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“Plagiarism is a very White thing I would argue.”
Posted by James at 3:42 PM on March 2
It’s a matter of proportion: There are more whites writing than blacks. But plagiarism among blacks is quite common: “Roots” turned out to be plagiarized fiction (not even historically accurate): Alex Haley was sued and ended up having to settle.
MLK plagiarized his thesis.
Posted by at 10:51 PM on March 3
Bruce:
In fact plagiarism is most definitely a White thing. From the naval academy in Annapolis, numerous college cheating scandals, to Mike Barnicle of the Boston Globe, to Brian Kent of USA TODAY, to the White house speechwriter who resigned last week for lifting more than 20 pages from a Dartmouth College newspaper.
Plagiarism is a very White thing I would argue.
Posted by James at 3:42 PM on March 2
black female doing what blacks do best, waiting for someone else to build something then jumping in all weepy eyed that they can’t have part of something they didn’t contribute to.
Posted by VN at 4:27 PM on February 27
Plagiarism, it’s a black thing. You wouldn’t understand.
Posted by Bruce at 1:52 PM on February 27
Just like Martin Luther King! Happy Black History Month.
Posted by at 8:10 PM on February 26
“I am left to wonder whether a white faculty member would have been treated in such a publicly disrespectful and disparaging manner,” she wrote.
NO! A White would have simply been fired on the spot and not even been bothered with being “publicly disrespected” or “disparaged.”
“As one of only two tenured Black women full professors at Teachers College, it pains me to conclude that I have been specifically and systematically targeted.”
Much in the same manner she targeted herself,…er,…uh, I mean others targeted her for a noosing.
Posted by P Norman at 9:13 PM on February 24
One reason, perhaps the most powerful, that Bantus world-wide are attracted to Islam is that Islam also does not blame itself for its sins, or admit to wrongdoing. Muslims always portray themselves as victims wronged by others, be they Jews, the British, the West, the United States, etc. They ask themselves, “What have they done to us?”, NEVER “What have we done”? The soul-searching commmon in Christianity, is absent in Islam. And yet, it’s the Christian denominations largely resposible for the importation of Bantus from 3rd-World enlaves like Somalia, Congo, Rwanda, Nigeria, etc.
Posted by Soprano Fan at 12:00 PM on February 24
Check out this CRITICAL detail ommitted from this story but included (to their credit) in the original New York Post story (link follows):
“The professor was one of several faculty members who objected to the idea of posting surveillance cameras in her hallway, according to sources familiar with the campus investigation.”
‘NOOSE’ PROF A PLAGIARIST
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02212008/news/regionalnews/noose_prof_a_plagiarist_98598.htm
Posted by "Professor" did it at 1:46 PM on February 23
“Seems to me, the poster above is somewhat confused on the issue he is quoting.[ … ] White racism the cause? Don’t make me laugh! Like I pointed out, REALITY AND HISTORY define Blacks. Not now, not ever, something called racism!
LOL! I’m not confused at all. Sarcastically, I said: That’s because we are all forced to accept the LIE. That being the reason blacks are dysfunctional, obnoxious, and violent, etc., is solely due white racism.
Jared Taylor from “Paved With Good Intentions” : “The central doctrine on which they [blacks] all depend: Whites are responsible for the problems blacks face.”
As you can plainly see, I was simply paraphrasing what Jared Taylor debunks through-out his book.
Can we be friends now?
Posted by at 11:32 AM on February 23
Sounds like she took a well-read page right out of the biography of Martin Luther King, another well-known plagiarist.
Posted by at 9:42 AM on February 23
“those who are suprised that a prof. would plagerize students -they do it all the time - they give advanced classes a classroom ‘assignment’ that in reality is unpaid research - the use the ‘a’ papers…one teacher I knew in high school mentioned that one prof. of hers did it to the point of assigning different aspects of the topic to each student…and it turned out this corresponded with the chapters of the book the prof. ‘wrote’.
Posted by at 12:40 PM on February 22”
That’s why I would encourage any of AmRen’s readers that are over age 40 to return to night school. The fun you can have screwing with these people is well worth the price of admission. Especially is there is a classroom full of young mushheads to listen to you shooting down the “perfesser’s” so-called expertise.
