EXCLUSIVE: Read Claudine Gay's Private Resignation Letter to the Harvard Board

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Harvard president Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday amid a flurry of scandal
involving blatant plagiarism and her refusal to condemn calls for Jewish
genocide on campus. She will remain as a member of the Harvard faculty
focused on "scholarship and teaching."

The text of Gay's official resignation letter, delivered via email to
"members of the Harvard community," has already been published in numerous
media outlets. The letter released to the public, however, is
significantly different compared with the letter of resignation she hand
delivered to the Harvard board.

Gay's private resignation letter was exclusively and semi-legally obtained
by the Washington Free Beacon. We have published it below for your
immediate edification. Enjoy!

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Eight score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we
(metaphorically) stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This
momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Black
and LGBTQIA2S+ slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering
injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their
captivity.

But 160 years later, I see no changes. All I see is racist faces.
Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races. The only time we chill is when we
kill each other. It takes skill to be real, time to heal each other. One
hundred and sixty years later, the Person of Color is still languished in
the corners of American society and finds herself in exile in her own
land. And so I have written you today to dramatize a shameful condition.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed
is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as President, I must put
the interest of Harvard first. Harvard needs a full-time President and a
full-time Corporation, particularly at this moment of extraordinary
challenge and frightening personal attacks fueled by racial animus.

To continue to fight—on the beaches, on the landing grounds, in the fields
and in the streets, whatever the cost may be—for my personal vindication
would almost totally absorb the time and attention of both the President
and the Corporation in a period when our entire focus should be on
upholding scholarly rigor and confronting hate in all its forms.

Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at 1:00 p.m. today.

When I came to power in 2023 my road was clearly mapped out. It had been
defined in a struggle, which had put me under an obligation to the Harvard
people. The social part of this program meant unifying the Harvard people,
overcoming all class and race prejudices, and if necessary, breaking any
opposition to this unity. Economically, it meant building a National
Harvard economy which appreciated the importance of private initiative,
but subordinated the entire economic life to the common interest.

It was the same in foreign politics. My program was to do away with
Versailles. People all over the world should not pretend to be simpletons
and act as if I had only discovered this program in 1933, or 1935, or
1937. These gentlemen should only have read what I wrote about myself a
thousand times instead of listening to stupid emigre trash. No human being
can have stated and written down as often as I what she wanted, and I
wrote it again and again: "Away with Versailles!"

As we welcome a new year and a new semester, I hope we can all look
forward to brighter days. Sad as I am to be sending this message, my hopes
for Harvard remain undimmed. I'm not talking about blind optimism here.
I'm talking about something more substantial. It's the hope of slaves
sitting around a fire singing freedom songs. The hope of immigrants
setting out for distant shores. The hope of a young naval lieutenant
bravely patrolling the Mekong Delta. The hope of a skinny kid with a funny
name who believes that America has a place for her too.

When my brief presidency is remembered, I hope it will be seen as a moment
of reawakening to the importance of striving to find our common
humanity—and of not allowing rancor and vituperation to undermine the
vital process of education. I promise to never give you up, to never let
you down, to never run around and desert you. To never make you cry, never
say goodbye, or tell a lie and hurt you. After my picture fades, and
darkness has turned to gray, watching through windows, you're wondering if
I'm okay. If you're lost you can look and you will find me, time after
time.

Sincerely,

Claudine Gay

(She/her)

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