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On Friday, former Cambridge scholar Jason Arday died. The reason for his passing hasn’t been released, but given the circumstances surrounding the last few weeks of his life, one can make certain assumptions.

Police are saying that “his death is being treated as unexpected, but is not believed to be suspicious,” which sounds as close to confirmation of some form of suicide as can be ascertained at this point.

This is indeed a tragedy, but it was authored by Arday’s lies and the institution, the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, that pretended to believe them and thus enabled his fall. He was an academic star not just because he was the youngest black professor in the institution’s history, but he was also apparently an elite, world-class athlete who was non-verbal until 11, couldn’t read until age 18, and yet had earned a Ph.D. and raised millions of dollars for charity.

All of this was verifiably false, and that verification came (publicly, anyhow) just weeks before his memoir containing all this falsity in the form of an easy-to-fact-check compendium was to be released.

His academic work, such as it was, was thin, sloppy, and plagiarized, something that could have been easily discovered years ago — and was, incidentally, but suppressed by Arday’s lawyers. Cambridge, for its part, defended him vigorously until it realistically couldn’t, making the fall both a fait accompli and that much more devastating when it came.

In short, Arday was a self-evidently unwell man, and Cambridge his enthusiastic enabler. The fault lies there, and only there.

But not to another antiracist educator, Ibram X. Kendi, a man who we also thought had shrunk into the mire of mid-level academia after his own scandals. The title of his essay in The Emancipator, an outlet he co-founded, speaks for itself: “The Media Lynched Jason Arday.”

“His death left me so devastated I had no words when the news broke,” Kendi began his Saturday piece. “But I woke up this morning with words.”

Those words, such as they were, will surprise no one familiar with Kendi’s work:

To be a prominent antiracist Black scholar is to know you are a target, almost totally surrounded by resentments…  The attacks are wielded by racist propagandists, resenting you for shining a light on anti-Black racism. They hope everyone finally picks up their baseless claims. They know that to dim your........

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