THE FINAL STRAW

President Wayne Alexander Ian Frederick declared under oath that my having skipped away to Panama and absented myself without authorization for the first two days of summer school 2017 and furthermore my having invited my wife to teach my classes in my stead constituted the final straw. He had been overly generous in giving me the opportunity to remediate my aberrant conduct by placing me on a Performance Improvement Plan for the academic year 2016-2017. But I had persisted in my deviant conduct, topping it off with this egregious violation of the rule and order established by the Faculty Handbook.

Alas, the goodly president appears not to understand that an academic institution is not a plantation. You can’t just mete out “justice”—like Mr. Gore did to Demby—without fulfilling the burden of proof, as the Faculty Handbook quite clearly states.

YOU HAVE TO LAUGH, WI!!

DOCUMENTATION AS UNLAWFUL

The witnesses who have been deposed in the closed sessions of the current Impeachment Inquiry have earned high praise for their custom of meticulously memorializing the misconduct of their higher-ups, that is to say, they “documented” everything. I myself have in my decades on the faculty of the nation’s premier HISTORICALLY BLACK university—named after an avowed white supremacist—have sought to “document” meticulously.

The upper administration of the university has relentlessly retaliated against my habit of meticulously documenting. They have declared my documentation to constitute an attack on my colleagues and my “higher-ups.” Indeed, the President has placed me on suspension without pay since August 2017 because these “attacks” constitute egregious “neglect of my academic duties.”

YOU HAVE TO LAUGH, WI!

DOCUMENTATION AS UNLAWFUL

The witnesses who have been deposed in the closed sessions of the current Impeachment Inquiry have earned high praise for their custom of meticulously memorializing the misconduct of their higher-ups, that is to say, they “documented” everything. I myself have in my decades on the faculty of the nation’s premier HISTORICALLY BLACK university—named after an avowed white supremacist—have sought to “document” meticulously.

The upper administration of the university has relentlessly retaliated against my habit of meticulously documenting. They have declared my documentation to constitute an attack on my colleagues and my “higher-ups.” Indeed, the President has placed me on suspension without pay since August 2017 because these “attacks” constitute egregious “neglect of my academic duties.”

YOU HAVE TO LAUGH, WI!

UNITARY EXECUTIVE

The President of a certain “Historically Black” university that is named after an avowed white supremacist has been led to believe by his Board of Trustees that he is a unitary executive who can run the institution as he deems fit, even to the point of running it into the ground.

The President would be well served by doing some serious reflection on the meaning of the term “collegial,” focusing on the fact that a university is not a private corporation; and certainly not a plantation.

CRISIS IN VENEZUELA NOW, COMING SOON TO U.S.

The sovereign nation of Venezuela is embroiled in an existential constitutional crisis; and the United States has aggressively intervened to supposedly help them resolve the problem. However, the United States is itself on the brink of what could be an existential constitutional crisis. Maybe the U.S. might learn something from its intervention in Venezuela’s domestic affairs.

CAN AFRICAN AMERICANS MAKE AMERICA GREAT?

This is the title of a book we published at the beginning of 2017. As the situation with the Trump presidency gets more and more messy, our book and its title get more and more relevant.

URGENT RELEVANCE OF OUR BOOK, THE GUNNING DOWN OF MICHAEL BROWN

FRIDAY, OCT 7, 2016 02:30 PM EDT, Ben Norton is a politics reporter and staff writer at Salon, published the piece,

Scathing U.N. report: “Structural racism” endures in U.S., and the government has failed to protect African-Americans’ rights

U.N. group condemns mass incarceration, drug war, "human rights crisis" of police killings; calls for reparations

(http://www.salon.com/2016/10/07/scathing-u-n-report-structural-racism-endures-in-u-s-and-the-government-has-failed-to-protect-african-americans-rights/)

The report of which he speaks was issued by The U.N. Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent which visited the U.S. from January 19 to 29, 2016. Norton asserts that:

The report criticized what it called “the epidemic of racial violence by the police.” The U.N. group recommended “urgent action” on the issue, noting, “Contemporary police killings and the trauma that they create are reminiscent of the past racial terror of lynching.” ...............

The U.N. group expressed deep concern “at the alarming levels of police brutality and excessive use of lethal force by law enforcement officials, committed with impunity against people of African descent in the United States.”

The report cited the killings of unarmed black Americans such as Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray and Laquan McDonald, and noted that police officers have rarely “been held accountable for these crimes, despite the evidence.”

Our book, The Gunning Down of Michael Brown: An Afrocentric Response was published in 2014 and addresses precisely these issues. Our book is even more urgently relevant after 8 November 2016 with the consequent institutionalizing of white nationalism