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Simon Woolley and Kehinde Andrews are following the Al Sharpton script: seeking mass popular protest. Instead of dealing with a Cambridge crisis in the Cambridge manner, using the plentiful weapons at their disposal, they are seeking to play to Al Sharpton’s script. What do I mean by this? Simon Woolley has an official position which Al Sharpton, the National Action Network and the Al Sharpton script never had or involved. Massed protests are the tools of those without power…

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 As soon as news of Arday’s death emerged various people ran for cover. There is a story that his death was a confession.  There is no truth to this and could never have been.   Nowhere  in academic history has anyone committed suicide over a plagiarism accusation. What actually  happened is far more serious. Lanre Bakare contacted Jason Arday, a friend and colleague, and told him he was going to write a piece defending him.  In reality Bakare was…

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Simon Woolley is the Principal of Homerton College and was the lead supporter for Jason Arday. His main background is as a political activist. He has fairly negligible academic existence. He was moulded by Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson in a world of activism: “Al Sharpton’s overarching strategy centers on transforming grassroots outrage over racial injustice into media coverage, which he leverages to force political, legal, and corporate concessions.” Woolley is better known for activism such as Operation Black…

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Western academia is a viper’s den of humbug and hypocrisy. Let us call it out to its face. We all know about Caesar’s humbug about Caesar’s wife needs to be above suspicion, but what we have is any Black scholar ‘must be above suspicion’ even if his ‘white ‘ colleagues are convicted of guilt but have no or minor sentences. We need to set the grid lines before we begin to discuss Arday’s case. We cannot have an implied…

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Modern analytic philosophy  and modern neo-liberal economics have reformed a whole generations thinking about moral decisions. There  have been devastating consequences. In such cases typically the offending assumption is hidden away from sight. A contemporary  author writes:’To give attention to ethics is to consider what is right and wrong, what is good and bad, what is just and unjust, what sort of person one should be, and what sort of life and relationships one should have.’ (p.2 ‘Moral philosophy’…

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A paper presented to  a group of Afrocentric Scholars on 1 August 2026 I am puzzled but hopeful about my colleagues  and recent developments.  There is a question I want to ask but I need to portray the context with care. For this question I can start in 1870 ( you all know I am quite happy to start any discussion at 5,000 BC) How do we sit in 1870? The British had provoked a final war with the…

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‘Imagine a world where  a researcher has found that  all cases of high blood pressure in his hospital had very low magnesium. He gets a grant and surveys all cases of high blood pressure in Massachusetts. They all have  very low magnesium levels. He writes a paper arguing that the medical cause of high blood pressure is low magnesium levels – Theory A. Further researchers extend the research studying cases all over Eastern USA and find exactly the same…

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Western ethnomusicology is a philosophical quagmire. Music scholars are not usually well versed in philosophy. Confidence and sometimes intransigence  in their views is often demonstrated – but as they say ‘fools rush in …’. There has always been close connection between philosophy and music. Many modern Western musicologists trace this relationship back to ancient Greece and Plato . Others trace it to Pythagoras. The idea that music and harmony reflect something important about the universe is attributed to Pythagoras….

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Mark Sleboda let his underwear show in his podcast with Garland Nixon, revealing his deep contempt for Africa. The depth of this contempt affects his global analysis so one has to believe that he is in fact influenced by underlying racism, He says that Russia/Soviet intervention in Africa was a ‘waste’ at 36.00. For Sleboda Russia poured money and assets into Africa and ‘all of it was wasted’. Russia and Africa? One could go back many centuries but lets…

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