racism, the approved variety, this time at harvard; 

Professor James Hankins wrote in a piece titled "Whit I'm Leaving Harvard" that his decision to retire "was not a sudden one," and that he'd made up his mind in 2021 after the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and George Floyd riots - both of which dramatically changed Harvard's graduate admissions process.

"In reviewing graduate student applicants in the fall of 2020 I came across an outstanding prospect who was a perfect fit for our program. In past years this candidate would have risen immediately to the top of the applicant pool," he wrote. "In 2021, however, I was told informally by a member of the admissions committee that ‘that’ (meaning admitting a white male) was ‘not happening this year," 

Hankins said that in another instance, a white male student who he described as "literally the best" at Harvard - and who won the prize for graduating senior with the best overall academic record - was also rejected from the school's graduate program because "He too was a white male."

"I called around to friends at several universities to find out why on earth he had been rejected," Hankins continued. "Everywhere it was the same story: Graduate admissions committees around the country had been following the same unspoken protocol as ours."

"The one exception I found to the general exclusion of white males had begun life as a female."...............more...........