Posted by Wild Eyed Charlie at 11:11 PM on February 22
>>>That’s because we are all forced to accept the LIE. That being the reason blacks are dysfunctional, obnoxious, and violent, etc., is solely due white racism.
Seems to me, the poster above is somewhat confused on the issue he is quoting. The endless litany of Black perpetrated crime speaks for itself. As does the endless screams of ‘racism” whenever a Black is charged for a crime. So why then, unsigned poster, should we NOT see the Black race as dysfunctional, obnoxious and violent. Given the many millions of valid examples of Blacks fitting those very terms. Actions that speak louder, clearer than any lie.
As to being LIE we’re forced to accept? Firstly that White racism makes Blacks act that way is an absurdity in itself. Blacks could never rise above their basic low mentality. A primtive, base mentality seemingly as much a part of them as their skin tone.
Blacks, singly or collectively, simply do not want to be held accountable to the same standards we Whites are. All denials notwithstanding. They want and do play the race card at the slightest pretext. Like that shoddy excuse of a “professor.” The same old “yus wudn’t accuse her of anything if she wuz white.”
Blacks even claim to find racism in setting professional standards. That Black would-be attorney in Houston, a couple of years back. Screaming the high standards for passing the bar were unrealistic, infair to Blacks. Think about that: Who would want a Black laywer sheuld the need for one arise, given the Black lawyer was basically so incompetent and unintelligent he had to have the standards LOWERED so he, a Black, could pass? Conversely, who would want to be treated by a Black doctor who could not pass the same professional tests White medical school students pass?
Look at ANY city with a Black for a Mayor — New Orleans, Detroit, Washington, Philadelphia — just to name a few. Invariably the Black mayor turns out to be inept, incompetent, corrupt as the truth surfaces, item by item. Take that Congressman Jefferson, from Louisiana, and his acceptance of bribes.
Also look to “modern” Africa. With Blacks, that’s right, Black Africans killing, raping, mutilating and torturing each other. Even using CANNIABALISM as an instrument of terror. No, nothing new. Nothing that they haven’t been doing to each other since the Black race first appeared. All those fine sounding phrases — to what great glories, great heights they’d rise, given their independence from their hated European rulers. Then look at Zimbabwe, South Africa, somalia, Ethiopia.
History defines the opinion people have of Blacks. Not “lies.” History written by the actions, crimes, misdeeds of Blacks It makes no difference, whether the millions of Black criminals are in Africa, Europe, or the Americas. Their actions define the African race more eloquently than words ever could.
White racism the cause? Don’t make me laugh! Like I pointed out, REALITY AND HISTORY define Blacks. Not now, not ever, something called racism!
Posted by Fed Up at 8:31 PM on February 22
I remember some (legend???) incident at U of P, in the late 1960s, where a math prof was gunned down by a student whose work had been stolen. This happened in Rittenhouse Lab.
Does any poster here recall this?
Posted by at 7:12 PM on February 22
Steve at 12:10 PM on February 22:
Thanks for an overly long and entirely irrelevant post. Your argument basically boils down to the same tired argument we always hear about crime - “white people do it to.” Apparently, you failed to realize that the point of the article was to point out the double standard in the way this woman was treated versus how a white man would have been treated, not to say that she plagarized because she was black.
Posted by at 6:30 PM on February 22
“BLACKS WILL NEVER ADMIT TO, MUCH LESS WANT TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR CRIMES AND MISDEEDS!”
That’s because we are all forced to accept the LIE. That being the reason blacks are dysfunctional, obnoxious, and violent, etc., is solely due white racism.
Whites weaken their social position in society by cowering, accepting, and acquiesing to the lie. On the other hand, blacks get stronger, bolder, and more beligerante from it because they eat, sleep, drink, and take FULL advantage of it.
Posted by at 5:06 PM on February 22
Yes, professors very often use the work of their students in preparing books and papers, but, crucially, that help is usually limited to directed research tasks and cite-checking, not the actual writing of the manuscript (if the student does write a substantial part, co-authorship is appropriate). The bedrock principle here is that the person who actually writes the words - who composes the original work - is the essential author, no matter who did the research or even came up with the general idea in the first place. (There is a reason most papers have a “credits” section!)
