Rather than rant and rave about how James Williams, the LSU Board of Supervisors member who has more or less plenary power on that board, and Collis Temple, who’s the Board of Supervisors member you see in the photo above who’s dressed differently than all the others, buffaloed the Board into hiring somebody on the basis of race, we’ll just rip off the Google Scholar page of one William F. Tate, formerly provost at the University of South Carolina and now LSU’s first black president.

It doesn’t bother us that LSU now has a black president. What bothers us is that LSU has gone from a pair of woke white leftists running the place in F. King Alexander and Tom Galligan to a radical leftist purveyor of Critical Race Theory. Tate’s scholarly citations are almost uniformly about that subject and it is inconceivable that CRT wouldn’t provide the framework for his governance of the university.

Here’s what Tate has published in scholarly publications…