Simon & Schuster’s Disgrace

Imagine a world in which the late Cambridge University professor Jason Arday had released a widely-hyped book published by Simon & Schuster, one of the Big Five publishing houses, then embarked on a book tour, and nobody said anything. For such a thing to have happened to a "renowned sociologist," a "highly respected scholar of race," "the youngest Black person ever appointed to a professorship at Cambridge"—well, that would have been racist. Instead, when Arday’s Great and Unfortunate Things was released earlier this month and some, including the Washington Free Beacon, had the temerity to scrutinize his obviously absurd life story, well, that was racist too. "He couldn’t see a way out because of this avalanche of stories," Arday’s friend Kehinde Andrews told the UK’s Channel 4 News, laying the blame for Arday’s suicide on Friday at the feet of "the media." The post Simon & Schuster’s Disgrace appeared first on .

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