Former Delaware State University Professor Faces Prison Time for Assisting Peaceful Rally
By: Victor Trammell
Delaware State University (DSU) was founded in 1891 and is one of the country’s first and most prominent historically black colleges (HBCUs). Located in Dover, Delaware, the fully accredited university has additional satellite campuses located in the Delaware cities of Wilmington and Georgetown. Approximately 4,200 students are currently enrolled in the school. It is the second largest public university in the state of Delaware.
Dr. Jahi Issa (pictured above) was formerly employed by DSU as a professor of American History and Africana Studies. On August 17, 2012, Dr. Issa was fired by the HBCU for reasons attributed to an arrest that occurred on campus during a rally organized by the school’s students. The students held a peaceful rally, which was organized to protest the recent firings of favored black professors at DSU. After the melee, Delaware State Attorney Beau Biden’s offices filed Class A misdemeanors against the former professor. Dr. Issa is set to go to trial on October 22, 2012. Beau Biden is the oldest son of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden. Click this link to see footage of the DSU student rally and Dr. Issa’s arrest:
Dr. Issa’s permanent discharge came from his decision to attend and support the March 1, 2012 student rally at a DSU Board of Trustees meeting. In a phone interview with Victor Trammell, a journalist for BlackBlueDog.com, Dr. Issa explained the details of his case and answered questions about his opinion of liberal America’s coined, ”post-racial society.” (VT-Victor Trammell, DJI- Dr. Jahi Issa) Here is an actual excerpt of the phone interview’s transcript:
VT: Why were you arressted at this peaceful rally?
DJI: I was outside the school building (Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Peace) supporting students at a rally who were requesting that HBCUs hire more African-American professors. Campus police forcibly arrested me and charged me with inciting a riot, inappropritately touching an officer, foul language, and resisting arrest. Of course I pleaded not guilty to all charges. I believe my arrest was a result of retaliation based on a complaint I filed with the EEOC a year before this. I also filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Civil Rights Division.
VT: Do you believe that racial diversity at our country’s HBCUs should be a main priority in the 21st Century?
DJI: I don’t believe that influencing diversity in HBCUs should be a function of the federal government. It is a proven fact that black students who receive degrees from HBCUs, which have a predominantly black faculty go on to be more productive in the workforce than the black students who graduate from predominantly white colleges. Why would we change that trend? There seems to be a mainstream under-handed agenda to disrupt that progress.
VT: Do you think HBCUs are caving to radical liberal pressure to become more racially diverse?
DJI: I believe the country’s HBCUs are already racially diverse. Howard University is more racially diverse today than Harvard University is. The issue is not about diversity. It’s about stripping HBCUs of their favored authentic black professors and keeping black students away from them. Society seems to challenge the credibility of our HBCU’s African-American studies programs. In regard to my casee, I believe there is a double-standard weighed against blacks who exercise their first ammendment rights. We have a right to bring attention to the current struggles of our people’s culture.
VT: Do you agree with Malcolm X’s assertion that there can be no black assimilation of America’s vision for diversity until there is first more black unity?
DJI: First of all, I would like to tell you that I am a member of the NAACP. They told me they could not pursue my case. I know Al Sharpton personally and he told me the same thing. I agree with Malcolm X’s assertion 100%. I even agree that our country’s President would agree with that state of mind as well (laughs). He wrote that Malcolm X was his hero…He wrote it. I didn’t (laughs).
VT: In your opinion, does Obama’s presidency signify a post-racial America?
DJI: It does to the white liberal elite. They believe that the agendas of black organizations in America that want more attention paid to the still prevalent disparities suffered by blacks today must be pushed into obscurity. I think some people in this country wished Obama’s presidency symbolized a new post-racial America. But on the real, that is not a firm reality.
