Black women experience institutional barriers at every stage of the academic process, starting with admission into graduate programs, yielding a small pool of credentialed graduates available for tenure-track faculty positions. Then the tenure process further culls the herd. Many non-Black faculty fail to recognize the system at work and their personal complicity in proactively upholding it. Instead, they choose to believe that people’s success is primarily linked to their own achievements, instead of acknowledging that the system was specifically designed to work for them and affirm the continual advancement of white scholars at the expense of Black and brown achievement.