NAACP President Claims Critics of Harvard’s Claudine Gay Are Advancing ‘White Supremacist Agenda’

With Harvard University president Claudine Gay in the hot seat for her comments at a congressional hearing on antisemitism as a well as for the recently reported instances of plagiarism in her scholarly work, it was only a matter of time before her supporters accused her critics of racism.

NAACP president Derrick Johnson recently claimed that attacks against Gay “are nothing more than political theatrics advancing a White supremacist agenda.”

“Enough is enough,” he wrote on X. “Harvard President Claudine Gay is a distinguished scholar and professor with decades of service in higher education. The recent attacks on her leadership are nothing more than political theatrics advancing a White supremacist agenda.”