Today’s white thought criminal, Mary Willingham
Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
A tip ‘o the hate to the Countenance Blogmeister.
Given the times, the following article is very courageous. However, I must rebuke author Paul M. Barrett for his one moment of (necessary) triangulation. He writes,
“No right-thinking person has questioned the legitimacy of researching and teaching the history of Africans or African Americans.”
Wrong! Black studies is almost always a scam, with whites’ money being siphoned away to fill the pockets of lying race hustlers. There is no excuse for any such departments or “programs” to exist. The founding of such programs was never for scholarly purposes, but rather for the sake of building black supremacist power bases. The legitimacy of the scholarly study of racial history is a completely different matter than the subsidization of organized crime in the form of an “African, African American and Diaspora Studies Department.”
The black affirmative action professors, staffers, and students who are race-baiting anyone who tells the truth about them, perfectly understand this.
Note an irony that reporter Paul M. Barrett either didn’t catch, or couldn’t mention: The black critic of UNC’s black supremacist crooks is himself a black supremacist.
Phillip Jackson is head of the Black Star Project. The name marks him as an acolyte of the genocidal black supremacist, Marcus Garvey (1887-1940).
[Jackson:] “As a black man in America, I find it appalling that the University of North Carolina’s Black Caucus would choose to issue a declaration of support to defend UNC even after the university admitted that it cheated young black men out of the best education possible on its campus.” Jackson, a former corporate executive and public servant who has served Chicago in roles such as chief of education and assistant city budget director, added: “Maybe these esteemed faculty and staff of the UNC Black Caucus don’t realize that their university students are not just competing among themselves in the big cities and small towns of North Carolina. Maybe they don’t understand that being globally competent is a way ‘bigger game’ than football or basketball!”
Viewing the Chapel Hill mess from Chicago, Jackson appears to have better perspective than some of the university’s employees. Here’s hoping his letter gets wide circulation in North Carolina and beyond.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Companies and Industries
UNC Academic Fraud
Scandal Sparks Racial
Recriminations
By Paul M. BarrettFollow
February 04, 2014
The North Carolina Tar Heels basketball team (Photograph by Peyton Williams/UNC/Getty Images)
The University of North Carolina academic fraud scandal has entered its Tom Wolfe phase, revealing a racial subtext of the uniquely ironic and bitter American variety.
To review: The prestigious Chapel Hill campus of UNC has become the battlefield of the moment in the continuing unrest within NCAA Inc.—the multibillion-dollar business that is college sports. Carolina officials have admitted that beginning in the mid-1990s, the school’s African, African American and Diaspora Studies Department hosted hundreds of phony classes to generate fake grades that kept Tar Heel basketball and football players eligible to play. After years of trying to minimize the sports-eligibility motivation behind the corruption of the black studies program, UNC in recent weeks has yielded to heightening outside pressure and conceded that it had failed to acknowledge the depth of this fiasco.
Despite this public retreat, the university’s administration has persisted in demonizing a campus tutor named Mary Willingham, who played a critical role in disclosing the scandal. UNC has also insinuated that media coverage of its troubles has been unfair. Now Black professors and staff members at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill are acting as a group to defend UNC and lash out at critics Story: Four Blunt Points About UNC, College Sports, and Academic Corruption
In a statement dated Feb. 1, the Carolina Black Caucus, a campus group, declared: “We stand united for black Americans, both enslaved and free, who built this university and who were also barred from its doors.” The caucus added that it stands united for “black athletes who face stereotype, threat, and are targets of ridicule”; “the Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies, which has been unfairly attacked, overly investigated, and whose legitimacy has been repeatedly questioned”; [and] “courageous [crooked, racist] administrators, faculty, staff, and students who press on despite impatience, media inaccuracies, gossip, and public attacks on our institution.”
Whoa. The Carolina Black Caucus has this situation precisely upside-down. That UNC’s black studies department was cynically exploited is now beyond dispute. The corruption cannot be wished away. No right-thinking person has questioned the legitimacy of researching and teaching the history of Africans or African Americans. Since the former black studies department chairman was forced to retire in 2012 (late last year he was also criminally indicted for fraud), the program has begun a rebuilding process. But that doesn’t erase that for many years, black athletes and other students were encouraged to take pretend classes that did nothing for their intellectual development or career prospects.
The sordid affair hasn’t been “overly investigated.” To the contrary, UNC has resisted getting to the bottom of it—especially the degree of culpability of the Tar Heels Athletic Department. Appointed last summer, Chancellor Carol Folt belatedly has admitted that UNC still hasn’t gotten its arms around a scandal that forced her predecessor to step down in humiliation. This is not a made-up controversy based on “media inaccuracies” or “gossip.” Story: Scandal Bowl: UNC Suspends Research by Academic Fraud Whistle-Blower
Thankfully, Phillip Jackson, executive director of a Chicago education reform group called the Black Star Project, has stepped up to set matters straight. In a Feb. 3 letter thst [sic] he has sent to dozens of newspapers in North Carolina, Jackson wrote: “As a black man in America, I find it appalling that the University of North Carolina’s Black Caucus would choose to issue a declaration of support to defend UNC even after the university admitted that it cheated young black men out of the best education possible on its campus.” Jackson, a former corporate executive and public servant who has served Chicago in roles such as chief of education and assistant city budget director, added: “Maybe these esteemed faculty and staff of the UNC Black Caucus don’t realize that their university students are not just competing among themselves in the big cities and small towns of North Carolina. Maybe they don’t understand that being globally competent is a way ‘bigger game’ than football or basketball!”
Viewing the Chapel Hill mess from Chicago, Jackson appears to have better perspective than some of the university’s employees. Here’s hoping his letter gets wide circulation in North Carolina and beyond.
NOTE: Peter Grauer, the chairman of Bloomberg L.P., which owns Bloomberg Businessweek, is a trustee of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and sits on its Foundation Board and the UNC Global Research Institute Board.
Barrett, an assistant managing editor and senior writer at Bloomberg Businessweek, is working on a book about the Chevron oil pollution case in Ecuador, which is scheduled for publication by Crown in 2014. His most recent book is GLOCK: The Rise of America’s Gun.
2 comments:
Programs designed to give a boost to the football and basketball players. Of course. A boost and to a certain demographic too.
Nothing more important than sports and having a WINNING basketball or football team.
There was a similar scandal at the University of Georgia 30 years ago. A tutor named Jan Kemp made the same charges and was fired. She sued Georgia and was awarded over a million dollars.
You see, it never changes. If illiterate ball players were refused admittance, you can picture the howls from the Usual Suspects.
David In TN
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