Ackman has been a vocal critic of Gay’s tenure as Harvard president in the months following her controversial Congressional testimony when she failed to fully condemn hate speech calling for genocide against Jews. Gay later apologized for her comments.
Sharpton said his civil rights organization, the National Action Network (NAN), will picket outside of Ackman’s office in New York on Thursday.
“If he doesn’t think Black Americans belong in the C-Suite, the Ivy League, or any other hallowed halls, we’ll make ourselves at home outside his office,” Sharpton wrote.
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