Happy Black History Month

[Louie Detroit]

Does anyone have any special plans to enjoy during the month long celebration of black contributions to America?

[04 commemorative]

no.

[Unsuspicious]

I called my dad

[Rodnok1]

I plan on not turning the TV on for the entire month.

[Swany00]

party like it's 1999

[LATB]

Eff black history month. And FJB

[Bill]

Update property and car insurance coverage?

Don't stop in urban areas at night?

Don't stop in urban areas during the day, either?

[Onebadcad]

Good thing they picked FEB.

[ratflinger]

Yep, I'm going to hold a Black person back.

[69camfrk]

Shit cuz cuz I dindunuffin.

[KenHorse]

Please join me in celebrating White Jew Month

[zsr22]

Originally Posted by bill_daniels

Update property and car insurance coverage?

Don't stop in urban areas at night?

Don't stop in urban areas during the day, either?

That's honestly sad.

[Louie Detroit]

Originally Posted by Onebadcad

Good thing they picked FEB.

Fortunately it’s a leap year so we have an extra day this month to honor Black History.

[Anjdog2003]

Black History Month
Gay Pride Month
Memorial Day

[Onebadcad]

^^^ points well made

[Bill]

Celebrating black excellence in history: Tippu Tip

~businessman
~employer of thousands of black people
~helped thousands of other blacks to find full time employment
~husband and father


https://worldhistoryedu.com/tippu-ti...ers-in-africa/

Tippu Tip: One of the most powerful and wealthiest slave traders in Africa

by World History Edu · March 20, 2023
Tippu Tip: One of the most powerful and wealthiest slave traders in the 19th century

Tippu Tip – one of the richest slave traders on the African continent in the late 19th century

Tippu Tip was a successful ivory and brutal slave trader whose famous expeditions saw him rise to become the leader of Arab traders in Africa. For several years, he ensured that the Arabs had full control over East Africa’s trade routes until it was challenged following the arrival of the Belgians and other Europeans.

Much of the wealth he amassed came on the sweat and toil of slave labor, which he employed to transport ivory to the coast. It’s estimated that by the time of his death in 1901, the slave trader owned more than six plantations and over 9500 slaves.

So, who really was Tippu Tip, and how did he become one of the wealthiest slave traders of the late 19th-century?

[Mike Mercury]

[Bill]

Celebrating black excellence: Haaaavvvvaaaard 'Chief Diversity Officer'

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...least-40-times

"Entirely Counterfeit": Harvard's Chief Diversity Officer Plagiarized At Least 40 Times According To Complaint

by Tyler Durden
Thursday, Feb 01, 2024 - 08:55 AM

Weeks after the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay over a plagiarism scandal, the university's chief diversity and inclusion officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, has been accused of doing the same.


According to a Monday complaint filed with the university, as well as an analysis by the Washington Free Beacon's Aaron Sibarium, large portions of Charleston's work very clearly appears to have been lifted from others without so much as quotation marks. She even took credit for her own husband's work, according to the report.

The complaint makes 40 allegations of plagiarism that span the entirety of Charleston's thin publication record. In her 2009 dissertation, submitted to the University of Michigan, Charleston quotes or paraphrases nearly a dozen scholars without proper attribution, the complaint alleges. And in her sole peer-reviewed journal article—coauthored with her husband, LaVar Charleston, in 2014—the couple recycle much of a 2012 study published by LaVar Charleston, the deputy vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, framing the old material as new research.

Through that sleight of hand, Sherri Ann Charleston effectively took credit for her husband's work. The 2014 paper, which was also coauthored with Jerlando Jackson, now the dean of Michigan State University's College of Education, and appeared in the Journal of Negro Education, has the same methods, findings, and description of survey subjects as the 2012 study, which involved interviews with black computer science students and was first published by the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. -Free Beacon

As Sibarium notes on X:

"The 2014 paper appears to be entirely counterfeit," said Peter Wood, the head of the National Association of Scholars and a former associate provost at Boston University.

"This is research fraud pure and simple."

Prior to joining Harvard in August 2020, Charleston was the chief affirmative action officer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After joining Harvard, she served on the staff advisory committee which helped choose Claudine Gay as president in December 2022, the Harvard Crimson reports. Charleston taught gender studies courses at the University of Wisconsin, while her bio describes her as "one of the nation's leading experts in diversity" whose work involves "translating diversity and inclusion research into practice for students, staff, researchers, postdoctoral fellows and faculty of color."

It apparently also includes copious use of 'ctrl-c' and 'ctrl-v.'

"Sherri Charleston appears to have used somebody else's research without proper attribution," said former Villanova University political theory professor, Steve McGuire, who reviewed two of Charleston's papers, the Beacon reports.

[LATB]

Originally Posted by Onebadcad

^^^ points well made

…way up firm and high…

[slewfoot]

Originally Posted by KenHorse

Please join me in celebrating White Jew Month