An official with the UCLA Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Office was placed on leave after celebrating the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk by writing, “it’s okay to be happy when a racist who called for your eradication dies” on social media.
Sources at the college told the Los Angeles Times that Johnathan Perkins, director of race and equity, wrote in a series of since-deleted social media posts on Bluesky that “You can’t force people to mourn someone who hated us — no matter how he died,” in response to a post about Kirk’s killing last week, according to screenshots obtained by the Times.
“It is OKAY to be happy when someone who hated you and called for your people’s death dies — even if they are murdered,” Perkins, who is Black, reportedly added according to the Times.
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