Academic racism is an intellectualized and race-based ideology of hatred fostered and propagated in classrooms and newsrooms. In this article, William Howard asserts that rather than transparent, unadorned, visceral hatred, academic racism consists of a maze of theory that conceals visceral hatred under a veneer of intellectualism and enlightenment. Its object is to attain political power. Now that the woke have attained that power, they intend, with the leadership of the President of the United States, to institutionalize their own racism. He goes on to say that those who authorize themselves to accuse others of racism are the racists themselves. Further, he argues that the ideology of academic racism has been concocted in the laboratory of leftist ideologies: American universities. Academic racism is not about remediation of a social problem; it is about discrediting and demoralizing the citizens of a country as a pretext for taking it over. Howard resolves that academic racism is intellectual futility transformed into hatred and power-seeking. But if educators teach students the thought of Yeats, Ellul, Orwell, Arendt, and other champions of freedom, they can equip them to detect and reject malicious racial propaganda and discover truthful principles. And one day they can look back and say that academic racism was just academic after all.