Dear Marc Rowan, Bill Ackman, Jon Huntsman, et al.
Dear Marc Rowan, Bill Ackman, Jon Huntsman, et al.
The Ivy League is poisoned
Marc Rowan is the Wharton School of Business Chairman at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also my boss’s boss’s boss’s boss’s boss or something like that. The radio company I work for is owned by Apollo Global, and Rowan is the CEO of that parent company.
The University of Pennsylvania has pushed Rowan to resign his chairmanship because Rowan does not like how the university has handled the rise of anti-Semitism on campus. He and other donors are unwilling to write large checks to a school that polices microaggressions but lets students call for eliminating Israel.
Jon Huntsman has notified the University of Pennsylvania that his family foundation will no longer send the millions of dollars the university came to expect.
Financier Bill Ackman wants to know the names of the students joining the anti-Semitic protests. All of these gentlemen are horrified by these Ivy League and elite institutions, which regularly denounce microaggressions, “anti-trans” speech, and conservatives on campus but let anti-Semites chant “from river to sea” and “there is only one solution.”
At Cooper Union College in New York City, Jewish students sought refuge in the college library overnight as pro-Palestinian protestors beat on the door, demanding they come out. The school is not technically the Ivy League, but is one of those elite institutions that admits only 14% of applicants and, until the last decade, gave full scholarships from well-heeled donors to all students.
I just went through our annual diversity training at my company. The lawyers helpfully told us that we do it not because it covers the company’s butt but because it improves the company. We learned about sexual harassment. We learned about amplifying minority voices. We learned about tolerance, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Where was the training against anti-Semitism? These men and others have funded a bunch of academic institutions and then filled their companies’ ranks with the products of those institutions. We now see these new Ivy League hires are fine with the genocide of the Jewish people.
Maybe spending less time telling us the Billy Graham rule is bad and more time telling us it’s bad to root for the genocide of the Jewish race might help ferret out the people already on the inside who should not be there.
But there’s something else worth noting here that I hope these men pay attention to.
Georgetown University may have mass pro-Hamas rallies, but the University of Georgia does not. Harvard might see its professors and students chanting “Death to Israel,” but Mercer University (my alma mater) does not. The University of Pennsylvania may cheer on the murders of Jews, but the University of Florida does not. In fact, Ben Sasse, the President of the University of Florida, led that school’s study body in a pro-Israel rally.
Most Americans do not send their children to the institutions of the secular, progressive elite. They send their kids to Covenant College, Berry, Olivet, Texas A&M, LSU, Purdue, Oklahoma, Louisville, the University of Alabama, etc., etc., etc. Sure, there are some protestors and Hamas sympathizers at each of those, but most of the students are there to get a degree and a real job, and the Hamas sympathizers chanting against Jews are not humored by the administrations.
These institutions turn out fine financiers, economists, MBAs, doctors, and lawyers. But they get overlooked by the billionaires of Wall Street who have sent their money to unwittingly train anti-Semites at Yale and genocide champions at Harvard. These guys are donating to the University of Pennsylvania, which in turn is producing the future donor class of Hezbollah.
If you really want to change the institutions, you have to stop hiring from the Ivys when there are plenty of fine, capable, and academically gifted graduates in the SEC and elsewhere from Middle American families who raised these kids with a work ethic and whose values align with the nation, not the Nazis. Hire the kids who worked part-time at Chick-fil-A instead of the kids whose fathers got them fellowships at liberal elite institutions.
The elite have demanded we give them our attention and respect. They have lost the former and never earned the latter. The donors to these institutions have contributed to the class and income gap while creating a group of indoctrinated, entitled credentialists who would send these same donors to their deaths in concentration camps.
The only way to stop it is to force change. The only way to force change is to take away the access, give up the Ivy-covered gatekeeping, and look past the elites to the Americans.
Bravo! My husband and I have raised 4 fine Americans. Only one graduated from a small college in Alabama. She is a stay at home mom with 5 little girls. Two are adopted from foster care. She’s homeschooling while nursing the baby. Our son went in the Navy. He’s out now and has a stay at home wife, 2 little boys, a little girl on the way. He’s a welder making well over 100K a year. We have a daughter who dropped out of college when her first baby came along. She now has 2 children and is the manager for a pest control company. She works every day and now supports those two awesome kiddos on her own and she’s doing a fine job. The youngest daughter didn’t want to go to college. Her grades alone, not to mention her SAT score, would have allowed her to go anywhere. She wanted to go to work. She’s a bartender working 65 hours a week. She is the kindest and most responsible human being I have ever known. She moved out at 19 and has fully supported herself for 9 years. I’m sick of seeing these snotty, entitled brats on my television every night. It seems to me their parents have wasted their money and should have invested in a yellow bell bush. Best correction ever for snotty little kids.
The real question; Will the majority of the Jewish voting population start voting for the party which supports Israel or will they continue to support the pro Hamas party?