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	<title>Comments on: Duke&#8217;s Privileged Puffed Up Professors</title>
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		<title>By: Amy K.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Amy K.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;Oh I guess I should add that academics often put things such as â€œforthcomingâ€ and â€œin pressâ€ on their CVâ€™sâ€¦&lt;/i&gt;

They only get to do that when they are &lt;b&gt;actually&lt;/b&gt; forthcoming and in press.  Since this academic has been saying her book has been forthcoming since 1997, she doesn&#039;t get to say that.  To me, 1997 doesn&#039;t seem that long ago.  But I&#039;m old.  Try to imagine that she&#039;s been saying this since you were in junior high.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Oh I guess I should add that academics often put things such as â€œforthcomingâ€ and â€œin pressâ€ on their CVâ€™sâ€¦</i></p>
<p>They only get to do that when they are <b>actually</b> forthcoming and in press.  Since this academic has been saying her book has been forthcoming since 1997, she doesn&#8217;t get to say that.  To me, 1997 doesn&#8217;t seem that long ago.  But I&#8217;m old.  Try to imagine that she&#8217;s been saying this since you were in junior high.</p>
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		<title>By: C dot</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2006/12/11/dukes-privileged-puffed-up-professors/comment-page-1/#comment-81740</link>
		<dc:creator>C dot</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh I guess I should add that academics often put things such as &quot;forthcoming&quot; and &quot;in press&quot; on their CV&#039;s...whether they are &quot;liberal&quot; or conservative...when y&#039;all get your PhD&#039;s from Stanford, them come back and discuss puffed up credentials, lol.

Keep your attention on Nifong, he&#039;s the true doofus on all of this...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh I guess I should add that academics often put things such as &#8220;forthcoming&#8221; and &#8220;in press&#8221; on their CV&#8217;s&#8230;whether they are &#8220;liberal&#8221; or conservative&#8230;when y&#8217;all get your PhD&#8217;s from Stanford, them come back and discuss puffed up credentials, lol.</p>
<p>Keep your attention on Nifong, he&#8217;s the true doofus on all of this&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: C dot</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2006/12/11/dukes-privileged-puffed-up-professors/comment-page-1/#comment-81739</link>
		<dc:creator>C dot</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How are Wahneema Lubiano&#039;s academic credentials a joke??? I&#039;m confused.  I took her class while an undergrad, and it was not a &quot;joke&quot;...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How are Wahneema Lubiano&#8217;s academic credentials a joke??? I&#8217;m confused.  I took her class while an undergrad, and it was not a &#8220;joke&#8221;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Seahawk</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2006/12/11/dukes-privileged-puffed-up-professors/comment-page-1/#comment-81627</link>
		<dc:creator>Seahawk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Congressman Jones of N. Carolina has asked AG Gonzales to look into Nifong&#039;s actions as a denial of the civil rights of the players.

&lt;i&gt;â€œMr. Attorney General, many of my constituents have expressed concern to me that the facts outlined in this letter are indicative of prosecutorial misconduct. I urge you to look into these matters to ensure that Mr. Nifongâ€™s actions have not illegally denied the accused of their civil rights as American citizens. . .After all, if the American people cannot trust those who theyâ€™ve empowered to pursue justice fairly, then hope for this democracy is lost.â€&lt;/i&gt;

Those in agreement with Jones may write,call,email, or fax him to express their support; and then write, call, email, or fax their own representatives and ask if they have joined with congressman Jones yet. . .</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Congressman Jones of N. Carolina has asked AG Gonzales to look into Nifong&#8217;s actions as a denial of the civil rights of the players.</p>
<p><i>â€œMr. Attorney General, many of my constituents have expressed concern to me that the facts outlined in this letter are indicative of prosecutorial misconduct. I urge you to look into these matters to ensure that Mr. Nifongâ€™s actions have not illegally denied the accused of their civil rights as American citizens. . .After all, if the American people cannot trust those who theyâ€™ve empowered to pursue justice fairly, then hope for this democracy is lost.â€</i></p>
<p>Those in agreement with Jones may write,call,email, or fax him to express their support; and then write, call, email, or fax their own representatives and ask if they have joined with congressman Jones yet. . .</p>
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		<title>By: Gayle Miller</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gayle Miller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I know I&#039;m hearkening back to something prehistoric here, but whatever happened to pride in accomplishment and the good old fashioned work ethic? It has always been somewhat the fact that SOME academic types were so wrapped up in worship of their own brilliance that they made no sense whatsoever, but it seems like the university is now a place for the supremely dysfunctional eggheaded elite idiots who are no longer capable (if they ever were) of critical thinking!

