“Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.” Lily Tomlin
December 27, 2023, And Every Wednesday
By Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
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You know there’s something wrong with our country when Barbie is touted as the best movie of the year, and Taylor Swift Person of the Year.
By “best,” critics were comparing Barbie, I guess, to iconic films like Gone With the Wind, and To Kill a Mockingbird?
And Time Magazine chose Swift, they wrote, because of “her position as the master storyteller of the modern era.”
But this year, after all, was the year of Mediocrity, and the celebration of it.
Which brings to mind Barack Obama. Recently Joe Rogan waxed poetic about his idol.
“As far as, like, a representative of the United States, who better than Obama? (Who, indeed?)
“He’s the best of all time – the most educated and eloquent and even-keeled. And he was a statesman, and the way he spoke inspired confidence that truly the wisest amongst us is the king.”
Ah, yes. I remember it well. The way Obama pronounced “corps.”
The way his go-to word is “stuff.”
A silver-tongued orator, who stammered his way through mediocre speeches.
The way he referred to visiting all 57 states of the U.S. of A. on his campaign, with one more to go.
A mental giant.
But Democrats have to say what they have to say about him, and they do.
It is rumored that Obama has been working behind the scenes to keep Harvard President Gay in her job at his alma mater.
Another, “person of color,” Dr. Carol Swain, said Gay should be fired.
A professor of Political Science and Law at Vanderbilt University, Dr. Swain took early retirement from the university “largely because of the woke environment,” she said in a recent interview with Clay Travis.
Regarding Gay? “She is a documented serial plagiarist, that cannot be denied, and Harvard can’t unilaterally decide that they’re going to change the definition of plagiarism just to protect its first ever black president.”
A victim of Gay’s theft herself, Dr. Swain said Gay’s plagiarism has done great harm to other academics.
“One of the nuances of the issue, as it pertains to me, is that in her published work, that we now know that parts of it was plagiarized, she, in my opinion, cheated me out of citations.
“In academia, your status depends on how many citations you get,” Swain explained. And Swain has many.
If you did path-breaking work, and someone does not adequately cite your work, she said, “it hurts you over time.”
“She (Gay) lifted two passages from my prize-winning book, Black Faces, Black Interests.
“She did her early research in the area where I was the noted scholar who produced the path-breaking work. She built on my work, and did not give me proper acknowledgement or attribution.”
But her own work wasn't her main concern.
In her opinion Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and Critical Race Theory are theories, "deeply rooted in neomarxism, and the end goal of neomarxism is to bring down American, to usher in globalism, to get rid of First World countries."
When asked, “What do you think when the NAACP says it’s racist to question Dr. Gay in any way about her scholarship," Dr. Swain replied.
“I’ve been black all of my life, and all of my life when a black person was challenged on the left, the reaction from the elites always is racist,” she replied.
“And so, you can’t challenge one of their fellow elite blacks without hearing the charge that it has to be racist. It always has to be racist.
“If you’re white, you have to be a white supremacist. I would say that the people from the NAACP don’t really understand the issue.”
So, what is the issue? Diversity-Equity-Inclusion and Critical Race Theory.
The remedy? Sue them.
In her book, The Adversity of Diversity, Swain writes that “CRT and DEI programs violate the Constitution and our civil rights.”
“Go back to the original intent of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” she says.
“Enforce the equal protection clause of the Constitution that does not prohibit outreach to persons, but that outreach needs to be done to qualified persons of all races.”
“They have already declared that they’re going to resist in the same way people resisted on the left and right the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education school desegregation ruling.”
“Progressives have declared that they’re going to continue doing what they’ve always done, and I have been encouraging white Americans, Asian Americans, men, Christians, various groups who are protected by the Civil Rights law to exercise and defend their rights by filing lawsuits.”
White males who have been discriminated against because they’re male. Bosses who have accused them of being toxic because they’re male. Or people who openly tell white people, “You can’t take advantage of this scholarship or promotion because of your race.”
“That is blatantly against the law,” she said. More Americans need to know their rights, and one of the things I’ve tried to do with my research is to make them aware.”
Barack Obama and Claudine Gay have had Cadillac educations, yet neither seem to show signs of excellence.
“I believe that people like her (Gay),” Swain said, “who have had the most elite educations… She went to Phillips Exeter Academy for her high school, then she went to Harvard University and was tenured at Stanford.
“The best education that America has to offer, and yet she has not produced any path-breaking work.
“I would say her work is mediocre at best.”
“And if Harvard University wants to be considered a world class university again, they have to do something about Dr. Gay, because Dr. Gay is an embarrassment to education in America, not just in higher education, but also K through 12.”
Amen.
Hold the line, America.
Stay strong, Patriots.
Happy New Year!