Black Scholars Are Not ‘Rare Creatures’
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In late November, the president of Purdue University, Mitch Daniels, told students that he will soon “be recruiting one of the rarest creatures in America — a leading, I mean a really leading, African-American scholar.”
“Creatures?” a student asked. “Come on.”
“It’s a figure of speech. You must have taken some literature,” Mr. Daniels said. “One of the rarest, let me say, rarest birds, rarest, rarest, rarest phenomena.”
Originally published: December 4, 2019
Author: G. Gabrielle Starr
Position: President
Institution: Pomona College
Published by: The New York Times