What this comes down to is that, perhaps, with only a mild degree of self-discipline, a person of decent intelligence could learn more on their own than in a university setting.  So why do parents and students commit themselves to a lifetime of debt?  For a piece of paper?  That&#039;s what it amounts to, doesn&#039;t it?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I know I&#8217;m hearkening back to something prehistoric here, but whatever happened to pride in accomplishment and the good old fashioned work ethic? It has always been somewhat the fact that SOME academic types were so wrapped up in worship of their own brilliance that they made no sense whatsoever, but it seems like the university is now a place for the supremely dysfunctional eggheaded elite idiots who are no longer capable (if they ever were) of critical thinking!</p>
<p>What this comes down to is that, perhaps, with only a mild degree of self-discipline, a person of decent intelligence could learn more on their own than in a university setting.  So why do parents and students commit themselves to a lifetime of debt?  For a piece of paper?  That&#8217;s what it amounts to, doesn&#8217;t it?</p>
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		<title>By: kempermanx</title>
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		<dc:creator>kempermanx</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>KC&#039;s post is great and to the point.  The only reason I know that Duke doesn&#039;t pull the plug on this stuff is they would be accused of racism for demanding real performance.  

The students also like the easy A&#039;s they get in all these classes taught by these self important fools.  

On campus the AA department is a joke, sort of like a plantation for the brain dead. The racism of letting these people teach is what White guilt is all about.  It easy to do, it&#039;s condescending and it gives the liberals that feel good feeling of helping out the poor Black folks.  They can not be expected to publish or measure up, they get their own rules, cause they are not understood.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>KC&#8217;s post is great and to the point.  The only reason I know that Duke doesn&#8217;t pull the plug on this stuff is they would be accused of racism for demanding real performance.  </p>
<p>The students also like the easy A&#8217;s they get in all these classes taught by these self important fools.  </p>
<p>On campus the AA department is a joke, sort of like a plantation for the brain dead. The racism of letting these people teach is what White guilt is all about.  It easy to do, it&#8217;s condescending and it gives the liberals that feel good feeling of helping out the poor Black folks.  They can not be expected to publish or measure up, they get their own rules, cause they are not understood.</p>
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		<title>By: TombZ</title>
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		<dc:creator>TombZ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Imagine the anger and frustration felt by people who have been affirmed upward into institutions and professions that are beyond their abilities to fully participate and compete.  

I guess it has to be channeled somewhere...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Imagine the anger and frustration felt by people who have been affirmed upward into institutions and professions that are beyond their abilities to fully participate and compete.  </p>
<p>I guess it has to be channeled somewhere&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Heliotrope</title>
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		<dc:creator>Heliotrope</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#2. FL Mom: I am not familiar with the Roseanne episode, but my experience with the elite brain trust has led me to prefer the proctologist every time. At least he doesn&#039;t walk around with his head buried in his area of expertise.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#2. FL Mom: I am not familiar with the Roseanne episode, but my experience with the elite brain trust has led me to prefer the proctologist every time. At least he doesn&#8217;t walk around with his head buried in his area of expertise.</p>
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		<title>By: FL Mom</title>
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		<dc:creator>FL Mom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&gt;&gt;&quot;The team of three professors rejected the paper on the basis that diversity must come from within and can not, by definition, be the product of collaboration.&quot;

Ever see that episode of Roseanne where she takes Darlene to Dan (who&#039;s reading at the kitchen table) and hems &amp; haws about asking him something when Darlene just blurts out, &quot;Mom wants me to go on birth control because Becky had sex.&quot; Dan&#039;s bewildered expression at hearing this is exactly what the professors&#039; thoughts in the above statement produces on practical people.

Let me guess, those profs tried to refute your point by saying they were the elite brain trust so they were permitted to collaborate for the sake of &quot;enlightening&quot; us yokels. :?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&gt;&gt;&#8221;The team of three professors rejected the paper on the basis that diversity must come from within and can not, by definition, be the product of collaboration.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ever see that episode of Roseanne where she takes Darlene to Dan (who&#8217;s reading at the kitchen table) and hems &amp; haws about asking him something when Darlene just blurts out, &#8220;Mom wants me to go on birth control because Becky had sex.&#8221; Dan&#8217;s bewildered expression at hearing this is exactly what the professors&#8217; thoughts in the above statement produces on practical people.</p>
<p>Let me guess, those profs tried to refute your point by saying they were the elite brain trust so they were permitted to collaborate for the sake of &#8220;enlightening&#8221; us yokels. <img src='http://lashawnbarber.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_confused.gif' alt=':?' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Heliotrope</title>
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		<dc:creator>Heliotrope</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I recently helped a 34 year old university student decipher and answer an essay question for his diversity class. (I am a registered mentor, and my guidance is permitted under university rules when I sign the paper as a mentor/instructor.)

The team of three professors rejected the paper on the basis that diversity must come from within and can not, by definition, be the product of collaboration. Of course, I won the challenge when I noted that they were collaborating in &quot;teaching&quot; diversity.

These progressive nut cases are everywhere. So often their writing in so convoluted that it can not be understood. I have termed it &quot;yo-yo&quot; prose. It goes up and down and nowhere, all at the same time.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently helped a 34 year old university student decipher and answer an essay question for his diversity class. (I am a registered mentor, and my guidance is permitted under university rules when I sign the paper as a mentor/instructor.)</p>
<p>The team of three professors rejected the paper on the basis that diversity must come from within and can not, by definition, be the product of collaboration. Of course, I won the challenge when I noted that they were collaborating in &#8220;teaching&#8221; diversity.</p>
<p>These progressive nut cases are everywhere. So often their writing in so convoluted that it can not be understood. I have termed it &#8220;yo-yo&#8221; prose. It goes up and down and nowhere, all at the same time.</p>
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