Sole Finalist For U. Florida President Backpedals After Campaigning on DEI for Years

Justine Brooke Murray | May 16, 2025
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As if our college campuses weren’t already breeding grounds for Maoism, the University of Florida’s sole presidential finalist is pretending he hasn’t campaigned on training the next generation of woke foot soldiers all along.

“Systemic racism is embedded in every corner of every institution,” Santa Ono proclaimed when he was the University of British Columbia’s president.

“And so the only way to solve it is to have everyone doing their part,” he continued, encouraging every student and professor to “look at themselves inside, asking what parts of me are racist.”

According to Ono, “everybody” is apparently a bigot who “has implicit bias.” Therefore, he concluded, “educational institutions, especially our universities, really have to be a starting point for cultural change… for behavioral change.’

That’s why he made “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” his “legacy,” patting himself on the back for doing the “hardest thing that a leader would set out to do.” By that, he means forcing parents to dump their wallets every year, so he can turn their spoiled brats into good little comrades. 

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In 2022, he continued his “inclusive” legacy as president of the University of Michigan, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to train Marxist professors.

“There's so much work that needs to be done. It’s one thing to shine a light on systemic racism. It’s one thing to systematically really change the laws and the behaviors that are behind that systemic racism,” Ono had preached.

His solution? Helping his campus turn systematically Judenrein, by brushing off Jewish students who were held at gunpoint under his watch. 

Now that President Donald Trump is holding our indoctrination camps accountable, the state of Florida has begun targeting "woke" educational systems, and DEI is no longer trendy, Ono has suddenly changed his tune.

 After insisting he’s never supported the racist practice, the finalist claims he’s the one who “made the decision to eliminate central DEI offices,” taking all the credit for supporting “merit-based achievement” at UMich, even when “it wasn’t universally popular.” 

He insists he will apply his newly-adopted values to his next position at the University of Florida. But chances are, he will be remembered as a walking contradiction.

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