More debatable is the practice of professors claiming co-authorship on student papers, even those in which a professor contributed only advice and editorial supervision. There seems to be a whole unexplored realm here as this article indicates:
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2201268,00.html
Either way, Constantine’s plagiarism was so outstandingly egregious and shameless - virtually rubbing it in the faces of her own students and colleagues - that in this instance, Columbia had no choice but to act.
Posted by Dave at 4:41 PM on February 22
Of course she doesn’t try to refute the charges, she just expresses outrage that she was ever investigated to begin with.
as for the portion that states
I am left to wonder whether a white faculty member would have been treated in such a publicly disrespectful and disparaging manner,
Gee maybe could that be because any self respecting professor caught stealing from their STUDENTs with the slightest bit of dignity would quietly submit their resignation rather than force the school to restort to taking things this far.
Posted by at 1:51 PM on February 22
Alex …
Read MY post under SHOOTING INCIDENT REVEALS RACIAL DIVIDE
I posted one on Feb. 13th and another one on the Wheelchair Incident. Jesse Jackson and his sidekick, Al Sharpton, would have made sure it was FRONT PAGE NEWS for at least a month! But since the perp was a Black female, the quadri-plegic victim, a White Male, it barely elicited a ho-hum from the BIASED MEDIA, and even less from any Black, much less one claiming to speak for American Blacks.
Then again, how many responsible Black figures spoke out about that heinous crime where 5 Black ex-cons brutally gang-raped, tortured, mutilated, then murdered two young, White college students in Tennessee in early January, 2007. The reason Blacks are hated by so many Whites, whether this hatred is admitted or not by those Whites — BLACKS WILL NEVER ADMIT TO, MUCH LESS WANT TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR CRIMES AND MISDEEDS!
Posted by Fed Up at 1:42 PM on February 22
What’s new? A black is never guilty of anything. It is always bias against him/her that is behind the case. But, will she be fired? Don’t bet on it.
Posted by Frank at 12:50 PM on February 22
those who are suprised that a prof. would plagerize students -they do it all the time - they give advanced classes a classroom ‘assignment’ that in reality is unpaid research - the use the ‘a’ papers…one teacher I knew in high school mentioned that one prof. of hers did it to the point of assigning different aspects of the topic to each student…and it turned out this corresponded with the chapters of the book the prof. ‘wrote’.
Posted by at 12:40 PM on February 22
Wait, so some of you actually think she plagiarized her student because she was black? She’s not the first person to steal a student’s work, and, unfortunately, she won’t be the last. “Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student’s Guide to Earning an M.A. or a Ph.D.” by Peter Roberts provides anecdotes of advisors stealing their students’ work, taking credit for their students’ discoveries, etc. And these professors racial background run the gamut, mostly white by the way (however the race of the perpetrator is meaningless to me). And neither of these guys lost their jobs or got fired. It’s almost impossible to fire a professor once he/she receives tenure, which is why getting tenure is very difficult.
As one closely linked with academia, it’s not uncommon to hear of professors taking credit for and stealing their students work. Not too long ago a student discovered her (Asian) professor filed for a patent without including her name using techniques she (the student) developed during her PhD. She sued her professor and won. Complaints by students regarding their professors stealing their work aren’t hard to find in academia. It’s been done before, and it’s race-independent. See Danut Marcu, John Darsee (a Harvard scientist), Hwang Woo-Suk (famous episode), Charles Dawson (who claimed fake discoveries), etc.
Another common trend is this: a PhD student or, sometimes, a post-doctoral fellow, contributes to a field, and when the paper is written, the advisor adds his name without contributing anything meaningful to the paper. Not all advisors do this by the way, but it’s not uncommon to find. With the amount of power given to professors, many of these cases go unheard, but graduate students, post-docs and professors witness them but just keep shut. And universities often go a long way to protect their staff and thus their names, unless in patent cases. Oh, the underbelly of academia!
