Posted on 07/25/2009 5:25:51 PM PDT by fiodora
THE OTHER GATES FOUNDATION
In 2005, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., known to all as "Skip," set up the nonprofit Inkwell Foundation, named after a famous beach/gathering place for African-Americans on Martha's Vineyard. Skip talked about the foundation in a recent interview with Martha's Vineyard magazine and touted it when he launched his for-profit business, AfricanDNA.com, last year. "The precedent-setting site is the only company in the field of genetic genealogy that will provide African Americans with family tree research in addition to DNA testing," its initial press release declared, adding that "a percentage of all profits will be donated to the Inkwell Foundation, dedicated to reforming the teaching of science and history in inner city schools using genetic and genealogical ancestry tracing."
Public records indicate that the charity, domiciled in Gates's Cambridge home, has been dormant since its inception. Jill Butterworth, a spokeswoman for the state Attorney General's Office, says Inkwell has never filed the required, annual form PC, for public charities. "They are currently not in compliance," Butterworth said. "It's possible they are inactive or have dissolved. We are checking into it." Gates declined to comment.
Alex Beam is a Globe columnist. His e-dress is beam@globe.com.
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
Is there even an inadvertent associate of O’Bummer’s that isn’t an out~and~out scoundrel?!
Don't you know who he is?!!!
“Is there even an inadvertent associate of O’Bummer’s that isn’t an out~and~out scoundrel?!”
Apparently, everything around him is rotten. I hope the MSM [lol] investigates this “outstanding professor...”
Sounds to me as if Skip may have skipped with some “charitable donations”.
Inkwell Foundation, named after a famous beach/gathering place for African-Americans on Martha’s Vineyard
Isn’t that racist?
It would be if it was a white gathering called Snow.
Where is that little kid?
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
Or maybe he inferred it, since his mother dumped him on his grandma.
[Is there even an inadvertent associate of O’Bummer’s that isn’t an out~and~out scoundrel?!]
No.
Ahh.. the old fake "charity" scam. Maybe this guy Gates isn't the pathetic imbecile everybody thinks he is.
Since Gates is ‘Joe African Geneology’ maybe he can make himself useful and trace Obeyme’s family tree back to his African roots. Then maybe we can actually find out where the hell this guy is from and who his father is!
Dems in NJ are going to jail for phoney jobs paying a lot less than Michelle “earned” from that hospital.
I’ve always felt some scandal will leave us with that idiot Biden as president.
Recent info on the “foundation”:
Screwing blacks out of their hard-earned money. He’s so racist.
According to the 2005 article, the www.africanDNA.com was established in 2004 and was supposed to donate to “The Inkwell Foundation” which looks like it is supposed to give monies to public schools to study geneology and dna in their science departments. The pictures show 1 adult leading a few children, some at hospital doing a jewelry project and others who appear to be severly retarded in a group picture of some kind. And according to the journalist writing the article, Professor Gates has never made a yearly report on his non-profit “Inkwell Foundation” and they thought the charity just never was funcioning.
According to another article, he was just in China to research YoYo Ma’s Asian history.-Hmmmm sounds like a nice trip to take on your non-profit, profits.
Esteemed Professor to all us lesser folk. ;-)
race hustler
“Esteemed Professor to all us lesser folk. ;-) “
You’re absolutely correct!!! Thanks for the kind reminder, I need to learn how to address the Messiah’s friends...
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