We at the Bear are looking forward to seeing and hearing  Jamelle Bouie speak on Tuesday September 12 as part of President Pollack’s Freedom of Expression Theme Year.

The lecture will be in a safe space because Jamelle Bouie has a race-first policy, which clearly puts our core value of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion above our core value of free speech.  Mr. Bouie clearly supported this hierarchy in a debate with Coleman Hughes, the White Supremacist, who favors a colorblind world. A race-first policy is the only way to achieve Belonging at Cornell.

Not only does Mr. Bouie take a race-first approach, but he also knows that focusing on campus protests is a distraction from the real threats to freedom of speech. The real threats come from the Republicans, the Right, and Trump:

We should confront the threats to free expression. But let’s make sure we’re looking in the right [not left] place and aiming at the right [not left] actors. It is not radical college students who truly threaten free speech, it’s those people—like the sitting president of the United States [Trump]—who hold actual power.

So let’s all support President Pollack’s woke perspective on free speech and attend the 2023 Daniel W. Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture, where Jamelle Bouie will speak on “Constitutionalism, Reform and the Press’ Role in Helping the Public Think About Institutions.”