Many college DEI officials have committed large-scale plagiarism. At the National Review, Madeleine Kearns notes that Free Beacon reporter Aaron Sibarium “has uncovered an ants’ nest with plagiarism among the DEI ruling class at American universities. The latest instance … is ‘the chief diversity officer of Columbia University’s medical school, Alade McKen, [who] plagiarized extensively in his doctoral dissertation, lifting huge chunks of material without attribution. Two pages in the dissertation come directly from Wikipedia.'”
McKen has plagiarized around 30 authors.
The chief diversity officer’s plagiarism comprised a fifth of his 163-page dissertation, “‘UBUNTU’ I am because we are: A case study examining the experiences of an African-centered Rites of Passage program within a community-based organization,” which was submitted to Iowa State University’s School of Education in 2021. More than two of those pages are a near-verbatim facsimile of Wikipedia’s entry on “Afrocentric education,” which is not cited anywhere in the dissertation. “Other pages lift paragraphs from well-known African scholars, including the University of Rwanda’s Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu, while making small tweaks to their prose, such as reordering certain clauses or changing a ‘were’ to a ‘was.'”
“McKen also lifts a jargon-filled passage from LaGarrett King, a scholar of black education at the University of Buffalo who urges the ‘dismantling’ of ‘white epistemic logic.'”
Multiple other DEI officials have also committed obvious plagiarism. For example, “other complaints have alleged that Harvard Extension School’s Title IX coordinator, Shirley Greene, copied paragraphs and tables from other scholars without proper attribution and that Harvard University’s chief diversity officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, took credit for an entire study done by her husband. The allegations against both officials followed the downfall of former Harvard president Claudine Gay, who resigned after nearly half her published work was implicated in a plagiarism scandal.”
Plagiarist Claudine Gay, Harvard’s ex-president, “was obviously a diversity hire,” reports The College Fix. Billionaire Bill Ackman, a major donor to his alma mater, “confirmed with ‘multiple sources,’ that the presidential search committee ‘excluded non-DEI eligible candidates from the process'” before selecting Gay as president.
Gay, a mediocrity, sought to get rid of Harvard economics professor Roland Fryer, a genius black professor and recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” Grant, after Fryer conducted a study that found that police shootings are not generally racially biased against blacks — shutting down Professor Fryer’s lab and harming his staff in the process — as is discussed in Rob Montz‘s documentary, Why Did Harvard Cancel Its Best Black Professor. In 2019, 9 unarmed black people were shot and killed by police while on duty, compared with 19 whites, in a country of over 330 million people, yet progressive academics falsely claim that police kill thousands of unarmed blacks each year.
A prominent black economist says, “Roland Fryer is the most gifted economist of his generation. Not the most gifted black economist of his generation, the most gifted economist of his generation. Period. He was tenured at Harvard at the age of 30, he was awarded the American Economics Association’s John Bates Clark Medal, he received a MacArthur ‘Genius’ grant, his publications appeared in some of the most distinguished journals in the field, and his scholarship was regularly covered in the mainstream media.” But Claudine Gay, a DEI mediocrity, tried to get rid of him, and succeeded in shutting down his lab.
Fryer was targeted because his study undermined false progressive beliefs about whites being dangerous to blacks. Progressive Congresswoman Ilhan Omar falsely claimed that “white men” are “causing most of the deaths within this country,” a claim that is at odds with federal crime statistics. The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports showed that in 2019, 6,425 “murder offenders” were black, compared to only 4,728 who were white. Yet, Omar told the TV network Al Jazeera that “our country should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country.”
Contrary to the false impression left by people like Omar, most interracial violent crimes are not committed by whites. In 2018, federal crime statistics showed that there were 547,948 “interracial violent crime incidents” committed by blacks against whites in 2018, compared to 112,365 committed by whites against blacks.
