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Ex-law prof claims Harvard president Claudine Gay made a career out of attacking black scholars
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Dec 31, 2023, 9:43:00 PM12/31/23
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claudine-gay-made-a-career-out-of-attacking-black-scholars/
A former law school professor and Harvard grad has argued people shouldn’t
use the race card to defend the Ivy League school’s embattled president,
Claudine Gay, because he claims she’s made a career out of “disrupting”
black male scholars.
Winkfield Twyman Jr., an ex-professor at the California Western School of
Law in San Diego, ripped Gay in a Newsweek op-ed published Wednesday —
insisting the recent attacks on her credibility are “well deserved” and
not, as some have argued, “racial in nature.”
Twyman pointed specifically to the intense backlash Gay has faced in
recent weeks after she failed to condemn calls for the genocide of Jews
during a congressional hearing and amid claims she has plagiarized the
work of fellow professors at points in her career.
“And yet, many are coming to her defense. Having finally got their wish of
a Black president of Harvard, Harvard seems unwilling to let her go,” he
said, adding that the “racial wagons” have been circled around Gay ever
since.
“This is not only misguided, but deeply ironic. Did you know that Claudine
Gay during her Harvard career has repeatedly targeted and disrupted the
careers of prominent black male professors?”
Twyman, who authored the race-related book “Letters in Black and White: A
New Correspondence on Race in America,” claimed Gay axed Ronald S.
Sullivan Jr. as dean of Harvard’s Winthrop House in 2019 after he joined
Harvey Weinstein’s legal team.
He also claimed Gay coordinated a “witch hunt” against economics professor
Roland G. Fryer Jr. after his research into the killings of unarmed black
men in Houston, Texas, found no racial disparities.
“He made the mistake of undercutting the racial narrative that the Left
has adopted, and as a result, Gay did her best to remove all of his
academic privileges, coordinating a witch hunt against him,” Twyman said.
“Fryer survived Gay’s crusade of discharge but Fryer’s lab was shut down,
his reputation tarnished.”
The author continued: “No one in good faith should defend President Gay
because she is the first black president of Harvard. Even if you don’t
agree with me that our racial struggle is in our past, someone who has
targeted black male professors has waived any benefit of the ‘first black’
defense.”
Gay didn’t immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment about
Twyman’s claims.
His criticism comes just weeks after one of the academics who accused Gay
of ripping off her work claimed Harvard wouldn’t condemn its prez because
it holds “high pedigree” minorities to lower standards than others.
“Harvard can’t condemn Ms. Gay because she is the product of an elite
system that holds minorities of high pedigree to a lower standard,” Carol
Swain, a former political science professor at Vanderbilt University,
wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.
“This harms academia as a whole, and it demeans Americans, of all races,
who had to work for everything they earned.”
Gay was hit with accusations that she lifted scholars’ works in her 1997
doctoral thesis and wrote four papers published between 1993 and 2017 that
didn’t include proper attribution.
The Harvard Corporation — the school’s highest governing body — later
disclosed that an independent review into the plagiarism allegations
uncovered three instances of “inadequate citation” on her part, but no
misconduct.
--
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Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
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President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
claudine-gay-made-a-career-out-of-attacking-black-scholars/
A former law school professor and Harvard grad has argued people shouldn’t
use the race card to defend the Ivy League school’s embattled president,
Claudine Gay, because he claims she’s made a career out of “disrupting”
black male scholars.
Winkfield Twyman Jr., an ex-professor at the California Western School of
Law in San Diego, ripped Gay in a Newsweek op-ed published Wednesday —
insisting the recent attacks on her credibility are “well deserved” and
not, as some have argued, “racial in nature.”
Twyman pointed specifically to the intense backlash Gay has faced in
recent weeks after she failed to condemn calls for the genocide of Jews
during a congressional hearing and amid claims she has plagiarized the
work of fellow professors at points in her career.
“And yet, many are coming to her defense. Having finally got their wish of
a Black president of Harvard, Harvard seems unwilling to let her go,” he
said, adding that the “racial wagons” have been circled around Gay ever
since.
“This is not only misguided, but deeply ironic. Did you know that Claudine
Gay during her Harvard career has repeatedly targeted and disrupted the
careers of prominent black male professors?”
Twyman, who authored the race-related book “Letters in Black and White: A
New Correspondence on Race in America,” claimed Gay axed Ronald S.
Sullivan Jr. as dean of Harvard’s Winthrop House in 2019 after he joined
Harvey Weinstein’s legal team.
He also claimed Gay coordinated a “witch hunt” against economics professor
Roland G. Fryer Jr. after his research into the killings of unarmed black
men in Houston, Texas, found no racial disparities.
“He made the mistake of undercutting the racial narrative that the Left
has adopted, and as a result, Gay did her best to remove all of his
academic privileges, coordinating a witch hunt against him,” Twyman said.
“Fryer survived Gay’s crusade of discharge but Fryer’s lab was shut down,
his reputation tarnished.”
The author continued: “No one in good faith should defend President Gay
because she is the first black president of Harvard. Even if you don’t
agree with me that our racial struggle is in our past, someone who has
targeted black male professors has waived any benefit of the ‘first black’
defense.”
Gay didn’t immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment about
Twyman’s claims.
His criticism comes just weeks after one of the academics who accused Gay
of ripping off her work claimed Harvard wouldn’t condemn its prez because
it holds “high pedigree” minorities to lower standards than others.
“Harvard can’t condemn Ms. Gay because she is the product of an elite
system that holds minorities of high pedigree to a lower standard,” Carol
Swain, a former political science professor at Vanderbilt University,
wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.
“This harms academia as a whole, and it demeans Americans, of all races,
who had to work for everything they earned.”
Gay was hit with accusations that she lifted scholars’ works in her 1997
doctoral thesis and wrote four papers published between 1993 and 2017 that
didn’t include proper attribution.
The Harvard Corporation — the school’s highest governing body — later
disclosed that an independent review into the plagiarism allegations
uncovered three instances of “inadequate citation” on her part, but no
misconduct.
--
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
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