UCLA lastly fired its DEI chief months after the woke administrator publicly celebrated the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk — however now he’s begging for donations to assist together with his pets.
Jonathan Perkins, UCLA’s director of Variety, Fairness and Inclusion, was lastly given the ax in a letter on Friday after he gushed he was “glad” concerning the vicious homicide of the Turning Level USA founder.
“Given the character of your position as a Director of Race and Fairness, the college has decided that this conduct considerably undermined belief in your management and adversely affected the workplace’s effectiveness and credibility,” the college informed him in a termination letter obtained by the Los Angeles Instances.
His final day on the payroll for the $137,000-a-year gig was Jan. 30, based on the letter. It’s not clear what took the college so lengthy to make its dedication.
Perkins intends to file a lawsuit difficult his dismissal, claiming he was exercising his proper to free speech when he made the feedback on social media within the quick aftermath of the killing on Sept. 10, 2025.
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“It’s OKAY to be joyful when somebody who hated you and referred to as in your individuals’s dying dies — even when they’re murdered,” the woke administrator stated on Bluesky.
Perkins, who’s black, wrote on Bluesky, trashed Kirk for feedback suggesting black individuals had been much less violent earlier than the civil rights motion.
“Good riddance,” the range skilled stated. “I’m at all times glad when bigots die.”
Perkins is shifting again to his hometown in Philadelphia and can also be elevating cash by way of a GoFundMe marketing campaign to assist together with his relocation and authorized charges, including that he had “devoted my private {and professional} life to preventing racism inside greater schooling.”
“This termination by UCLA, a authorities establishment, is a transparent violation of my First Modification proper to free speech, amongst others,” he wrote on the web page.
Up to now, he has raised $10,000 and is searching for assist for his two canines and cats. The objective is to lift practically $25,000.
Perkins is a lawyer and beforehand labored within the normal counsel’s workplace at Harvard earlier than shifting to the West Coast.
This isn’t the primary time Perkins has made controversial remarks. His Bluesky and different social media exercise has criticized the Trump administration, Division of Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem and ICE.
“It boils right down to me and different Black individuals and different brown individuals … merely not being unhappy that this man who was so overtly hateful was towards all of us,” Perkins, the grandson of civil rights activist John M. Perkins of Mississippi, informed the Instances.
