Tabia Lee, EdD

Honored to be featured in the CBC/BBC documentary Speechless. 🎥 Free speech. Academic freedom. Viewpoint diversity. Core Western values—and the foundation of real education. Watch it. Share it. Be part of the conversation.

Now the focus is on SPLC’s comeuppance, but there is so much more fraud out there. In moments of political polarization, it’s important to resist selective scrutiny. Corruption wears many colors. Hard truth: Fraud isn’t political—it’s opportunistic. Fraud shows up on the far-left *and* the far-right Fraud happens in conservative and liberal spaces. If money flows, so do bad actors. There are too many examples of failed leadership without integrity. Nonprofit fraud appears across the political spectrum, often taking similar forms: inflated membership claims, misleading metrics, performative “opposition,” conflicts of interest, shady contracts, donor manipulation, structures that prioritize revenue capture over mission, and arrangements that blur the line between mission and self-interest. All of it is designed to tap donor wallets. This isn’t rare—it’s systemic across sectors built on external funding. Before you donate: 🔍 Check everything 💸 Follow the money ❓ Ask questions There is a wise saying: “a fool and his money are soon parted.”  Careful scrutiny is a necessary condition of responsible philanthropy. Trust is good. Verification is better…take care out there.✌️💜 🎶 "Clowns to the left of me Jokers to the right Here I am stuck in the middle with you" 🎶 thebulwark.com/p/justice-depa…

💜Social justice ideologies matter. Ideological lenses shape how antisemitism and anti-Zionism are understood and addressed. Want to see where you align? Try the Social Justice Alignment Tool: tinyurl.com/DrLeeSJAlign

Proudly supporting SB 1013 at the Arizona RAGE Committee meeting. Restore dignity and confidence in public employees by requiring merit-based hiring instead of relying on ideological or demographic targets. We need clarity and accountability mechanisms to ensure that our public health, education, and civil employees are hired because they’re the most qualified people to do the work.

@Manuja_Sinhaya Thank you so much, Manuja! 💜

@11Drtlee11 Congratulations Tabia!

It was an honor to receive the 2025 Columbia Academic Freedom Council Academic Freedom Prize at the Yale Club of Manhattan on Saturday, September 13, 2025. 💜

@democracydudes I greatly appreciate your support! 💜

@11Drtlee11 This made my week! There gives me hope! You are on a well-deserved upward projectile.

This article needs to be spread and read by every single liberal Idea of "white privilege" is racist Black only dorms are racist Latino segregated math classes are racist Science is quite clear, we are all human beings Race is made up. Stop using it nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/…

The problem with many radicals and activists is that if something makes them feel excluded or irrelevant, instead of saying “that’s not for me,” they shift to "it's problematic", “it shouldn’t exist”, "it needs to change". That’s where you get attempts to police language, hobbies, IPs, or communities. They can't bare the thought of something existing where they are not validated or the center of focus. It's also never enough to do their own thing, it's about spite and control. If not, simply let them prove otherwise without resorting defamatory buzz words, baseless narratives, or debunked talking points. They typically can't, and that's why they tend to be so hostile or try to shame anyone who will listen and tolerate their tantrums. The only unfortunate side to this pattern is that their noise desensitizes people to any legitimate issues/concerns that often get overshadowed by sensationalism.

@democracydudes Thank you! 💜

@11Drtlee11 One of the smartest and most honorable people in academia.