Just last year, a postdoctoral fellow from China plagiarized the “Proposed Methods” section of a grant word-for-word. It took a review by an independent panel familiar with the field to figure it out. And having worked with this post-doctoral fellow, he’s experimentally adept in applying molecular biology to neuroscience. Do we inordinately ascribe him with a low IQ and being awarded a PhD because of his race?
With the intense competition, and the quest for fame and intellectual regard in academia being a big deal, professors are sometimes “pushed” to become exploitative of their students; students are sometimes pushed to do unseemly things as well (they aren’t exempt). A stellar MD/PhD student, Amitav Hajra, at University of Michigan fabricated data mercilessly during his PhD years. It was uncovered and the PhD was revoked. You also have to understand that getting into an MD/PhD program, especially at a top school like Michigan, is no joke. Competition is intense and blemishes on one’s academic record can weaken your candidacy. The margin of error is small. Yet, someone who was scrutinized harshly by the regarded intelligentsia of academic medicine and science still failed us at large. Thus working with a fair and reasonable professor/student is of utmost importance.
Overall, what we have is an issue of integrity. Knowing it’s wrong to plagiarize and not doing it reflect honesty, not smarts. It takes more brains to discover the transition state of an enzyme or understand Green’s theorem in multivariable calculus than know and actually implement virtue.
Posted by Steve at 12:10 PM on February 22
It appears that she has all the qualitites necessary to run for President of the US.—————-HM
Posted by at 11:54 AM on February 22
Here’a a pic and bio
http://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/index.htm?facid=mc816
Bio references her “cultural competence”(What the H—- does THAT mean?) in counseling, training, and supervision. Mental health issues of people of color in the United States and immigrants. Vocational issues of adolescents and college students of color.
So could one say she is a RACIST, due to her apparent unwillingness, or lack of COMPETENCE, in dealing with people that are “not of color”?
Posted by Superman at 10:37 AM on February 22
Blacks are constantly babbling about how they try to “live by da example set by Docta King” — and it’s possible this Prof. Madonna Constantine is merely doing the same.
“Saint Martin of the Motels” has been accused of plagiarizing substantial sections of his graduate work. I seem to recall hearing the estimate that some 30% of MLK’s PhD thesis in the early ’50s was lifted from a previous scholar — and, with the help of his indulgent white benefactors, he GOT AWAY WITH IT. So why wouldn’t latter-day token-hires like Prof. Constantine think they can do the same? “If Docta King did it, it gots to be right — right?”
Coming up with your own ideas is, evidently, too much like work. So much easier just to steal.
And since the (alleged) noose (allegedly) hung on her (alleged) doorknob was AFTER the “Jena Six” debacle, even her “hate crime” may have been a form of plagiarism!
Posted by at 10:22 AM on February 22
Anybody else thinking that the noose incident (which I believe she hung there herself) was concocted by this professor to divert attention away from the investigation of her plagarism.
And how typical that another black thinks that this is all just a “witch hunt” and that a white professor would not have been so “disgracefully” disrespected. What is that complex called when someone thinks that others are always out to get them? I know there’s got to be a clinical word for it. Not only do blacks suffer from a lack of a sense of humor, they lack the ability to reason and take responsibility for their actions when they are caught red-handed.
Posted by Gayle Sollenberger at 9:23 AM on February 22
Of course it’s a witch hunt. How could it be anything else? Why, everyone KNOWs that whenever a Black is accused of wrong-doing of ANY KIND, it’s always racism as the motive. Never mind what crime the Black person is guilty of. Never mind how much evidence, how big a mountain of proof of the Black’s guilt.
Blacks have this deep-rooted conviction they should NEVER be held accountable for any of their crimes, misdeeds, even racist rantings. That at birth they deserve to be issued a “Get out of Jail Free!” card granting life-long immunity for them.
We Whites are expected to take these Afro-Americans seriously? With a mentality like theirs? Even VOTE for one for president?
Posted by Fed Up at 7:46 AM on February 22
Remember there was a video that administrators were reluctant to hand over to police and they only did so after several days and a court order. You just know they did some “creative editing” to take out this buffoon hanging a noose on her own door.
