They’re coming for you next: Tabia Lee, a black woman who was fired as faculty director for the Office of Equity, Social Justice, and Education [OESE] at De Anza College in California has, as promised, refused to go quietly.

As I reported in March, Lee was fired because she took the word “inclusion” literally, trying to establish a color-blind policy that would provide some aid and comfort to the Jewish students on campus who were experiencing almost daily incidents of harassment and bigotry, simply because they were Jewish.

Her reward? She was herself harassed, with some calling her a “dirty Zionist,” then denied tenure, then fired.

Since then she has not gone quietly into that good night. In July Lee suited De Anza College, as well as ten specific school officials, charging the school violated her First Amendment rights, California’s Constitution, and its Common Law in censoring and firing her.

Her name came up again this week because she wrote a blistering op-ed for the New York Post, blasting not only De Anza for its racist DEI policies, but blasting the entire “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” movement as nothing more that a Nazi-like movement promoting bigotry and hate.

At its worst, DEI is built on the unshakable belief that the world is divided into two groups of people: the oppressors and the oppressed. Jews are categorically placed in the oppressor category, while Israel is branded a “genocidal, settler, colonialist state.”

In this worldview, criticizing Israel and the Jewish people is not only acceptable but praiseworthy. (Just as it’s OK to attack America and white people.) If you don’t go after them — or worse, if you defend them — you’re actively abetting racist oppression. I have never encountered a more hostile environment toward the members of any racial, ethnic or religious group.

…[The] outpouring of antisemitic hatred [after Hamas’ attack that tortured and killed more than a thousand people, including women, children, and babies] is the direct result of DEI’s insistence that Jews are oppressors.

Her solution? “Administrators and lawmakers need to get toxic DEI out of higher education.”

Will they? If the pressure from the public, donors, and people like Tabia Lee continues they just might. And if they don’t, then parents and students need to rethink how they choose the colleges they wish to attend. It seems idiotic to go to a place that teaches hate and bigotry, as it certainly won’t teach you to become a cultured adult. Instead, it will train you to become a warrior of hate, willing to justify the worst sort of murderous genocide in the name of saving the “oppressed.”

In the past two weeks we have seen ample evidence of that ugly training. Students across America have been aggressively protesting in support of Hamas, so much so that they have been actually threatening harm to any Jewish students they see.

This is the kind of hate that Tabia Lee discovered at De Anza College. Kudos to her for fighting back.

Bring a gun to a knife fight: As I reported in March, Tabia Lee was fired as faculty director for the Office of Equity, Social Justice, and Education [OESE] at De Anza College in California when she repeatedly demanded historical accuracy and color-blind policies from both her department and the rest of the college. Here is just one example of what she was trying to do and the opposition she faced:

Lee found herself constantly harassed and slandered because she tried to bring to her work an even-handed philosophy that attempted to deal with the problems of racial conflict fairly. For example, when Jewish students and faculty members told her they had experienced anti-Semitism on campus, Lee tried to organize a campus event to discuss the problem.

Instead, she said, coworkers told her the event wasn’t important and that Jewish people are white oppressors.

…Her career at De Anza College ended when her tenure was denied because the college claimed she had an “inability to demonstrate cooperation in working with colleagues and staff” and an “unwillingness to accept constructive criticism.” This was followed by a vote by the college administration to dismiss her the end of this academic year.

Lee has now filed suit challenging her firing. You can read her complaint here.

De Anza College, where race and gender rules all

She is not only suing De Anza College, but ten specific school officials. I strongly urge you to read the complaint, because describes in horrifying detail the ingrained censorship, oppression, and leftist and racist indoctrination going on at De Anza, something that Lee opposed for which she was fired. The list of incidents documenting these facts is too long to quote here, since any one example will hardly give the true sense of the intellectual corruption of the school.

In her suit, Lee charges the school violated her First Amendment rights, California’s Constitution, and its Common Law in censoring and firing her. She is also claiming its actions — advocating racial bigotry that favored some minorities — violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964, California’s State Constitution, and California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act, all of which expressly forbid discrimination on the basis of race, religion, or ethnicity. For relief she is demanding her job back, plus all back pay and lost income, as well as “punitive damages … without limitation.”