Dr. Issa is in dire need of an effective defense fund to argue his reasonable case against the Delaware State Attorney’s office. To donate any amount to his cause please click on the following link: www.hbcuinstitute.org
Dr. Jahi Issa has written two articles about the demise of HBCUs to two media sources. Click the following links to read them:
Victor Trammell is a resident of the Kansas City, Missouri Metropolitan area and is a student at the University of Phoenix School of Business Campus in Kansas City. He is a writer and editor for the YourBlackWorld.Net Coalition founded by Dr. Boyce Watkins.
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I will be donating to help this brother! This is a move by this university, so they can hire a caucasoid professor! Most of these so-called Black colleges are CONTROLLED by white money!
They get more grants and funds if they have an abundance of caucasoid professors and students. There was a Black college, who had a caucasoid quarterback at one time!!! How come a white boy ALWAYS have to be the ‘leader’ of the team at a PREDOMINATELY Black college or university?
“After the melee, Delaware State Attorney Beau Biden’s offices filed Class A misdemeanors against the former professor. Dr. Issa is set to go to trial on October 22, 2012. Beau Biden is the oldest son of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.”
This just goes to show y’all how these yankees really feel about us! This is Joe Biden’s oldest brother, who is filing this suit; therefore, what do y’all think about Biden, who is O’Drama’s vice president? He’s a racist too!!! Remember, he said, y’all negroids will be back in slavery?
I’M OUT!
That fool knows that no one goes to jail on a misdemeaner. Dont be fool enough to fall for this d**n scam.
This “N” word got the nerve to be complaining about losing a job he shouldn’t have had in the first place and trying to scam negroes out of money, while even our black american entertainers are scorned when they play an african character and they give us no jobs?
South Africans protest at plans to cast Jennifer Hudson as Winnie …
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1234105/South-Africans-protest…
Actors in South Africa are campaigning to stop Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson from playing the lead role in a new film about Winnie Mandela. The Creative Workers Union of South Africa
@david: “This “N” word got the nerve to be complaining about losing a job he shouldn’t have had in the first place.”
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ARE YOU A CAUCASOID, TALKING OUT OF THE SIDE OF YOUR NECK?
Y’all crackers go around claiming we don’t want to work, but this Black man was working, and now you say, he should not have had his job!!!
By the way…the ORIGINAL ‘niggards’ were caucasoids!
YOU’RE ANOTHER FAKE PLANTER!!!
Why dont you old negroes understand that it is not about COLOR!!!! Always choosing the side of COLOR has our black AMERICAN people jobless.
Do you really believe that our ancestors marched and died so that others could steal our birthright?
No Americans need apply: something for everyone – affirmative action
As unlikely as it may sound, millions of immigrants and foreign visitors are eligible for — and many are actually using — affirmative-action benefits to get a head-start on U.S.-born minorities. In effect, they are getting off the plane and moving right to the head of the line.How is this possible? In the late 1960s, it simply never occurred to government planners that there would be so many aliens in the U.S. or that so many would be considered minorities.
The results can be startling. Take, for example, a company that has a goal to hire ten blacks. Nothing says these have to be African Americans, and they well may not be. All ten may be people who until now spent their entire lives in another country.
New research by Carol Swain, professor of law and political science at Vanderbilt University, found that illegal immigration is hurting African Americans. And, according to Professor Swain, the Congressional Black Caucus is not addressing this issue.
Most illegal immigrants have willingly left their homelands to seek their fortunes in a more prosperous nation. They were not brought in chains,” she said.
@david:
EVERYTHANG IS ABOUT COLOR, YOU BIG DUMMY!!! You’re just “COLORBLIND”! In other words, the cracker has BLINDED you to THINK that ‘color’ does not matter.
I am not a minorITY, I am part of the MAJORITY! That word is used, as a code word to mean
‘caucasoid fe-males’, and they have taken over ALL of the programs, that were meant for Black people. Over 80% of caucasoid fe-males, prospered from AA, and other government programs.
Now, these chili chokers, asians and lebanese are the NEW minorITIES. They are the very people, who are draining the welfare system, getting government grants to attend college, getting food cards, health insurance, and building BUSINESSES, off of our hard labor to gain these rights!
