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Originally Submitted on 2014/09/06 at 6:50 PM by Kendra
Retitled by The Paine Project.  We call this Post:

Hands Up – “Don’t Shoot”

A Contrast in Black and White

The Paine College “drama” surrounding George Bradley and his administration is a text book example of inverse institutional racism. Of course, there is the political argument that Black people do not possess the institutional power necessary to commit racism which is the systematic oppression and individual actions that uphold power + privilege systems. But, when there are private institutions such as Paine College wherein power and privilege have been vested in Black administrators, that particular Black leadership does possess the power necessary to systematically commit institutionally racist acts.

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

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3 Comments

  1. Odessa Hooker '51 says:
    September 9, 2014 at 3:26 PM

    I agree with you, Kendra. Make some concrete suggestions about how we can rid Paine of George Bradley and his henchmen.

    Reply
  2. mistyangel says:
    January 13, 2015 at 10:31 AM

    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.

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