Comments on: Howard University snags quite the prize: Kendi

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:48:08 +0000

There is fu money and then there is fumore money. Harvard has that in spades.

By: R2L

R2L — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:32:48 +0000

AppleBetty on April 4, 2026 at 1:01 pm:
“Part of college is leaning to ignore pressure and make the right choice for yourself.”
Agree. I was pledging a fraternity and just decided it was not for me, so I dropped out of that path. But that may also have had some repercussions per the following:

“I have a BS and a PhD in engineering from two top ten schools, and I’m a slow learner.”
So do I (maybe from a top 10 and a top 20 school). I didn’t have much trouble with the classwork, but some things about people skills and work politics and social politics were where I was “slow”. I was not wise about career planning and the related networking, glad handing, etc. And I was 65, 5 years after retiring, when I realized some of the mistakes I thought I had made could also be laid at the feet of the institution not managing my program as well as they should have.
Slow learning takes many forms. 🙂

By: AppleBetty

AppleBetty — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:01:05 +0000

Art Deco: schools whose pace of instruction is suboptimal for them because too rapid.

In college your course load is your choice, subject to some pressure from the advising office. When I chose 4-5 classes/quarter, I got C’s and often had to drop a class. When I chose 3/quarter, I got B’s and A’s. Part of college is leaning to ignore pressure and make the right choice for yourself. Students who do that can graduate in almost any field, from almost any school. (I have a BS and a PhD in engineering from two top ten schools, and I’m a slow learner.)

By: CICERO

CICERO — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:23:38 +0000

@ Art Deco- ” State legislatures could repair this problem (at least at public institutions), but they do nothing.”
That’s the ultimate trouble with democracies: the Trash votes and is pandered to; therein lies the insoluble problem.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:09:54 +0000

KH belonged to a sorority while at Howard. Mr. Sailer pulled up a newspaper account of her meeting up with some old sisters at an event at Howard. In his view, that’s the social milieu in which KH is most at home.
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Harmeet Dhillon was acquainted with KH thirty-odd years ago. She’s been puzzled by KH’s inability to speak intelligibly and said she didn’t used to be like that.
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My guess is that she feared going to a more competitive college.
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The right place for her mother or her father wasn’t necessarily the right place for her. Given her upbringing, Howard was an odd choice, not necessarily a bad choice. In the black population at large, a more prevalent issue is that of black youth being recruited as ornamentation by schools whose pace of instruction is suboptimal for them because too rapid.
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In re Kendi and diAngelo, they’re parody academicians. Their careers are fairly gross manifestations of the degree to which higher education is a patronage mill for privileged political interests and for favored demographic segments. State legislatures could repair this problem (at least at public institutions), but they do nothing.

By: huxley

huxley — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:36:06 +0000

Kamala Harris is a Howard graduate. I’m sure her high-powered academic parents could have gotten her into a better school, but she wanted to go to a black school instead,

My guess is that she feared going to a more competitive college. My theory about Harris is that she didn’t think she could live up to her parents’ successes. She strikes me as a person who has taken the easier way for most of her life.

By: R2L

R2L — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:15:08 +0000

As I was scrolling through Neo’s posts to yesterday’s Open Thread, I guess my eyes saw the images making up the work Howard, but by the time those nerve pulses got to my brain, my brain saw Harvard. Thus my thought was “yes, of course, that fits and makes sense!”.

When even the traditionally black colleges end up pursuing “the soft bigotry of low expectations” by enlisting subpar “talent”, they don’t improve race relations one bit. Very sad, to end up providing a good example of a bad example.

By: Sennacherib

Sennacherib — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:41:39 +0000

Neo,
I found this: https://substack.com/@clarionx/note/c-224266922?r=6wwgao

By: Skip

Skip — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:14:01 +0000

Culture Marxism Seminaries teaching Marxism

By: CICERO

CICERO — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:06:19 +0000

How bizarre and totally immoral for “Historically black” and yet proudly, stupidly still-insistantly black colleges and universities to proclaim their racial bias and animus while snarfing, er feeding, at the federal tax money trough.
Well, I ain’t capitalizing “black”. Never have, never will.