The American academic left continues to disappear up its own backside.
Show host Trevor Noah and Princeton professor Ruha Benjamin suggest segregation should be reintegrated into American schools, says integration was not "the right solution."
Noah: "I would love to know if you think integration was the right solution."
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"No. I don't… when you're being integrated into institutions, into a culture that's a supremacist culture… why are we being integrated into that?"
Ruha Benjamin is professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. "She works on the relationship between innovation and equity, particularly the intersection of race, justice, and technology."
In December 2024, Benjamin spoke at a gathering of the National Association of Independent Schools, where representatives from 60 Jewish schools were in attendance; her remarks were condemned as antisemitic by Jewish groups. A student in attendance described her remarks as "allud[ing] to Israelis – Jews – as genocidal, and portray[ing] them as immoral beings, who ethnic cleanse, and annihilate an entire people.' She implied that Israelis lack humanity, that they are individuals who do not believe in the 'seemingly radical notion that all life is sacred.'"
I know. What a surprise. But it goes down well:
Benjamin is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including Marguerite Casey Foundation and Group Health Fund Freedom Scholar Award, fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, and Institute for Advanced Study, among others. In 2017 she received the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton. In 2024, Benjamin was named a MacArthur Fellow.
Mick Hartley 
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