TRUMPISM, WHITE SUPREMACY, AND THE CAPSTONE

TRUMPISM, WHITE SUPREMACY, AND THE CAPSTONE

Trumpism downplays white supremacy.

The Howard University (The Capstone) administration downplays white supremacy.

ERGO: The Capstone is aligned with Trumpism

The Capstone of what? . . .  Could it be “Negro Mis-Education” (to cite Carter G. Woodson)?

TAKING INSANITY TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL

You are a University facing an existential crisis, a crisis of management. Your Spanish program is on the brink of extinction. So what do you do? You spend precious resources trying to harass, silence, and even fire the most senior faculty member in Spanish, someone who is demonstrably one of the University’s most productive scholars. And then you try to subject him to an incredibly incongruous PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT PLAN (PIP), WHICH, DE FACTO, PLACES HIM UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF A TEMPORARY INSTRUCTOR WHOSE HIGHEST DEGREE IN SPANISH IS THE B.A.

As The Donald would put it: “What the hell is wrong with these people?”

THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION'S ANTI-HISPANIC BIAS

In 1982, when the late Stanley Cyrus and I founded the Afro-Hispanic Institute and the Afro Hispanic Review, Howard University was the leading institution in the world in the field of Hispanophone Africana Studies. It was the only institution which offered the B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in this field. The upper administration of the University, however, had already targeted the Spanish, French, and Portuguese programs for extinction.

Is the upper administration of General Oliver Otis Howard’s university driven by an anti-Hispanic bias?