Should she win and get her job back, I am not sure how she will be able to function at the school. No one is likely to be fired, even though this is a community public college with extensive state funding. California’s Democratically-controlled government (entirely in favor in racial discrimination) will support the specific college individuals being sued, even if they end up being forced to pay damages out of their own pockets. The culture of the entire faculty will still be against her, and will work repeatedly to sabotage her actions.

Nonetheless, kudos for her for fighting. I hope she wins, goes back to work there, and makes everyone there sweat by her willingness to treat everyone fairly, regardless of their race.

They’re coming for you next: Tabia Lee, the faculty director for the Office of Equity, Social Justice, and Education [OESE] at De Anza College in California, was denied tenure and fired from her job when she repeatedly demanded historical accuracy and color-blind policies from both her department and the rest of the college.

“Historical accuracy and color-blind policies” from a modern college run by leftists? It is to laugh.

Tabia Lee is a black woman who had been an adjunct professor at De Anza when she got the job to run part of the OESE department.

After years of working as a middle-school teacher and an adjunct professor, and founding a network to help minority teachers attain national board certification, Lee was excited get a tenure-track position at De Anza, where her job includes designing workshops to promote inclusion. “I researched them, and I thought we had similar values around diversity, equity and anti-racism,” she said. “I was selected, and I was like, wow, this is a dream come true.”

Instead, Lee found herself constantly harassed and slandered because she tried to bring to her work an even-handed philosophy that attempted to deal with the problems of racial conflict fairly. For example, when Jewish students and faculty members told her they had experienced anti-Semitism on campus, Lee tried to organize a campus event to discuss the problem.

Instead, she said, coworkers told her the event wasn’t important and that Jewish people are white oppressors.

The article at the link describes many more examples of the hatred Lee experienced at this supposed institution of “higher learning.” The most absurd example was when she, a black woman, was accused of being a white supremacist because she, citing the recommendation of the National Association of Black Journalists, recommended that the college in its communications capitalize the names of all racial groups (“White”, “Black,” etc) instead of just those of so-called oppressed peoples.

Another time she was slandered when she refused to join an on-campus socialist network.

“I do not identify as a liberal or a conservative or a Republican or a Democrat or a libertarian or socialist or a communist or a feminist,” she told The Post. “I don’t identify with any of those labels, so I just had no interest in being a part of that.

Then, when Lee tried to streamline her staff’s communications by using GoogleDocs, she was accused by a co-worker of “white-splaining”.

“I’m a black woman, and [they’re] telling me that I’m white-splaining,” Lee recalled. “[Everyone] acted like I had injured [my colleague] instead of it being the other way around, because I didn’t confess to my white supremacy or whatever.”

Her career at De Anza College ended when her tenure was denied because the college claimed she had an “inability to demonstrate cooperation in working with colleagues and staff” and an “unwillingness to accept constructive criticism.” This was followed by a vote by the college administration to dismiss her the end of this academic year.

Lee calls these accusations “bald-faced lies”, and is now considering legal action.

De Anza College, where race and gender rules all

The website for De Anza’s Equity and Engagement Division is very carefully written to avoid any accusations that it plays racial favorites. Yet you would have to be blind to believe it doesn’t do so. For example, the college has a program called “Men of Color”, providing counselors for students. The program’s title and website language, while never mentioning race, is clearly designed with race in mind. There is also a number other similar race-based programs, including a “Black Student Union” and a “Black Faculty, Staff and Administrators Network,” the latter of which is “a network of faculty, staff and administrators who identify as Black, African-American, African, Afro-American or of African ancestry or descent, and those colleagues who support our causes and initiatives.” And of course, like every modern university, De Anza would be incomplete without its very own “Pride Center” for advocating the queer agenda.

In other words, to this college race and gender is everything. Every student and teacher is defined by their race or gender, and the goal must be to promote the oppressed minorities to the detriment of everyone else.

Lee might have imagined her job was to promote good will and fair treatment for all races, but she was naive in the utmost. Her very job’s goal, as written by her, was to make race and gender the primary defining aspect of every human being, not their own personal individuality, and thus she was doomed to failure. When group identity becomes the be-all and end-all, individuality dies, and instead the fight centers on which group will get the most favored treatment while oppressing its rivals. By denying this reality, Lee stood no chance of surviving at her job or at De Anza.

I hope she sues, but to win she is going to have to take a hard honest look at her own priorities. As long as she herself puts race first, her case will always be crippled.