If you had 1 Black person, and 9 crackers, and a caucasoid fe-male was part of the nine crackers…she would get the job because she is considered a ‘minority’, although the 1 Black person is considered a ‘minority’.
By the way…Afrikans were ALREADY in amerikkka, and WERE NOT SLAVES! We were trading with the Afrikans in Afrika, which is ready to start again. There are movements RIGHT NOW, where Black Afrikans in amerikkka, are getting ready to trade with Afrikans in Afrika!
THAT WILL BE MY TICKET TO GET THE h**l OUTTA HERE, AND AWAY FROM YOU CRAZY CRACKERS!
I’m not saying that black americans should act like the african barbarian, but I am saying that these people should not be allowed to steal our present and our childrens’ future. Black unity will never be. The african cant even unite with fellow africans.
Beating, Raping, Burning, and Killing Foreigners in South Africa
Poor townships and informal settlements around the South African city of Johannesburg exploded in xenophobic violence two weeks ago, with South African black people lynching, raping, and killing legal and illegal immigrants from other African countries.
The scenes of mobs of young and old holding knives, clubs, and wooden sticks and brutally attacking anyone who speaks or looks differently remind of the scenes from the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the recent post-election violence in Kenya.
“They came at night, trying to kill us, with people pointing out, ‘this one is a foreigner and this one is not,’” said an immigrant from Mozambique. “It was a very cruel and ugly hatred.”
After beating, raping, and killing foreigners, angry mobs loot their belongings and set their shacks, homes, and shops on fire. So far, 24 people are reported dead, hundreds seriously injured, while over 10,000 had to take refuge in police stations and community centers.
A government official said it seems that “people think it is now fashionable to attack foreign nationals.”
The attacking mobs blame the foreigners for undercutting wages, taking away jobs, houses, and women, and contributing to the crime.
What about the black American students participating in the protest? he says nothing about them needing defense money for helping his sorry self. for brainwashing these kids he needs a life sentence. typical african behavior when it comes to black americans, use them and abuse them and steal from them, and make a fool of them, then abandon them.
Its a shame when the President allows is 2nd in command to be outright racist with no repercussions.
The Constitution gives us the right to a peacful assembly.
What is Obama and Biden believe that they are doing? There are way more of us, the hard working Americans who live in harmony and peace than them.
I do not get this at all. Prayers for this lovely professor and his family.
Derrick I do agree with you. I don’t understand why HBCU’s are allowing such an influx of Whites in these colleges. No, actually I do understand. It is a shame that we as people of color have allowed another race to dictate to us how we will live and be educated. And when someone does speak up for us, they are quickly penalized for it. And yes this also does say a lot about the type of home that our beloved Vice President comes from.
@ Sister Crystal:
Remember back in the day when Black radio stations ALL over amerikkka, ran a commercial, which said, “A Mind is a terrible thing to waste”? That was the united ‘negro’ college fund, remember?
You DON’T HEAR those adds any longer because negroids have became ‘minorITIES’. And the True minorITY is the caucasoid fe-male and male, who are prospering off the blood, sweat and DEATH of Black people. They are the new minorITIES!!! This is why I NEVER use this word to describe Black people. WE ARE THE MAJORITY CULTure on the planet!!!
Our schools are closing and failing our children because these ‘ivy league’ schools, both colleges and high schools are prospering from our economic enslavement! Our children suffer, while caucasoid children PROSPER!!! NOTHING HAS CHANGED since our forced enslavement.
They have the NEW books, computers, gyms, swimming pools, tennis courts, volleyball courts, baseball fields, football fields, and basketball courts; while our children are left with delapidated bullshyt! Outdated books! And, NO computers!
These caucasoids are moving back in OUR communities, while we e shipped out to their commnities WITH NO TRANSPORTATION. This is why O’Drama is building up bridges, streets and roads to get ready for the rail transportation, which caucasoids will enjoy!
