I HAVE DECIDED TO TELL THIS PhD GRADUATE STUDENT STORY IN ORDER TO EXPOSE THE DARK, CLOSELY HELD SECRET OF RACISM AT THESE PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITIES. SOMETHING THEY ALL DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW..--IT BEGS THE QUESTION? WHAT CAN YOU DO WHEN A DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER LEARNING HAS A RACIST SELF APPOINTED GATEKEEPER? ---NOTHING!-- YOUR GOOSE IS COOKED--AND THE MOTHER OF ALL ( WIDE OPEN-- ABOVE BOARD) BLATANT ACTS of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, AND racism AWAITS YOU.
HIS EXPERIENCE BEGS THE SAME QUESTION? WHAT COULD HE DO WHEN HIS DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER LEARNING HAS A RACIST SELF APPOINTED GATEKEEPER? ---NOTHING!--HIS GOOSE was cooked:--well done--in more ways than one. Let's look at his case: (see below):
HERE IS HIS STORY FOR THE WHOLE WORLD TO SEE: Vibert Greene On Point.
This eye witness account will send achievers up your spine:
This Black PhD Grad. student was called into his Department's office and told to fill out a survey by the Department's secretary---The subject: "How he felt about the Department and the Professors?--He should have kept his mouth shut, considering the answers he gave.
One of his answers was "The professors can do Research, they are very good at Research--but they cannot teach--that was his First mistake; then he added this "The Professors in the department are racists"--his Second big mistake.
When word got out about the survey results, all hell broke loose.
THE RACIST SELF APPOINTED GATEKEEPER PUT OUT THE ORDERS TO THE DEPARTMENT'S PROFESSORS and ADMINISTRATION--UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD YOU LET THIS GUY SIGN OFF ON HIS PhD--HE IS NOT A TEAM PLAYER, HE CALLED US ALL RACISTS. AND WITH THAT, HE EVENTUALLY GOT HIS WAY--HE GOT WHAT HE WANTED--HIS ORDERS WERE CARRIED OUT BY HIS APPOINTED MAJOR ADVISOR--THEY HAD AN AGENDA--IT WAS SET AND THEY WERE DETERMINE TO CARRY IT OUT, EVEN IF THAT MEANT VIOLATING DEPARTMENT POLICY.
NOW, THAT THIS BLACK PhD GRADUATE STUDENT WAS OFFICIALLY DECLARED AN OUTCAST--HIS GOOSE WAS COOKED: The first act of discrimination, harassment, retaliation--call it what you will --had begun: They would not let him choose his Major Advisor nor the committee that would sign-off his PhD. Instead, they chose the Major Advisor and the signed-off committee for him. THEY DID ALL THIS AGAINST DEPARTMENT'S POLICY--even though they knew what they were doing was against the Department's Policy.
THIS BLACK PhD GRADUATE STUDENT--NOW, LABELED AN OUTCAST--took it all in stride, and pressed on. He completed all of his PhD course work with an overall GPA of 3.81 out of 4.0; he got his PhD required course list signed off as complete by his Department--: AND WITH NO HELP FROM HIS DEPARTMENT, HE PRESSED ON WITH HIS RESEARCH; HE SETUP THE INSTRUMENTATION, WROTE ALL TESTS AND VERIFICATION PROCEDURES FOR HIS RESEARCH-- HE DID ALL THAT WITHOUT ANY HELP (TECHNICAL OR OTHERWISE) FROM HIS DEPARTMENT--HE WAS ABLE TO INSTALL ALL REQUIRED EQUIPMENTS, VERIFIED AND PROVE THE SYSTEM OPERATIONAL. HE ENSURE THAT THE ENTIRE RESEARCH STATION WAS CERTIFIED. AND READY FOR USE ON THIS RESEARCH.
HE successfully completed his Research, USING THE RESEARCH STATION HE BUILT HIMSELF WITHOUT ANY DEPARTMENT HELP.
HE wrote-up his findings and recommendations for future Research AND SUBMITTED HIS THESIS TO HIS DEPARTMENT.
