Black Professor Accused of Plagiarism
by Jeff Davis
Are you an “Affikin-Amerkin” in the groves of Academe? Dusky of skin and not terribly bright? In trouble because you got caught stealing your latest papers from some Dead White European male? Well, here’s a tactic that makes little sense but apparently works: Holler “hate” and -Bob’s your uncle- you’re off the hook!
The Associated Press reports: “A Columbia University professor whose colleagues found a noose hanging from her office doorway will remain on staff despite being sanctioned for plagiarism, school officials said Thursday. The university’s Teachers College announced Wednesday it had imposed ’serious sanctions’ against Madonna G. Constantine. The college said a lengthy investigation uncovered numerous instances in which she used others’ work without attribution in papers she published in academic journals over the past five years.”
Not just one, but repeated acts of plagiarism. Do I need to state that any white academic who did any such thing would be hitting the street so hard he’d bounce? (more…)