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Hakeem Jefferson

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.stanforddaily.com
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Phil Malone

Thank you so much for writing this, and for not holding back in spots. Berk's piece was so clueless and disingenuous and, mostly, downright intellectually dishonest.

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Phil Malone

The part that most pushed me over the edge was, "I challenge you to ask yourself the following question: Do you really want to live in a world where people are treated differently based on the race they belong to?" He clearly thinks we don't live in such a world, and haven't since WWII. Ugh.

Tiffany Ito

An excellent, fact-based piece.

The Big Z

Business Schools have often been a refuge for mediocre minds.

Nate Kruger

Pretty jaw-dropping that he cited the GI Bill like that

Barbara Waxer 🌈

Last fall, didn't he also slam Stanford grad students for wanting a living wage? He seems like yet another entitled South African native.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

"But the argument descends further. Berk asserts — without irony — that in contrast to today, “After WWII and the GI Bill, private universities like Stanford became places that provided opportunities to bright young minds from all strata in society.” this is wild! I'm glad you responded

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Hakeem Jefferson

That’s the part that got me out of bed at 630 am to start writing!

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p.a.lapid, phd

🫡 (and bonus props for the Filipino reference)

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Hakeem Jefferson

Unclear to my Filipino partner @villarrecords.bsky.social and me: why Berk’s piece pairs “Filipino or African-American” to argue race doesn’t matter in poverty. Not a common pairing—and why it came easily to him is… a question.

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p.a.lapid, phd

having flashbacks to WW2 history in the US Navy, when Filipinos and Black sailors were restricted to stewards and mess hall roles (among many other examples of segregation and discrimination)

Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

Berk’s piece was embarrassing (for him). Thank you for this rejoinder.

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Christopher Zorn

Business school professors are by construction incapable of embarrassment.

Deborah Ahrens

I’m a white first-gen college student who understands both that I had better credentials than most of my classmates *and* that I benefitted from DEI aimed at students like me and would not otherwise have been admitted. This should not be rocket science.

Hakeem Jefferson

And I’ll just say, I am grateful for a partner who pulled me back in some places, but few pieces get me out of bed to write immediately. Berk’s piece did that. And whatever shade is evident in the piece of mine you read here, know there was more.

Jana von Stein

SO MUCH THIS. Beautifully written. Thank you for writing it.

Dr Michigan Christie

Stanford gsb is my alma mater but yikes may that guy take a long walk off a short pier

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Dr Michigan Christie

When I was a student there (marketing) my sweetheart (management, economic sociology) and I used to dream of a whole business school devoid of people we didn’t like, until we realized this meant “no finance department.” Now, of course, I realize that was insufficient 😢🙄😡. Thank you again, Hakeem.

tagerai

The great white privilege is ignorance, usually of white privilege itself, but in this case it was ignorance that he would raise the ire of Hakeem! Had he realized what he was about to find out he wouldn’t have written in the first place!