Posted on 02/25/2020 1:36:44 AM PST by grundle
In July 2013, I wrote this blog post where I criticized a section of this article, which had been written by Imani Perry, a professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University.
After I wrote that blog post, I wrote the following email to Dr. Perry:
“I welcome you to show this to your students and anyone else whom you think might like to read it and comment on it.”
Dr. Perry responded to my email by writing the following email to me:
“I will be reporting you to the police for harassment.”
Prior to this, I had thought that Ivy League universities only hired professors who were interested in having discussions and debates over topics with which they disagreed. It had never occurred to me that one of them would call the police simply because someone disagreed with something that they had said.
Which is why I was totally shocked to find out that Dr. Perry had called the police on me.
Well, it’s been more than six years since Dr. Perry called the police on me, and I still haven’t been arrested.
In the meantime, I recently did some googling to see what Dr. Perry has been up to.
And it turns out that Dr. Perry herself has been arrested!
It actually happened four years ago, but I just found out about it now.
In February 2016, the New York Times reported:
The police in Princeton, N.J., released a dashboard video of the traffic stop of a black Princeton professor…
The video shows what appears to be a routine traffic stop with the professor, Imani Perry… She was then arrested…
After pulling Dr. Perry over, the male officer told her he had clocked her driving at 67 miles per hour in a 45-m.p.h. zone…
Fifteen minutes elapsed before the officer returned to her car to tell Dr. Perry that her license had been suspended…
About two minutes later, the officer returned to tell her she had a warrant out for her arrest over a parking offense from 2013.
Ain’t karma wonderful?
According to someone I know who was in a PhD program at Princeton, Princeton hires some professors solely for the PR value. The students all know it.
The price is supported by government subsidies, the customers are induced to pay the price by government subsidies and loans, the degrees acquired are subsidized by a government that establishes pay scales accordingly.
For example, in the 1960s an LL.B. degree was converted automatically and retroactively to a JD degree by law schools because the government paid more for the latter.
Harvard prof scams $600,000, then hands it to 419ers
A US scientist who collected $600,000 for SARS research in China from students, colleagues and friends, actually handed the money over to Nigerian 419ers, the Boston Herald reports.
Former Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researcher and Harvard University professor Weldong Xu, 38, was contacted by the lads from Lagos and promised $50m in quick profit.
We assume that the usual "unforseen expenses" scenario soon kicked in, since Xu began to solicit funds for his philanthropic far-eastern venture.
Among the 35 individuals who fell for the scam was a friend who remortgaged his house to support Xu's initiative. Boston police detective Steve Blair noted: "These are co-workers who trusted him and believed in him and took him for his word."
Xu was uncovered after employers Dana-Farber fingered him to police over the affair. Unhappily for the criminal mastermind, he was spotted arguing with one scammee in the Dana-Farber canteen by another victim who was at the time being interviewed by police.
The cuffs slapped on, Xu 'fessed up and handed police a book containing details of his shameful fleecings.
Xu would not, however, admit that he had himself been played like a cheap violin by the Nigerians. "The scammer's been scammed," said detective Blair. "He wouldn't acknowledge he'd been scammed. I tried to tell him he'd been scammed, but he never caught on."
While the future for Xu appears to involve breaking rocks, and plenty of 'em, one fundamental question remains: what is currently the minimum IQ required for a Harvard professorship? We suspect that the answer is double figures - or less.
Window dressing.
If more bloggers got arrested the world would be a better place.
Princeton degrees are also worthless re: Michelle Obama.
Never ever hire Ivy.
Proves that leftists plan to use the police to enforce politically correct speech and to jail those who don’t agree with the official party dogma.
Don’t you doubt for one moment that they won’t! They already have a law that can jail someone who won’t use the “correct” pronouns.
A warrant for arrest over a parking offense?
Sure, sending her that email was provocative, and she may have felt intimidated being targeted like that, though calling the police was over the top.
But still, do we want anyone arrested after a stop for moderate speeding—because of a parking offense?
Cash register justice in the People’s Democratic Republic of New Jersey:
https://nj1015.com/forgetting-parking-ticket-could-cost-you-1000-and-your-job/
Right or wrong, the learned professor should have received official notice that her license was about to be suspended. Her denial of that notice was a lie.
Ditto that.
And Boston University is like a diploma mill. The infamously ignorant AOC got a Bachelor of Arts degree from BU with majors in both International Relations and Economics.
The cop probably had SCMODS.
With honors yet (cum laude)!
I don’t care that the cop had accurate info and took the specified action. I do care about someone getting arrested for a parking offense.
LOL! Yep
I am Asian. I found white people are really talented in creating Africa study in universities where they can award some blacks as professors. No way could we have thought. Pretending is at art level
Heh.
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