Posted by Kendall at 7:38 AM on February 22
There is a youtube video of this woman being interviewed after the noose incident, and she is laughably transparent in her drama-queen description of how it upset and hurt her. It’s a terrible bit of acting.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vZV6oaP0Y14&feature=RecentlyWatched&page=1&t=t&f=b
Posted by Cliff Yablonski at 6:29 AM on February 22
It “Pays” to be a minority in America. Won’t be long before the percentages will change and then the “W” word will be a no-no.
Posted by Manuel at 3:56 AM on February 22
I am surprised that nobody on this site have commented on wheelchair dumping incident. It was all over the news a week ago. Black sheriff’s deputy throwing quadriplegic white man out of his wheelchair. I think it’s a double hate crime. Where is dynamic duo of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton?-Posted by alex at 8:42 PM on February 21
Alex, it is a blatantly outrageous incident. I sent the story and a link of the video to AR several times but they, for some reason, refused to post it. I don’t know why. It is being investigated for Civil Rights violations.
Posted by Risorgimanto II at 3:38 AM on February 22
Two years ago, I received a Bachelors of Arts degree in English from a California State University school which shall remain anonymous.
We had a very fun and eccentric professor who was quite liberal and a member of the Green Party as well. He was a British national working on his U.S. citizenship.
About one year before graduation, he caught a black student in one of our classes plagiarising on a final paper. School policy directed faculty to report any plagiarism to the dean of the department who would then call a meeting of the department committee to investigate the charges.
The black student met the dean and told him that our professor was a “blatant racist” and made class so “hard” on him that he “had no choice but to plagiarise…”
So, the dean met with our professor and explained the charges and our professor was then thrown into a fit of disbelief. He was mind-boggled to think someone accused his liberal-self of “racism”.
Even worse, the situation was aggravated when the dean told our liberal professor to “pass the student with a C” in order to avoid potential controversy.
When word leaked out of what happened, all of us in the English department were horrified, of course. We were also angry! If any of us had committed this act, we would have likely been suspended for an entire semester and had our financial aid jeopardised!
The anger in the English department was so immense that the black student eventually dropped out of school. It turns it, English was his minor area of study while his major was…take a wild guess…”BLACK and AFRICAN STUDIES”!!!
Go figure!
Posted by at 1:29 AM on February 22
Something tells me the noose was “conveniently” planted to derail the investigation and make her look like a victim before the verdict. How clever! Her comments about being a “black victim” only confirm this.
Posted by at 12:22 AM on February 22
Have we forgotten what month this is? It’s not plagiarism, it’s “Voice Merging” and part of black culture, therefore OK.
I believe she deserves a statue on the mall.
Posted by at 11:44 PM on February 21
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/education/12columbia.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2&oref=slogin
the link for above NYT article…
Posted by at 11:15 PM on February 21
From the New York Times’ October 12 profile story on Madonna Constantine (apologies for quoting the Times, but this is just too good):
[Constantine] earned her Ph.D. in counseling psychology at the University of Memphis, and spent five years working in the counseling and mental health center at the University of Texas at Austin before going into academia, first at Temple University. She came to Teachers College in 1998 as an associate professor and earned tenure in 2001, with, she said, more than 30 published articles under her name.
“Most people may go up with 15 or 20,” she said. “I figured as a black woman, I needed to at least double that.”
Posted by at 11:14 PM on February 21
“As one of only two tenured Black women full professors at Teachers College, it pains me to conclude that I have been specifically and systematically targeted.”
It only takes one. Does one need to become a tenured “professor” to figure that out?
Ronald
Posted by Ronald at 10:16 PM on February 21
Not only an instance or two of plagiarism here, but two dozen, including material taken from at least nine other students. Imagine the shamelessness required to plagiarize not only from one’s own colleagues, but from your very own students!
Columbia’s own website singles out plagiarism as the cardinal sin of academia (as did my alma mater), stating that plagiarism “cannot be tolerated” and that any student who engages in it “should anticipate being asked to leave Columbia.”
http://www.college.columbia.edu/facultyadmin/academic_integrity/.
To not dismiss Constantine, with a list of scholarly thefts so long that one wonders if she ever conducted any original research, makes a mockery not only of Columbia’s integrity policies, but of the entire college itself.
