So sad: [Seattle] began phasing out its Highly Capable Cohort schools and classrooms for advanced students in the 2021-22 school year because they found it had too many racial inequities. School bosses said black and Hispanic students were underrepresented at … Continue reading →
Jonathan Diller of the NYPD was shot by a career criminal with 21 arrests to his name: Diller, who left behind a wife and infant son, was shot to death by a recidivist; that is, a repeat criminal. But this … Continue reading →
Jayden Perkins was the 11-year-old Chicago boy murdered trying to protect his pregnant mother from a violent ex-boyfriend who’d been let out on parole. Jayden was an innocent boy attempting a heroic deed against a bigger, stronger, armed assailant. And … Continue reading →
Here’s another case alleging research misconduct by a DEI academician: The chief diversity officer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, LaVar Charleston, who also teaches at the university’s school of education, has a decades-long track record of research misconduct, according to … Continue reading →
First, an excerpt from the article by Simon Deng, entitled: “First They Came for My People, Then They Came for the Jews: A South Sudanese former slave recognized the Palestinian pogrom on Oct. 7”: My name is Simon Aban Deng. … Continue reading →
Claudine Gay has gotten the most press recently, but there are more allegations of plagiarism at Harvard in the DEI area: Harvard University’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, appears to have plagiarized extensively in her academic work, … Continue reading →
What a complex man! Inspirational, courageous, transformative, flawed in his private life. People continue to argue about what he stood for in terms of the relationship between black people and white people, and what he’d be saying about it all … Continue reading →
Commenter “Mike K” writes: The sad and infuriating thing about what was done to Roland Fryer is that he was a genuine academic star. No need for that thumb on the scale or affirmative action. The book “The Bell Curve” … Continue reading →
Another aspect of Claudine Gay’s illustrious career as a Harvard administrator: …[I]n the face of numerous mounting scandals, many are defending Gay by claiming that the attacks against her are racial in nature. They are not. They are all well … Continue reading →
I assume she’ll now achieve a sort of martyr status on the left: the racist right plus the Jews drove her out, or something like that. At any rate, Gay has resigned. I believe it was more the plagiarism evidence … Continue reading →
There is no better illustration of the extremity of Harvard’s double standards based on identity politics than the difference between the school’s treatment of Harvard presidents Larry Summers and Claudine Gay. Summers probably could never even be chosen as Harvard’s … Continue reading →
First, the old Eddie Murphy sketch. On watching it again after many years, I’m struck by the fact that, although I had remembered the first two bits – in the store; and the party on the bus – I had … Continue reading →