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🚨ANNOUNCEMENT: I’ve taken legal action against Cornell University for racial discrimination.

Represented by @A1Policy, I’ve filed an EEOC complaint after leaked internal emails revealed Cornell secretly ran a faculty search in my exact field (evolutionary biology) specifically… pic.twitter.com/kGwF0U8So2

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) July 30, 2025

ANNOUNCEMENT: I’ve taken legal action against Cornell University for racial discrimination.

Represented by
@A1Policy
, I’ve filed an EEOC complaint after leaked internal emails revealed Cornell secretly ran a faculty search in my exact field (evolutionary biology) specifically to make a “diversity hire.”

The committee privately reached out to pre-selected "diverse" candidates, one at a time, to bypass open competition. Qualified white applicants like myself were excluded from even applying.

This is a direct and egregious violation of my civil rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

Imagine if the races were reversed:
- A secret search designed to hire only white candidates
- Qualified Black applicants deliberately excluded
- Internal emails spelling it all out

It would be a national scandal. That’s exactly what happened—except I’m white.

I spent 12+ years building my career. None of that mattered because of my skin color.

This isn’t just about me. Race-based hiring erodes trust in science, undermines excellence, and has demoralized a generation of qualified scholars.

This must end.

Let my case serve as a warning that there is a price for violating civil rights.

Read my full announcement in the
@WSJ
:
🔗https://wsj.com/opinion/cornell-university-discriminated-against-me-1e2d6a1e?mod=opinion_lead_pos6