This is why only 8% of the teachers in the unuted snakes are Black, and this is why our children are being taught by people, who don’t look like them, and are DUMBING THEM DOWN for their economic survival. Do you think these caucasoid fe-males love our children? If they HATE us, how in the h**l can they love and teach our children AT THEIR SCHOOLS of lower learning? Do you think they want their kids competing with our children in these hard economic times? This is a plan, and modernized slavery!!!
I’m glad some of my sisters are thinking with their 6th godly sense.
Peace
My son was raised in a city with a very bad reputation for kkk activity and rascism, but he persevered and excelled and went on to college, while most of his black friends dropped out of high school Why?
I say it is because:
I taught him early on to respect authority.
I kept him in sports.
But Derriick I will agree it is not good for outsiders to teach our black american kids and that goes for foreign black and browns and whites.
Our ancestors would turn over in their grave to see our schools in the hands of foreign blacks and whites.
@tony: “But Derriick I will agree it is not good for outsiders to teach our black american kids and that goes for foreign black and browns and whites.”
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WRONG! I agree with the ‘browns’ and ‘whites’ not teaching our children, but I had two Afrikan professors, who taught me from Afrika! They were the BEST teachers I had and they taught me a lot of literature and OURstory on Afrika!
They were professors, who taught me from Kenya [I took courses on my computer]!!! You must OVERstand, that the FIRST professors, universities and schools of HIGHER learning were built in Afrika!
The Afrikan Nubians and Kemetians TAUGHT the greeks EVERYTHING they STOLE from us. STOP PUTTING DOWN THE PEOPLE, WHO BIRTHED THE WORLD AND CONTRIBUTED AND INVENTED EVERYTING TO SOCIETY!!!
READ AND LEARN!!!
There are plenty of qualified laid off black american professors who could have taught you that.
Beating, Raping, Burning, and Killing Foreigners in South Africa
Poor townships and informal settlements around the South African city of Johannesburg exploded in xenophobic violence two weeks ago, with South African black people lynching, raping, and killing legal and illegal immigrants from other African countries.
The scenes of mobs of young and old holding knives, clubs, and wooden sticks and brutally attacking anyone who speaks or looks differently remind of the scenes from the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the recent post-election violence in Kenya.
“They came at night, trying to kill us, with people pointing out, ‘this one is a foreigner and this one is not,’” said an immigrant from Mozambique. “It was a very cruel and ugly hatred.”
After beating, raping, and killing foreigners, angry mobs loot their belongings and set their shacks, homes, and shops on fire. So far, 24 people are reported dead, hundreds seriously injured, while over 10,000 had to take refuge in police stations and community centers.
A government official said it seems that “people think it is now fashionable to attack foreign nationals.”
The attacking mobs blame the foreigners for undercutting wages, taking away jobs, houses, and women, and contributing to the crime.
@david: “After beating, raping, and killing foreigners, angry mobs loot their belongings and set their shacks, homes, and shops on fire. So far, 24 people are reported dead, hundreds seriously injured, while over 10,000 had to take refuge in police stations and community centers.
A government official said it seems that “people think it is now fashionable to attack foreign nationals.”
The attacking mobs blame the foreigners for undercutting wages, taking away jobs, houses, and women, and contributing to the crime.”
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Quit your ranting and raving! What you just posted sounds like what happened to Black people when racist klanners burned down TWO BLACK TOWNSHIPS; one in Rosewood, Florida, the other one was in Tulsa, Ok!!! Hundreds of Blacks lost their businesses, homes and lives because of jealous hearted, lying a*s crackers!
Let’s go to the enslavement of my people where 200 million Black Afrikan people were stolen from their land, their children and their nation by greedy caucasoid enslavers!!! Remember that?
What about the civil rights era where racist crackers enjoyed killing, sicking dogs, using waterhoses, billy clubs, trees, and other notorious ways of keeping Blacks from their civil rights! Not finish yet, youngster.
What about Trayvon, the brother that was shot 46 times in Saginaw, MI, the brother that was handcuffed and killed by the pigs, the brother, who was protecting his family and property, who is in jail for killing a crackerk, who tried to kill him…I can go on and on. Just this weekend another Black man was shot in the back by racist pigs, while he was handcuffed!