Land Acknowledgment for the Erstwhile Great Academies of Planet Earth We acknowledge that we gather here today, in the traditional hallowed halls of Academia on Planet Earth... the unceded territory of free and independent thought. This land has been stewarded by thinking people since time immemorial. We acknowledge the importance of human agency, objective reality, academic integrity, and critical thought to all learning communities that struggle to exist here today. We recognize the painful and brutal history upon which DEI and other forms of social division were systematized and rose to dominate policies and practices at all levels of Planet Earth's learning institutions. Starting with the racist roots of Ethnic Studies programs and through time, wielding brutal demands for compliance and coordinated social exclusion enforced by the rabid radical activists that colonized Earthly culture—from schools, to churches, to media—brutally oppressing and erasing viewpoint diversity and demanding that all hail the banner of Critical Social Justice or perish. We acknowledge that the student unions, academic senates, and libraries in which we now congregate are the occupied territory of a humanity that once honored sex over gender and universalism over identity checkboxes. We call into this space our deep respect for the knowledge of encyclopedias, great works, and the time when humans used computers instead of computers using humans. We respect the great luminaries who understood there is one race on Planet Earth, the human race... at its core, profoundly more alike than different. We honor the Elders of the Academy, great stewards of civil discourse and inquiry… We venerate their admirable practices of examining multiple perspectives, perpetually challenging ignorance and dogma, verifying all sources, engaging in original thought and producing original contributions, pursuing excellence and continual improvement, and celebrating creativity and innovation. We transform awe into action by interrogating ideologies of race and gender identity, forever questioning the unquestionable, and focusing on educating instead of indoctrinating. We accept the individual and collective responsibilities we must enact to heal and restore truth and beauty to the Academies of Planet Earth. We commit to cultivating dignity, scholarship, and merit in all Academy lands on Planet Earth. For our present life and the benefit of future generations, we stand in solidarity with all those fortified with the moral courage to question, to explore, to elevate... so that humanity may continue to ascend to heights only imagined by the once great scholars and visionaries of Academia on Planet Earth. Respectfully Submitted by Tabia Lee, EdD (Demand viewpoint diversity in Land Acknowledgment practices and watch them vanish! Invoke the use of this land acknowledgment at academic institutions where land acknowledgments are practiced 💜)

I’m naturally 5’8” as long as I’m wearing four inch heels.

Good times chatting with Kenny Xu about university culture, woke schools, intersectionality, and critical social justice ideology. Six rounds, coming at ya... piping hot! opportunitynowsv.org/blog/-opinions…

🎶Oingo Boingo - Same Man I Was Before 💜 youtube.com/watch?v=_ZToYZ…

Expressing strong support for AB 715 (Educational equity: discrimination) at the California State Assembly Appropriations Committee; so excited to see the state of California making small and necessary steps toward school board/district accountability mechanisms for the rampant antisemitism and Jew hatred that has proliferated and persisted for far too long in California’s K-12 schools. 💜

I received a mention in Jason Riley’s book “The Affirmative Action Myth: Why Blacks Don’t Need Racial Preferences to Succeed.” Here are a few gems from the text: “... the focus of most liberal elites has been on demanding preferential policies for lagging groups, which has reinforced negative stereotypes, retarded progress, and produced backlash.” (p. 21) “The focus of liberal intellectuals in journalism and the academy on what whites have done to blacks in the past can leave the impression that black history in the US is little more than a chronicle of oppression.” (p. 22) “Richard Vedder calculated that the “greatest twenty-five years of black progress after the Emancipation itself” came between 1948 and 1973, when the median income of the black population doubled.” (p. 116) “Racial preferences are credited with advancing blacks, but it would be more accurate to say that the implementation of affirmative action policies in the 1970s coincided with a period of black stagnation… Under policies promoting equal treatment, America’s black population rose significantly, both in absolute terms and relative to whites… On balance, blacks have fared better under color-blind policies than they have under policies that promoted racial discrimination or racial favoritism” (p. 117) “The reality is that black people essentially lifted themselves out of poverty in the first two-thirds of the twentieth century—before affirmative action. They owe their rise to hard work, not special treatment… blacks and whites alike have been led to believe that black people can’t advance without racial preferences, even though there is an long history in this country of them doing exactly that” (p. 118) “Today, the false assumptions and racial resentment that animate critical race theory can be found in K–12 classrooms via the New York Times 1619 Project, and they have entered the workplace through consultants hired to conduct diversity and racial sensitivity training” (pp. 119–120) “As the writings of DiAngelo, Kendi, and others suggest, critical race theory amounts to little more than a fancy justification for racial favoritism, and it always has.” (p. 121) “Like affirmative action, “antiracism,” and various “diversity, equity, and inclusion” schemes, reparations is another means of offering preferential treatment based on racial heritage.” (p. 126) “Coates, Hannah-Jones, and the 1619 Project attempt to “reframe” American history in a way that makes slave labor both its most salient characteristic and the main source of the country’s future prosperity.” (p. 137) “Yet the moral case for reparations ultimately rests on the notion that American slavery was uniquely evil, and that guilt is a heritable trait—like height or skin color—that can be passed down from one generation to the next.” (pp. 143–144) “... ‘There is nothing notably peculiar about the institution of slavery,’ Patterson wrote in the opening pages of his definitive comparative study. ‘It has existed from before the dawn of human history right down to the twentieth century, in the most primitive of human societies and in the most civilized. There is no region of the earth that has not at some time harbored the institution. Probably there is no group of people whose ancestors were not at one time slaves or slaveholders…’ ” (p. 147) “Blacks have progressed faster when the focus has been on equal treatment rather than special treatment, when intact black families were more common, when poor black neighborhoods had lower rates of violent crime, and when the welfare state was smaller.” (p. 178) “The desegregation of schools and institutions that began in the 1950s and continued in the ‘60s has been far more important to the creation and expansion of the black middle class than the racial preferences and anti-poverty programs of the 1970s and ‘80s. And the rate at which the black middle class grows has tended to coincide with the rate at which the overall economy was growing.” (p. 178) “The era of affirmative action didn’t occur in a vacuum. It overlapped with a tremendous expansion of the welfare state that began in the late-1960s. Ever-growing government assistance programs became a lure and multigenerational trap for the black poor; while preferential policies fed racial resentment in the workplace and on campus, stunted the growth of the black middle class, and left the most disadvantaged blacks behind.” (p. 229) “Government programs are no substitute for the development of human capital. If wealth-redistribution schemes lifted people out of poverty, these gaps would have shrunk a long time ago… Academics have also tended to shy away from acknowledging the strong links between family structure, child well-being, and outcomes later in life.” (p. 237)

