The New Institute for Racial Justice

UMass Boston has its own version of the "Department of Antiracism"

The sad (temporary?) demise of the infamous Ministry of Truth Disinformation Governance Board created a gap. Luckily, as we recently reported, UMass Boston recently revised its Mission and Vision statement with generous help from the King of Anti-Racism himself, who proposed to permanently fund an all-seeing, all-knowing, accountable to no-one Department of Antiracism (DOA).

Not a few days went by and lo and behold – UMass Boston’s college of Education followed through by creating its own DOA/Ministry of truth – The Educational Leadership and Transformation Institute for Racial Justice. Who said UMass Boston doesn’t act expediently?

We are happy to report that the new Institute is so anti-racist that it puts Kendi to shame. Knowing that it is rooted in the Leadership in Education Department, we are confident we’re in good hands as far as equity, racial justice and critical race theory are concerned:

1. They believe in academic freedom to teach critical race theory and gender theory! (and nothing else).

2. “The institute will focus on building capacity and sustainability to transform schools, colleges and universities for racial equity”– you have to catch’em when they’re young!

3. They already monitor our community for signs of dissent, such as

“Public charges of racism, defunding of our ethnic institutes and disagreement over mission and vision statement drafts on the university’s commitment to becoming an antiracist and health-promoting institution”.

Disagreement is bad!

4. Their commitment to equity is so strong, that they are willing to sacrifice Boston’s exam schools because, you know, merit is racist and the earth is flat.

To train future DOA, sorry, Ministry of truth, oops, sorry, Institute members, the Institute recently launched a call for a special inquisition agent training, oops, sorry, a call for applications for a faculty development institute for teaching race and culture effectively and relationally for faculty of color.

We tried to ask who, exactly, qualifies as “of color” but were immediately cancelled as bigots for raising the question.