Black Students At Absurdly Expensive College: Objective Truth Is ‘WHITE SUPREMACY’ And A ‘Myth’ Rea

A group of black students at one of America’s ritziest private colleges has sent a lengthy open letter to their school president charging that the search for objective truth is a white supremacist invention used for “silencing oppressed peoples.” The letter also criticizes free speech as “a tool appropriated by hegemonic institutions.”

The students who wrote the letter attend Pomona College in sunny Southern California, reports the Claremont Independent, a student newspaper.

Pomona, a member of the five-school Claremont Consortium, charges $64,957 for a single year of tuition, fees and room and board.

The museum-quality, 1,053-word letter addressed to outgoing Pomona president David Oxtoby is a response to Oxtoby’s statement earlier this month stressing the fancypants school’s commitment to “free speech and academic freedom.” Oxtoby made his statement in the wake of a protest which had shut down an April 6 speech by Heather Mac Donald, a generally conservative social critic.



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