Posted by Dave at 10:15 PM on February 21
Alex is right.
We can’t give too much blame to the African who dumped the poor guy, however. He may have “plagiarized” the act from one of his kinfolk.
I wonder if King, Obama, Cook, or Blair wrote extensively of dumping White quadriplegics? They’ve sure done a nice job dumping on this society.
Posted by Annoyed In Illinois at 9:45 PM on February 21
What are the chances, given that almost all these “hate crimes” have turned out to be hoaxes perpetrated by the supposed “targets”, that this is not also a fraud, given now that this professor has been exposed as a fraud: Anyone dishonest enough to blatantly plagiarize is certainly dishonest enough to stage a phony “hate crime”, from which she benefits by playing “the victim
Posted by at 8:57 PM on February 21
The “noose” was discovered AFTER the plagiarism investigation had begun, over a year ago.
Another instance of plagiarism: Obama from the Massachusetts governor, in a speech.
Posted by at 8:49 PM on February 21
Now I understand what she had to gain from faking the noose incident. She was setting a stage to claim racism and witch hunt!! It makes so much sense now.
AHHHH, those low IQ Affirmative Action black ‘professionals’ are so crafty. This is the difference between intelligence and cunning. They know that they are not good enough and don’t deserve to be where they are so they always have a backup plan when their carefully deceptive world falls apart.
Posted by realist at 8:45 PM on February 21
I am surprised that nobody on this site have commented on wheelchair dumping incident. It was all over the news a week ago. Black sheriff’s deputy throwing quadriplegic white man out of his wheelchair. I think it’s a double hate crime. Where is dynamic duo of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton?
Posted by alex at 8:42 PM on February 21
So she plagiarized, big deal. King plagiarized. Obama plagiarized. I don’t think modern Blacks are capable of original thought. They have been brainwashed to believe that they are owed everything in life. They have the Black leadership and White liberal thinking for them.
Posted by Drifter at 8:36 PM on February 21
Hello! The investigation of Professor Constantine’s plagiarism was initiated well before the noose incident. Doesn’t that tell us something about who hung the noose?
I am an academic in New York City and can tell you that those (like Prof. C.) with degrees from places like Xavier University in LA and the University of Memphis are regarded as bottom-feeders. They’re both black schools with abysmal reputations. Graduates from them would never normally (?) be considered for academic positions. Such credentials would never be taken seriously under usual (?) circumstances.
What is Columbia University Teacher’s College doing hiring people with such qualifications? The reason is that Columbia carefully separates out TC from its other academic programs. Faculty from Columbia’s TC aren’t allowed (for obvious reasons) to supervise dissertations. TC is an institution designed to credential minorities in the NYC public school system to help them get well-paid administrative jobs.
If you look at the statistics on minorities who get “doctorates” in the the U.S., almost all get them in education. In all decent universities, Ed.D.s are not considered as research degrees and do not qualify someone for tenure.
Is this information any surprise to anyone?
Posted by English Tony from NYC at 8:25 PM on February 21
Plaigerism is a time-honored cultural tradition. Especially at a “teachers” college.
Posted by at 8:11 PM on February 21
The plagiarism probe was underway before the noose incident.
The school accused her of plagiarism because of the “structural racism that pervades this institution,” she charged. “As one of only two tenured black women full professors at Teachers College, it pains me to conclude that I have been specifically and systematically targeted.”
Yeah right. You were likely hired because of your race, and it is likely you will remain there because of your race.
Posted by at 7:51 PM on February 21
‘…’Teacher’s College has zero tolerance for racism, discrimination or prejudice of any kind,’ she said…”
But you have a tolerance for plagerism. Otherwise, why wasn’t this ‘professor’ fired.
”..she had ‘clearly’ been targeted because of her race..”
I guess she believes race trumps plagerism laws, hell it trumps everything else.
What’s that old joke about when the law isn’t on your side pound the table (or in this case scream that tired old carnard ‘racism’ or ‘witch hunt.’)
Sounds like the college has a pretty good case, otherwise they never would have attempted bringing charges against an AA hire.
Go ahead, Ms. Constantine, present your proof.