THAT'S IT--HE MET ALL THE PhD ACHADEMIC REQUIREMENTS AND THEREFORE, HAS ACHIEVED THE PhD; WHY??--HE EARNED IT FAIR AND SQUARE. THE CERIMONIAL QUALIFYING EXAM IS ALL BS--A GROUP OF PROFESSORS (USUALLY 4) SAT AROUND AND ASK YOU SOME UNDERGRADUATE QUESTIONS FOR AN HOUR OR LESS.--INSTEAD OF, FOCUSING ON THE RESEARCH; ISN'T WHAT A PhD IS ALL ABOUT--YOUR ABILITY TO DO RESEARCH? YOU HAVE ALREADY COMPLETED ALL YOUR REQUIRED COURSE WORK--SO YOU KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE ANSWERS IF YOU NEED BE.
RESEARCH IS ABOUT FINDING ANSWERS TO SPECIFICALLY DEFINED FRAMED QUESTIONS. IT'S ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE PRESENTLY DOING OR ALREADY DID TO ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS; THAT'S WHAT THE QUALIFYING EXAM SHOULD BE ALL ABOUT--SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS THAT YOU CANNOT LOOK UP IN SOME TEXT BOOK--YOUR ABILITY TO DO THAT IS WHAT A PhD IS ALL ABOUT; NOT ASKING QUESTIONS THAT ONE CAN LOOK-UP IN A TEXT BOOK.
AS A MATTER OF FACT, A PhD SUTDENT TOLD ME THAT DURING HIS QUALIFYING EXAM, THE PROFESSORERS DID NOT ASK A SINGLE QUESTION; HE SAID HE SPOKE FOR ABOUT 5-MINUITES AND THAT WAS IT. WELL GUESS WHAT? HE WAS WHITE AND HE ATTENDED THE SAME PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITY--GO FIGURE.
INSTITUTION OF HIGHER LEARNING SHOULD RID THEMSELVES OF THIS CERMMONIAL BS--SOME ALREADY HAVE. NOW THAT I HAVE LET-OFF SOME STEAM, LET'S GET BACK TO THE FACTS OF THIS CASE. WHEN ALL THE FACTS ARE CONSIDERED, THIS BLACK PhD GRADUATE STUDENT--NOW, LABELED AN OUTCAST DID ACHEIVED A PhD. AND HE EARNED IT FAIR AND SQUARE, IRESPECTIVE OF THAT CERMONIAL QUALIFYING EXAM BULL SHIT.
HERE ARE THE FACTS:
1) HE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED ALL THE REQUIREMENTS FOR HIS PhD.
2) HE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED ALL THE REQUIRED COURSES FOR HIS PhD with an overall GPA of 3.81 out of 4.0.
3) THE REQUIRED LIST OF COURSES FOR A PhD WAS APPROVED AND SIGNED OFF AS COMPLETE by his Department Chair.
4) HE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED HIS RESEARCH.
5) HE WROTE-UP HIS THESIS, Findings and Recommendations for FOLLOW-UP Research.
6) HE SUBMITTED HIS THESIS TO HIS DEPARTMENT.
HE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED ALL THE REQUIREMENTS FOR HIS PhD.
ALL THAT WAS LEFT, WAS TO HAVE THE PhD SIGN-OFF. AND THERE-IN LIES THE PROBLEM--THIS IS WHERE THE RACIST SELF- APPOINTED GATEKEEPER ORDERS WERE CARRIED OUT BY HIS (WITH DEPARTMENT APPROVED) SELF APPOINTED --MAJOR ADVISOR--OVER ALL OBJECTIONS AND APPEALS BY THIS BLACK PhD GRADUATE STUDENT--(THE OFFICIALLY DECLARED OUTCAST).
NOTE:
THE DEPARTMENT POLICY DICTATES THAT A GRADUATE STUDENT CAN CHOSE HIS OR HER COMMITTEE AND MAJOR ADVISOR WITHOUT DEPARTMENT INTERVENTION. HOWEVER, AS NOTED, THIS BLACK PhD GRADUATE STUDENT WAS NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT; AND IN SPITE HIS OBJECTIONS AND APPEALS, HE COULDN'T REMOVE THE DEPARTMENT APPROVED AND THE RACIST GATEKEEPER APPOINTED MAJOR ADVISOR. THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN AN INDEPENDENTLY SELECTED COMMITTEE AND MAJOR ADVISOR OF HIS CHOOSING AS DICTATED BY DEPARTMENT POLICY. BUT HE WAS NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT; AND BECAUSE HE WAS NOT ALLOWED TO CHOOSE HIS MAJOR ADVISOR, THE RACIST SELF APPOINTED GATEKEEPER GOT HIS WAY--HE WON ON DECISION DAY:
DECISION DAY AND THE FINAL HEARTBREAK--THE FINAL BLOW:
ON DECISION DAY they refuse to let his Research Advisor speak about his Research and findings--they even refuse to let his Research Advisor sit in the room with him--they told his Research Advisor that he had to leave, and he did; he said as he went by that he was sorry for what was happening and left the room. My question is this-why didn't someone said something? Instead, everyone just sat there in stony silence? Hard to believe, BUT THAT'S WHAT THEY DID AND SADLY THE TORTURE WENT ON. What came next should make any-one's blood boil--it did mine. His Major Advisor -- you know; the one that was chosen by the Gatekeeper and approved by the Department took the podium and--after asking a simple 101 basic Differential Equation question, said TO THIS OUTCAST BLACK PhD GRADUATE STUDENT ''You cannot differentiate" and with that, it was over.
