Ex-law prof claims Harvard president Claudine Gay made a career out of attacking black scholars

A former law school professor and Harvard grad has argued people shouldn’t use the race card to defend the Ivy League school’s embattled president, Claudine Gay, because he claims she’s made a career out of “disrupting” black male scholars.

Winkfield Twyman Jr., an ex-professor at the California Western School of Law in San Diego, ripped Gay in a Newsweek op-ed published Wednesday — insisting the recent attacks on her credibility are “well deserved” and not, as some have argued, “racial in nature.”

Twyman pointed specifically to the intense backlash Gay has faced in recent weeks after she failed to condemn calls for the genocide of Jews during a congressional hearing and amid claims she has plagiarized the work of fellow professors at points in her career.

“And yet, many are coming to her defense. Having finally got their wish of a Black president of Harvard, Harvard seems unwilling to let her go,” he said, adding the “racial wagons” have been circling around Gay ever since.

“This is not only misguided, but deeply ironic. Did you know that Claudine Gay during her Harvard career has repeatedly targeted and disrupted the careers of prominent black male professors?”

Twyman, who authored the race-related book “Letters in Black and White: A New Correspondence on Race in America”, claimed Gay axed Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr as dean of Harvard’s Winthrop House in 2019 after he joined Harvey Weinstein’s legal team.

He also claimed Gay coordinated a “witch hunt” against economics professor, Roland G. Fryer Jr., after his research into the killings of unarmed black men in Houston, Texas found no racial disparities.

“He made the mistake of undercutting the racial narrative that the Left has adopted, and as a result, Gay did her best to remove all of his academic privileges, coordinating a witch hunt against him,” Winkfield said.

“Fryer survived Gay’s crusade of discharge but Fryer’s lab was shut down, his reputation tarnished.”

The author continued: “No one in good faith should defend President Gay because she is the first black president of Harvard. Even if you don’t agree with me that our racial struggle is in our past, someone who has targeted black male professors has waived any benefit of the ‘first black’ defense.”

Gay didn’t immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment about Twyman’s claims.

His criticism comes just weeks after one of the academics who accused Gay of ripping off her work claimed Harvard wouldn’t condemn their prez because it holds “high pedigree” minorities to lower standards than others.

“Harvard can’t condemn Ms. Gay because she is the product of an elite system that holds minorities of high pedigree to a lower standard,” Carol Swain, a former political science professor at Vanderbilt University, wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.

“This harms academia as a whole, and it demeans Americans, of all races, who had to work for everything they earned.”

Gay was hit with accusations that she lifted scholars’ works in her 1997 doctoral thesis and wrote four papers published between 1993 and 2017 that didn’t have proper attribution.

The Harvard Corporation — the school’s highest governing body — later disclosed that an independent review into the plagiarism allegations uncovered three instances of “inadequate citation” on her part, but no misconduct.