Bon
Posted by bo at 7:50 PM on February 21
“The university’s Teachers College announced Wednesday it had imposed “serious sanctions” against Constantine following a lengthy investigation it said uncovered “numerous instances in which she used others’ work without attribution in papers she published in academic journals over the past five years.”
This is classic, a long investigation by a law firm comes up with a dead bang case against the “Noose” prof and she screams to the high heavens that she is a victim of racism all those racist libs at Columbia. And that’s all it takes for vast numbers of “honorable blacks” to join in.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the next move from the “Noose” prof would be to demand Reparations!!!!!!! (I would also take a second look at her noose allegations.)
Posted by Jake at 7:47 PM on February 21
Just as many on here have predicted!
The woman is a fake and a fraud. And as bad as she is, the mainstream media whores have hidden her all the while.
“Teacher’s College has zero tolerance for racism, discrimination or prejudice of any kind”.
Well, every school I know of has no toleration for plagiarism, either. Of course when one is operating in the tradition of Jason Blair, Janet Cooke, and Martin Michael King, what can be expected?
Posted by Annoyed In Illinois at 7:44 PM on February 21
Plagiarism is a form of deceit and theft. It is the taking of thoughts and words of another and attributing them to oneself. If she was willing to secretly steal the ideas of her students, what else has she covered-up and lied about??
Posted by Kevin at 7:40 PM on February 21
How predictable that Professor Constantine immediately played the race card when caught with her hand in someone else’s work. It’s a knee-jerk reaction with blacks, whatever the circumstances.
Isn’t it interesting too, as someone else mentioned when this story initially broke, that in both pictures shown Constantine’s earrings bear a striking resemblance to the business end of a noose? Coincidence? Freudian slip? Hint to “those in the know” that she’s really just “settin’ up Whitey”?
And when she hired an attorney, lo and behold, judging from his last name, she hired a White one! Racial solidarity is all well and good, but hey, bro, we gots to win dis thang!
Posted by Wayne Engle at 7:13 PM on February 21
The cry of racism will save the day. Political correctness will demand thhat her accusers be condemned and ostracized, thier careers will be destroyed for accusing a black professor of such crimes; then all will be right with the world again!
Posted by at 7:05 PM on February 21
Could it be that the noose was left by an unhappy student that she had “borrowed” ideas from without giving them credit?
Posted by Cliff Yablonski at 6:56 PM on February 21
I’m sure the NYPD knows who hung the noose ofn this woman’s doornob. They had the survelance tapes and they certainly saw who did it. However, I’m sure because it was this prof herself or another black, they’ve been told to sit on the info. I’m sure there’d be hell to pay if they tried to arrest her or another black for doing it.
As far as the plagiarism goes, I don’t think anyone here is surprised that a black “scholar” might do something like that.
Tom Iron…
Posted by Tom Iron... at 6:47 PM on February 21
So the noose incident was a distraction created by “Professor” Constantine in the hope of avoiding an investigation into her activities?
Posted by at 6:34 PM on February 21
Did she find the noose before or after she found out she would be cited for plagiarism?
Posted by at 6:08 PM on February 21
I believe she found the noose before being cited for plagarism, but just before her latest book on “racism” was to be released.
Posted by Conrad R. at 6:34 PM on February 21
This is what happens when the circusmasters let these clowns write their “own” lines.
Isn’t there some sort of “Martin Luther King, Jr. Award” for black plagiarists? To commemorate King’s doctoral dissertation? A dissertation “written” back when King was writing his “own’ lines.
Posted by H. Dumpty at 6:34 PM on February 21
Good grief, a “professor” plagiarising the work of her colleague and her STUDENTS! How desparate and humilating is that!
Posted by martin_uk at 6:23 PM on February 21
What sort of “scholar” plagiarizes his own students? At least “Martin Luther” King plagiarized a colleague.
Posted by Cassiodorus at 6:13 PM on February 21
Did she find the noose before or after she found out she would be cited for plagiarism?
Posted by at 6:08 PM on February 21
A racist conspiracy at Columbia University in the heart of Manhattan, New York City? Nobody’s buying it.
Posted by St. Louis CofCC Blogmeister at 5:41 PM on February 21
