When I worked in corporate America in my late 20s-early 30s, I was on an email thread with a few co-workers: one of them Hispanic, the other Asian. I corrected one co-worker on a misspelling of an Asian name, and that co-worker replied with a laugh and acknowledged their mistake. I jokingly wrote back to them, “Yeah, they all look alike.” But when replying, I accidentally hit a button that broadcast that message to the entire organization. You know what? I got fired for that, and I accepted being fired and didn’t make excuses. It was on me: I should have been more careful in a company setting with the company’s resources, and they were well within their rights to terminate my employment.
So, in light of these doctors, nurses, teachers, and administrators who decided to show their lack of humanity over the assassination of Charlie Kirk, were exposed, and are now suffering the consequences, I have decided to coin a new acronym: They Messed Around and Met Reality or MAMR.
Read ’em and Weep: Vile Charlie Kirk Posts From Healthcare Workers Make Me Ashamed to Say I Once Worked in the Field
You see, in a reality-based world, you may have freedom of speech, but what you don’t have is freedom from consequences. That would be called grace, and many of these garbage humans couldn’t even give that to Kirk’s memory or his family; so, why do they expect to get it in return?
The latest to be MAMRed is the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) director of Race and Equity, Office of Inclusive Excellence. Yeah, it’s still a thing. His name is Jonathan Perkins, and school choice evangelist Corey DeAngelis posted on X that this long-standing employee used his X and BlueSky accounts to dance on Kirk’s grave. When DeAngelis flagged down UCLA and said something like, “Come get yo boi,” UCLA actually paid attention. The university placed Perkins on administrative leave.
BREAKING: The “Director of Race and Equity” at UCLA has been placed on leave after I exposed his disgusting comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassination. pic.twitter.com/mtffwFDE8V
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) September 15, 2025
The University of California, Los Angeles has placed its controversial race and equity director, Johnathan Perkins, on leave after he celebrated conservative commentator Charlie Kirk’s assassination in a series of social media posts.
Perkins, a veteran diversity consultant who worked in the Office of the General Counsel at Harvard University before joining UCLA in 2019, took to left-wing X copycat Bluesky on Friday to disparage Kirk. In one post, he responded to a user who called Kirk the right’s “Rush Limbaugh replacement” with the message, “Yup. Good riddance, both.” In another, he wrote, “It is OKAY to be happy when someone who hated you and called for your people’s death dies—even if they are murdered.”
He seems nice. DeAngelis’ X thread has even worse posts, which I won’t repeat here. You get the idea.
When the Washington Free Beacon contacted UCLA about the posts on Friday, the school first provided a statement that condemned “any statement in the strongest possible terms that celebrates or condones violence” but did not reveal whether Perkins would face discipline. UCLA sent a follow-up statement Sunday evening revealing Perkins is on leave.
“UCLA has placed a campus employee on immediate leave and has launched an investigation following reports of social media posts regarding the murder of Charlie Kirk,” the statement reads. “While free expression is a core value of UCLA, violence of any kind—including the celebration of it—is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated.”
Slow golf clap. If only UCLA had taken this stance when the Free Palestine lot took over their campus in 2024. But, I digress.
This all occurred last week, before Kirk was even buried. However, Perkins is not taking being MAMRed very well. This is our shocked face.
Last Monday, Perkins sent a statement to the L.A. Times, admitting that he did the crime, but figured he would skirt doing the time. MAMRed, once again!
In an emailed statement to The Times, Perkins said the posts were “written in my own hand, in my own voice, in no way the echo of my employer, UCLA.” He said the posts are also protected by the 1st Amendment.
“It’s a truly sad day. My livelihood could ultimately be threatened for stating, in the clearest terms, that I felt no grief at the death of an avowed white nationalist — [a] man who dedicated his life to despising mine, to despising my people, to despising our very existence,” Perkins wrote. “I am devastated to learn of higher ed colleagues around the country, facing similar and much worse consequences, including termination. I admit, I thought UCLA was different. I hope we are.”
Perkins even posted on his LinkedIn that he is the victim of white supremacy, racism, and Project 2025, or something like that.
He is still doubling down while on leave: “My livelihood could ultimately be threatened for stating, in the clearest terms, that I felt no grief at the death of an avowed white nationalist.” pic.twitter.com/4E4LSE0JvW
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) September 16, 2025
Black and brown professors and higher ed administrators like me are being put on leave, even terminated—
—largely due to extortion threats like the one UCLA is currently negotiating with the Christian White Nationalist Trump administration.
Unfortunately, universities and other #government organizations around the nation will attempt to justify these unconstitutional acts of retaliation by identifying and claiming some technical violation.
Everything we are witnessing right now is part of Project 2025’s implementation. It’s all really happening. So, so many of us tried to warn you.
People in academia hold the public trust and a civic responsibility. The expectation is that you received those higher degrees, tenure, salary, whatever, because you could be held to a higher standard. So, celebrating the violent murder of someone you disagree with is not only disturbing, but scraping the bottom of the barrel as standards go. What makes it worse? Saying you are being targeted because you’re “Black and brown.” Miss me on that. These people are a complete embarrassment to this Black person who holds advanced degrees and thinks that the first requirement for working with humans is that you actually pretend to be one.
Perkins and his lot would also be an embarrassment to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. They love to drape themselves in his legacy, but have never bothered to actually read his words. Here is what King said about hating one’s enemies.
There’s another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates…. For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That’s what hate does.
So, Perkins is not only doing it all wrong, but he continues to do damage to himself and whatever career he thinks he has in the process. But I think Booker T. Washington was best at isolating Perkins and his ilk:
There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
Perkins may not lose his job, but he may have to find someplace else to air his grievances. Either that or find a new grift. That basement for bottom dwellers must be getting pretty crowded.
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