Hughes: Claims of Daily Campus White Supremacy at Columbia Contradicted Reality
Coleman Hughes · How the Left Weaponized Slavery · Joe Lonsdale · May 29, 2026 · at 7:28
Author and commentator Coleman Hughes reflects with Joe Lonsdale on his college years at Columbia University and how ideological race narratives on campus contrasted with his daily experience.
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“White supremacy is ever present, even at campuses like Columbia, which are extremely progressive, and this all was very confusing to me, because I was seeing my fellow black students at Columbia say things like, I experience white supremacy every day on this campus. So I was, you know, a nineteen-year-old black kid, like, looking around for this white supremacy, waiting for it to hit me, and it was never coming. And so I became curious About the distance between narrative and what was clearly my lived and the kind of all of our lived experiences on campus.”
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