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That it didn't receive an answer is no shock to me.

I wouldn't at all be suprised if Malveaux and Clinton had worked out the call and response beforehand.

You are right on point, pt. The question and answer is utterly asinine.   

...making personal attacks I consider Julianne Malveaux (I actually refer to her as Dr. Malevolent.) to be one of the most dishonest and unprincipled people I have ever met. The whole notion of her presenting herself as a defender of black Americans is a hoot as far as I am concerned. I know for a fact, for example, that she once secured an interview with one of my former employers, who was the new chancellor of the college where I was employed as a dean, obstensibly for the purpose of discussing his plans for the school. My then vice chancellor later told me that Malveaux spent only about five minutes of her time with the chancellor talking about the changes he wanted to make before she launched into a long tirade about me. Yes, me.

Malveaux, according to what I was told, berated the chancellor for appointing me a dean because, in her words, "nobody in the black community liked me." This was an astounding statement that was based on nothing except personal malice and political disagreements. (I could not imagine anyone in the Asian or Hispanic community, at least the ones I am familar with, doing anything similar but black folks do this to each other every day and then demand that we not publicy air our dirty laundry.) I think Malveaux had a lot reasons, none justified, for doing what she did. I cannot list them in their entirety here but here are two: (1) the chancellor had not vetted my appointment with the local black leadership including the president of the local chapter of the NAACP who was one of Malveaux's closest friends; (2) I had played a major role in organizing an "insurgent" (I love that word.) politicial campaign that resulted in the election to the community college board of a black man who was born, raised and still resided in Bayview-Hunters Point and held a Ph.D in Education from the University of California at Berkeley. The candidate that Malveaux and her friends were promoting was that of a relatively recent arrival in town whose grandfather had been a bishop in the A.M.E. church. Imagine Harold Ford, Jr. but without the intelligence or charm.

Malveaux's tirade against me was so personal that afterwards the chancellor told my vice chancellor and others that he thought she was suffering from a broken heart. (She could have had a broken heart but not as a result of any romance or physical intimacy between she and I.) Shortly after this meeting rumors began circulating at the college that I had a reputation for beating up black women. I could never pinpoint the source of these stories, although Malveaux's friend who ran the local NAACP, was employed as a counselor at the school. Stories of this sort are tremendously damaging to one's reputation but there was nothing I could do about them except to continue to be civil and polite in my interactions.

I could recite numerous other tales about Malveaux including, for example, her being arrested and placed in handcuffs in the Detroit airport in 1995 for calling a seven year-old girl a "stupid motherf*#@*%" for accidentally waking her up and then going off on an airline attendant who attempted to intervene. Malveaux is as phony as a three dollar bill. She is simply a limousine liberal in blackface.

"making personal attacks I consider Julianne Malveaux (I actually refer to her as Dr. Malevolent.) to be one of the most dishonest and unprincipled people I have ever met. "

And here I simply considered her an ass merely from her syndicated column and infrequent TV appearances.

The article in question, I believe, was talking about SUZANNE Malveaux - the CNN reporter. Not the new President of Bennett College...but, since you've unloaded, any thoughts of her getting the Presidency of Bennett College?

Well, I blew that one didn't I? No sweat, no strain.

I don't know Suzanne Malveaux but since she began covering the White House she appears to be suffering from that syndrome in which victims of kidnappings etc, begin to identify with their abductors.

My only comment about Julianne Malveaux's appointment is that folks called me and after we all stopped laughing everybody made bets as to how long she will last as the head of Bennett College. She will go postal on somebody there sooner or later. This is a person who once broke up a political meeting that I had organized because someone failed to address her as "Doctor Malveaux."

I really enjoy your comments.

P6's joint is the only place on the world wide web where I hang out although I occasionally post a comment at places such as Jack and Jack Politics. (I love the site's name and its ironic juxtaposition with the watermelon drawing. Back in the day, Jack and Jill folks denied that black folk even ate watermelon. )