Hands Up – “Don’t Shoot”
A Contrast in Black and White
When a Caucasian police officer killed an unarmed Black man with raised hands in Ferguson, Missouri, a justice probe was launched. Let’s multiply those raised hands by symbolically placing them in a Paine College classroom.
How many “unarmed” black men and women stand on the threshold of being systematically killed by the documented abuses attributed to the George Bradley administration as revealed on the pages of this website? Are the raised hands of 800 students who are the victims of black-on-black crime committed in the context of failed collegiate leadership any less worthy of a Department of Justice investigation? Certainly, one conducted by the Department of Education is merited.
With regards to The Paine Project website’s Human Resources Mismanagement section, just how many of the sixty-plus faculty and staff Bradley has fired in his six year tenure is Black in comparison to white? And, with regards to strictly student affairs, what is the expulsion disparity contrasting the treatment of black students with white?
There is little doubt that if Paine College were a predominantly white institution (PWI), the revelations presented on this website would be more than sufficient for the Paine College Board of Trustees to demand Bradley’s resignation, or effect his immediate termination along with his entire executive staff. But, only because Black incompetence at Black institutions, and abusive behavior performed by Blacks against Blacks is viewed as being less reprehensible, is such tolerated with both white and black political indifference and indolence.
Bradley exists because he has been allowed to exist. The snake that slithers its way into the garden cannot be faulted for doing what it does when it’s allowed to remain untouched by the gardener’s hoe. So, those who whisper foul, and cry ouch when finally bitten have nobody to blame but themselves.
In the 132-year history of Paine College, George C. Bradley is the institution’s sixth Black president. Unfortunately, the legacy he will leave is not only an ancestral disgrace, but a disservice to all the Paine presidential leadership that’s come before.
Kendra
I agree with you, Kendra. Make some concrete suggestions about how we can rid Paine of George Bradley and his henchmen.
CONCRETE SUGGESTIONS:
The Paine Project website has amply researched and chronicled the abuses and betrayal of trust the George Bradley administration has committed with the support and endorsement of the Paine College Board of Trustees.
Based on the Spring 2014 on campus shootings, the college being on academic probation, the allegations concerning the misuse of federal and state funds, a civil law suit involving an on-campus student rape, an EEOC federal investigation involving sexual harassment naming the Paine College Dean of Student Affairs Reginald Beatty, who Bradley has now appointed VP of Student Affairs, a two school structure that has no academic deans as advertised on the website, the enrollment of students into academic programs that have insufficient instructors and equipment, the firing and forced resignations of over 60 Paine College faculty and staff members in 6-years, the DUI arrests of Senior VP of Institutional Advancement Brandon Brown, Bradley’s right-hand man, the recent arrest of Paine College’s track and field coach, the allegations against Bradley himself regarding undisclosed sexual indiscretions with a student at a previous college, not to mention a civil law suit concerning sexual misconduct involving a sitting member of the current Paine College Board of Trustees, I’m sure the national news media would find George C. Bradley and his entire executive staff worthy of a comprehensive and thorough investigative news report. Namely, news organizations such as CBS 60 Minutes, NBC Dateline, ABC 20/20, MSNBC, CNN, and even the news show American Greed.
If alumni, faculty, staff, students, concerned citizens, and advocates of Paine College seriously want to rid this school of the embarrassment Bradley has brought the institution, and the blight on its illustrious reputation as an HBCU, the following is a list of news agencies that should be either called or emailed. Certainly, there is a news producer who will find what’s revealed on The Paine Project website having national newsworthy interest.
An alumni and or student task force committee should be organized to send emails and letters to each of these news media agencies. That is a very concrete suggestion that will have immediate results.
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I met Mr. Beatty when he first came to Augusta. He seemed pretty straight forward to me. Though he seemed to be unaware of the environment he was in at the time, his purpose for being there sound kosher. I did warn him a person of his position needed to be careful. The position he held would allow him to be watched closely. August’s system of higher learning pays attetion.