NEED I SAY MORE?
Like I keep saying; what happens to Afrikans in Afrika, happens to Black Afrikans here in racist amerikkka!
Let’s not leave out, how our voting rights are being taken away and this is 2012!!!
One more…what about the BEATING, RAPING, SODOMIZING, HANGING, KILLING, AND BURNING OF BLACK PEOPLE DURING OR ENSLAVEMENT HERE IN amerikkka? Not only to Black men, but Black women and also their children were raped, beaten and sodomized.
These caucasoid foreigners and strangers did this to my people, and still ain’t stopped!!!
That will do for now!
What differnce does it make if whites or foreign blacks are stilling jobs from the black american community? Either way, black americans dont eat, and black AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS are being ruined by both.
stealing
So your black govt forces black institutions to hire whites, but we have no affirmative action for black americans under this black president. It is as plain as the nose on your face.
Another reason for me not to suppport that ticket!
I use to hang at ” Del State” as the locals call it when I was in the Air Force in Dover. It was why I went to a black college( Lincoln in Jeff city, MO) and I thought it was a good place to be. I had a couple of high school classmates graduate from there and they loved it. Saddens me to see this happen in Delaware. There is not any free speech and suppressing a dessenting voice is in the crackers plan.
Perhaps Joe Biden should have said: “We’re, instead of ‘they’re,’ going to put y’all back in chains.”
This is the wave of the future, as crypto-fascism becomes more visible particularly after this ruling: “Obama wins right to indefinitely detain Americans under NDAA.”
[A lone appeals judge bowed down to the Obama administration late Monday and reauthorized the White House’s ability to indefinitely detain American citizens without charge or due process.]
Our First Amendment rights are under a neo-liberal assault.
Dr. Issa was actually on my campus a few weeks ago speaking at our Students Against Mass Incarceration (SAMI) meeting. Like the article says, he suspected that the real reason for his arrest was a retaliation against the complaint he filed to the EEOC, but he also mentioned to us at the meeting that the university probably wasn’t happy about his report “The Ethnic Cleansing of HBCU’s.” He said that essay also probably played a major role in his arrest, so this is actually a First Amendment issue.
THAT IS SO CRAZY EVEN IF HAD NO TENURE
SOUNDS LIKE ANOTHER AFRICAN SCAM TO ME! ANY FOOL THAT SENDS HIM MONEY IS NOTHING BUT AN IDIOT.
monique
§ 4206. Sentence for misdemeanors.
http://delcode.delaware.gov/title11/c042/index.shtml
get out of the internet cafe. there are no fools here stupid enough to send you money, even if he is locked up for a d**n life time.
I was born in St. Louis Mo
monique
§ 4206. Sentence for misdemeanors.
http://delcode.delaware.gov/title11/c042/index.shtml
stop lieing A-hole. I work in IT.
Monique: I wonder if you are a real person or an imposter who is pretending to be an independent person acting in the interests of those who are prosecuting and persecuting Dr. Issa. This is not a scam. You are either ignorant or you know what you are doing.
Too bad you cant leave your african internet cafe to find out who i am.
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I don’t know why Del State is run so poorly, violates the rights of faculty, and comes down like a ton of bricks for Prof Issa’s expression of Constitutional Rights. As for post-racial America, read Michele Alexander’s “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.” Scratch a liberal, find a neoliberal, in other words, someone who supports the corporate take over of everything and a retreat from the government promoting economic and social justice.
1) ALL COLLEGES RECIEVING MONEY (state/gov. funds,grants,etc.) are being asked or pushed to be MORE diverse (for diveristy). 2) If white colleges get diverse by an influx of black & non-white students,THEN an influx of white & non-black students (latino,asian,etc.) would be considered diverse for a black college—common sense folks. 3)NO COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION accepts or likes a professor/employee SIDING with students/customers or being public/vocal with their OPINIONS. 4) CHANGES are coming/happening to american college across the nation & many are becoming creative or thrifty about money matters. JUST MY 2CENTS:):)