Stealing Is Wrong (Sometimes)

“…So when I heard that the president of Harvard University, Claudine Gay, was a strong, intelligent black woman — excuse me, I mean Black woman — I knew right away that those crackers would try to take her down. They want her picking cotton, not fashionable eyewear.

I’m talking about those dirty Republicans, of course. They think that just because they freed the slaves, now they get to impose the same rules on Black people as everybody else.

And do you know how those plantation overseers did it? They accused her of plagiarism! They actually claimed a Black woman rose to a position of power by stealing the work of her peers. They had the gall to allege that she did so for decades.

Now, admittedly, this is absolutely correct. She did steal other people’s work. A lot. Like, a lot a lot. The accusation is 100% true.

Which raises the obvious question:

So what?

She’s not only Black, but a woman. Those immutable physical characteristics are more important than anything she may or may not have done, even if, as in this case, she totally did it…”