Posted on 10/24/2013 9:51:35 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Barack Obama’s pal Henry “skip” Gates, the Harvard professor who couldn’t understand why a White police officer would stop and question him from climbing in his window, is now having trouble understand why a Black contractor won’t give his school historical papers he found in an abandoned house.
When cleaning contractor Rufus McDonald found an old trunk in an attic last year he discovered it contained the personal papers of Richard T. Greener, Harvard University’s first Black graduate.
The find sent waves of excitement through the academic world especially at Harvard where Skip Gates works. By his own description, the 140 year old papers gave Gates, who heads Harvard’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African-American Research, “gooseflesh” upon hearing of the accidental find.
This should be a great moment in African American history. This should make Rufus McDonald a legitimate hero for the Black intellectual class to laud. It should, but so far it has not, because Mister McDonald is threatening to burn the papers if he isn’t paid what they are worth by Harvard or anyone else who wants them.
McDonald has already sold two of Greener’s papers to...
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
Good for Mr. McDonald, stick it to Harvard and make them pay.
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Who owns the abandoned house? I would imagine that is who owns the papers.
Stand your ground Mr. MacDonald.............
Old MacDonald had a fire, E-I-E-I-O..............
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