Posted on 09/14/2017 7:23:05 AM PDT by missycocopuffs
Michelle Jones was released last month after serving more than two decades in an Indiana prison for the murder of her 4-year-old son. The very next day, she arrived at New York University, a promising Ph.D. candidate in American studies.
In a breathtaking feat of rehabilitation, Ms. Jones, now 45, became a published scholar of American history while behind bars, and presented her work by videoconference to historians’ conclaves and the Indiana General Assembly. With no internet access and a prison library that hewed toward romance novels, she led a team of inmates that pored through reams of photocopied documents from the Indiana State Archives to produce the Indiana Historical Society’s best research project last year. As prisoner No. 970554, Ms. Jones also wrote several dance compositions and historical plays, one of which is slated to open at an Indianapolis theater in December.
N.Y.U. was one of several top schools that recruited her for their doctoral programs. She was also among 18 selected from more than 300 applicants to Harvard University’s history program. But in a rare override of a department’s authority to choose its graduate students, Harvard’s top brass overturned Ms. Jones’s admission after some professors raised concerns that she played down her crime in the application process.
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She’ll fit right in. It was just a 19th trimester abortion
Especially when they could be in the room when Ms. Johnson has another "brain fart"?
Apparently she got interested in History in 2012.
Now she’s a PhD candidate at Harvard. I wonder if that’s because she’s a black who has been victimized by society? [/s]
I’m all for reform but I’m genuinely curious as to what her level of academia is and if this isn’t just more affirmative action placement.
A quick DuckDuckGo search brings up magdalene laundries as the number 3 hit and the Wikipedia article discussing it doesn’t cite her work at all.
From all I can discern she regurgitated existing works with an SJW and everyone’s trying to fall all over themselves about how brilliant she is and deserves a free scholarship.
Consider - if she were a white male would her works alone be sufficient for admittance? I very much doubt it.
Guilty as hell, free as a bird! That’s our America.
I know 2 individuals with Ph.D titles. Both would qualify as some of the most ignorant people I have ever dealt with. It’s like their brains just became stupefied after being stuck in academia way too long.
Quick, take down a white person statue and erect one of Jones.
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