CAN YOU IMAGINE? here is a guy with a BA Degree in Mathematics--A guy who took all sort of Advance Differentiation courses include one of the most difficult--PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS -- PLUS MANY ADVANCE CALCULUS COURSES AND PASSED THEM ALL. FOR THAT MAJOR ADVISOR TO SAY THAT THE GUY COULD NOT DIFFERENTIATE DEFIES LOGIC--GO FIGURE.
I SERIOUSLY DOUBT THAT MAJOR ADVISOR EVEN TOOK, MUCH LESS COMPLETED COURSES REQUIRED FOR A BA DEGREE IN MATHEMATICS; HE WAS COMPLETELY OUT OF HIS LEAGUE IN THE MATH AREA--HE WAS NOT QUALIFIED TO MAKE THAT STATEMENT.
BUT IT WAS PAYBACK TIME--AND THE MOTHER OF ALL EVIL--THE blatant acts of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and racism began to unfold, I would not wish his experience on any-one's worse enemy.
IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT such unethical behaviour is practiced at an institution/University of higher learning --especially, at a university that is regarded--as the "BEST PUBLIC UNIVERSITY IN THE COUNTRY" and consistently rated No: 1 in the Country.
AT A LATER DATE, ONE OF THE OBSERVER WHO WAS IN THE ROOM SAID WITH TEARY EYES "As I eat my dinner that night, I cried--I could not believe what I had just witnessed--blatant discrimination". and then added in disgust "That Department has some serious problems--I couldn't believe the discrimination".
CONSIDERED THE FACTS IN THIS CASE, IT DOESN'T MATTER ONE-GOD-DAMN-BIT WHAT THAT APPOINTED MAJOR ADVISOR SAID at that podium-- (you know; the one that was chosen by the RACIST Gatekeeper and approved by the Department) HIS ASSESSMENT AND STUPID REMARK WAS UNFOUNDED and WITHOUT MERIT: ESPECIALLY WHEN ONE CONSIDERS THE FACTS: AND THE FACTS ARE:
THIS GUY COMPLETED ALL HIS EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR HIS PhD: INCLUDING CLASS WORK, RESEARCH AND THESIS --AND, HE SUBMITTED HIS THESIS TO HIS DEPARTMENT.
IN MY OPINION AND WITHOUT PREJUDICE--THIS BLACK PhD GRADUATE STUDENT, (GIVEN HIS ACADEMIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS) EARNED THE PhD WITH OR WITHOUT THAT SECONDARY SIGNED-OFF CEREMONY, AN UNNECESSARY PRACTICE. IT'S NOT SURPRISING THAT SOME INSTITUTIONS DON'T HAVE THAT SECONDARY SIGN-OFF CEREMONY IN ORDER TO ELIMINATE ANY FAVORITISM AND OR DISCRIMINATION.
THIS BLACK PhD GRADUATE STUDENT SUCCESSFUL COMPLETED ALL REQUIREMENTS, EXCEPT FOR THE UNNECESSARY CEREMONIAL SIGN-OFF RITUAL.
THIS BLACK PhD GRADUATE STUDENT HAS HIS PhD; HE EARNED IT FAIR AND SQUARE. --LET THEM CHALLENGE THOSE FACTS -- THEY ARE SURE TO LOSE.
NOW YOUR EYES ARE WIDE OPEN. I WONDER HOW MANY MINORITY STUDENTS--UNDERGRAD AND GRAD. HAVE BEEN SCREWED BY THESE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING. MY GUESS IS--FAR TOO MANY FOR A CIVIL SOCIETY.