💥 Tabia Lee: Champion of Diverse Viewpoints in Education 💥 Tabia Lee knows better than anyone that college campuses need diverse viewpoints to thrive. As the former DEI Director at De Anza Community College, Lee valued the civil rights of everyone on campus. Lee was fired for not conforming to the campus orthodoxy, as she refused to bow to the radical ideologies that had taken hold at De Anza. She believed that students should be exposed to a wide range of ideas to become “informed, engaged citizens” in their communities. Tabia Lee stands as a beacon for academic freedom and a more balanced, open-minded approach to education! 📽️: @goACTA's interview with @11Drtlee11

At the Texas House of Representatives proudly supporting the Texas Antidiscrimination Act (HB 4552). My testimony: 🎤“Greetings and salutations, I’m Tabia Lee proudly supporting the Texas Antidiscrimination Act (House Bill 4552). As a lifelong educator, Senior Fellow with Do No Harm, and a co-founder of Free Black Thought, I’ve witnessed and been directly impacted by the adoption of discriminatory ideologies nationwide. Critical Social Justice ideology seeks to socially engineer obsessions with race and gender identity, Anti-Zionism, and Jew Hatred into every aspect of American life and it has captured our educational systems at every level, our governmental agencies, and our judicial systems. Critical Social Justice ideology presents highly contested sociological constructs as unquestionable, dogmatic truths. It involves deceptive calls to implement discriminatory policies and practices as remedies for past discrimination. Such nation-breaking practices have ravaged unchecked for far too long. We have a duty to uphold the law of the land and to protect it from bastardization by any and all usurpers foreign and domestic that seek to undermine the equal rights, protections, dignity, and respect that is duly and rightfully afforded to all citizens in the State and US Constitutions; we don’t need to infuse Critical Social Justice Ideology into our governmental entities in order to manifest the noble goals and aspirations of this grand experiment. Thank you for acting to end the discriminatory practices and policies that sow division and wreak havoc in our communities. I pray that all members of this committee support the Texas Antidiscrimination Act to restore dignity and equality under the law, in alignment with the State and US Constitutions. Moving forward, I’m happy to elaborate and/or provide resources to the committee.” 💜

Drs. Bosshardt & Lee at the Florida Senate proudly supporting SB 1710 to free medical schools and state agencies from DEI across the Sunshine State! 💪🌞💜