(THE FEDERALIST) – The University of Michigan, a taxpayer-funded institution with the third-largest public endowment in the United States, paid a critical race theory (CRT) activist close to $266 per minute – $20,000 in total – to lecture on systemic racism over Zoom, according to financial documents obtained by The Federalist pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act.
Headlining this year’s “Nancy Cantor Lecture on Intellectual Diversity” at Michigan was Beverly Daniel Tatum. Tatum, a clinical psychologist and the author of several left-wing manifestos on race relations, raked in the same amount of money from Michigan taxpayers as CRT czar Ibram X. Kendi in November 2020.
The event was open to the public. It was not mandatory for people affiliated with the University of Michigan, confirmed university spokeswoman Kim Broekhuizen. The lecture was paid for by the university’s general fund and a state grant, Broekhuizen said. The fund is comprised of tuition revenue, state funding, and indirect cost recovery on sponsored research. In other words, U of M is using tax dollars to peddle racism.