No public evidence shows Ryan Gabriel expressing racial prejudice, hatred, or advocating discrimination against any group.
He is a Black BYU sociology professor whose research and teaching focus on residential segregation, historical racial violence, and race. In his 2021 BYU devotional he called racism a sin, rejected claims of racial superiority, and urged healing through Christ. Critics cite his engagement with Ibram X. Kendi’s ideas and discussions of racial hierarchy as promoting divisive or anti-white views, but those remain matters of ideological disagreement rather than documented personal racism.