'She Was Highly Recruited': HBCU President Defends Claudine Gay's Work Amid Plagiarism Scandal
Morehouse College President David Thomas joined Cat Oriel on "Forbes Newsroom" to discuss his frustration with those questioning Harvard President Claudine Gay's qualifications following the college presidents' testimonies during the Congressional hearing on antisemitism and discuss the impact of affirmative action on HBCUs.
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You need to resign immediately in disgrace
This fool trying so hard to defend her lol.
plagiarism is a qualification? 🤔
@funfact8660
6 ай бұрын
That's all they know how to do, is take thing's that do not belong to them
This guy also seems unqualified.
@pseudoscientist8010
6 ай бұрын
Diversity, equity, dei, ESG, white supremacy...
Anyone else notice how silent this guy is on the non-Black University Presidents who are under fire. I'm sure it's just a coincidence. The President of a College that is 98.4% Black couldn't be racist, right?
@funfact8660
6 ай бұрын
They're the biggest one's
Race card. Yep
@funfact8660
6 ай бұрын
Black Privilege card obviously
@anthonybelvin2085
6 ай бұрын
Correction: Black Entitlement
They were right to question her qualifications, they led to plagiarized after plagiarized , after plagiarized work.
"I say, I say I do declare that Gal's about as logical as a Lemming, and trustworthy as a Cottonmouth"🐔
she was put in charge of Harvard over a $1 bet between two elderly,wealthy,white guys, I believe their names were Randolph & Mortimer
@user-vq9kn2ix4n
6 ай бұрын
Now that just ain't right!!!! 🤭
She’s so decent, she can’t THINK for herself! She can leave & take him with. She lies & he approves!
But she cheated in six of her papers, didn't she? And nobody noticed? Or it didn't matter because she was given a free pass?
“The question becomes are they qualified.” The system literally lowers standards for minority candidates. The question will always be “are they qualified” under such a system.
Highly recruited for their agenda
Claudine Gay should be interviewed by Simon Kaggwa Njala
I know why she got her job.. one reason..
why can't the president of a university speak without all these ums and ahs
Ha ha ha haha
Claudine "DEI" Gay must go
Respectfully, Dr. Thomas is simply flat out wrong on this. We simply can't defend the indefensible. I get it. There is a knee jerk tendency to blame everything on race in this country, but in this specific incident, doing so is intellectually lazy. I also get that Dr. Thomas may be responding to this matter out of emotion and the racial solidarity surrounding Dr. Gay being the first black president of Harvard, but Dr. Thomas is allowing his racial solidarity to cloud his judgment. Take a walk with me. Dr. Thomas was a well published scholar long before he set foot on Morehouse's campus and has been a tenured professor and dean at elite institutions including Harvard and Georgetown, respectively. He of all people should comprehend the rigor required for elite appointments in academia. Dr. Gay's thin publication record alone would not qualify her for tenure much less a presidency of most middle tiered institutions. Standards for her were lowered throughout her career and this will now come back to haunt Harvard. What's sad is not just how egregious Dr. Gay's plagiarism is, but if racial solidarity is your thing Dr. Thomas, then you should know what's even more egregious is that Dr. Gay lifted entire paragraphs of the work of another black woman scholar, Dr. Carol Swain, who has been very outspoken and adamant about how Harvard should remove Dr. Gay immediately. If any black person wants to have racial solidarity with anyone, it should be Dr. Swain and NOT Dr. Gay. Plagiarism is academic fraud pure and simple. We should NOT sugar coat this because Dr. Gay is black. This lowers the standards for all black people, something I am patently against. Three things can be true at the same time: 1) Certain calls for her to resign could be racially motivated; 2) Certain calls for her to resign could be politically motivated; and 3) Certain calls for her to resign could be strictly over plagiarism. Fine. Consider this. If the police pull me over because I was speeding, but after pulling me over, they run my license and discover I have an outstanding warrant for murder, should I be released simply because that's not why the cop originally pulled me over? Of course not. Murder is murder and plagiarism is plagiarism and both deserve to be punished accordingly, regardless of how we first came to know of the latter offenses. Put simply, Dr. Gay must resign or Harvard must remove her. Oh, and while it should not matter, I'm black.
Look like she really trying be recruited to play that Ruffin guy in the next Temptations movie. Is really what she wants.
Was she an affirmative action hire?
Come on, the Earth is just a small blue point without return in the universe, the big warmonger will clean the orbit.
the bell curve the bell curve the bell curve the bell curve the bell curve
Love these black professors trying to make excuses for Ms Gay.
It’s called restorative justice when we do it.
Was “she” a man? Or was “he” a woman? I am sooo confused these days.
The amount of censorship surrounding this story reeks of failure on the part of the community.
Plagiarism is Gay
aaah, aaah, aaah.....
He is
Ha ha
🦍
Pulling the race card----what about the gender card also??---didnt you leave that out?