UPDATED 2/23: The Cancelled Black Harvard Professor Who Found No Racial Bias in Police Shootings. Irony at the end!

 Kurt Mahlburg - Intellectual Takeout

Economist Roland Fryer talks to @bariweiss at @uaustinorg about his journey from a broken home to one of the youngest black tenured professors in Harvard history, the inconvenient policing data that got him canceled, and what motivates his academic work. https://t.co/PLYp7kMSyd pic.twitter.com/5jJwqn49yS

— The Free Press (@TheFP) February 19, 2024

 "Unless you have lived under a rock for the last four years, you will be very familiar with the claim that black Americans are disproportionately victims of police shootings compared with their white counterparts.

"But a nearly eight-year-old study challenging this narrative is enjoying renewed attention thanks to a recent high-profile interview of the study’s author, African American economist Roland Fryer, by journalist Bari Weiss of The Free Press.

"Professor Fryer published the controversial findings in 2016 while on the faculty of Harvard University. Regarding police shootings of civilians, the study concluded, “We are unable to detect any racial differences in either the raw data or when accounting for controls.”

"While the study did find racial disparities in the use of nonlethal force in police encounters with black Americans, when it came to shootings, Fryer’s results were emphatic. In fact, after controlling for variables, Fryer and his team found that black Americans were slightly less likely to be shot by police than whites, though that difference was not statistically significant.

"The finding flatly contradicts the claims by Black Lives Matter and other activist groups that racism drives police officers to use deadly violence against African Americans at far higher rates.

"Far from being an obscure academic, Fryer, at age 30, became the youngest African American ever awarded tenure at Harvard—and ultimately one of the highest-paid professors at the Ivy League school, with over 50 published papers to his name. In 2008, he was named one of the top eight young economists in the world by The Economist and, in following years, was decorated with several other significant accolades." . . .

https://youtu.be/rHDhj7Bua1Q

Like irony? You'll love this! Harvard Sanctions Economist Roland Fryer | Harvard Magazine

Guess who the Harvard official was that placed Professor Fryer on leave; Plagarist Claudine Gay!

UPDATE: Harvard Professor Told ‘Not to Publish’ Study of Racial Bias (msn.com)   . . .“I said, ‘Let me ask this: If the second part about the police shootings — this is a literal conversation — I said to them, ‘If the second part showed bias, do you think I should publish it then?’ And they said, ‘Yeah. Then it would make sense,’” he said.

“And I said, ‘I guarantee you I’ll publish it. We’ll see what happens.’”

“ 'I lived under police protection for about 30 or 40 days,” Fryer said. “I had a 7-day-old daughter at the time … So I was going to the grocery store to get diapers with an armed guard. It was crazy. It was really, truly crazy.”

"The incident has shed light on the left’s reluctance to accept findings that challenge their beliefs, the influence of academia in promoting certain narratives, and the speculation that public opinion is shaped by various institutions." . . .

I'm sure this highly agitated MSNBC's race lady Joy Reid and launched a major diatribe by her. TD

.@ClayTravis: "Does Joy Reid have any opinions other than everybody's racist but her?" pic.twitter.com/ritiivz66G

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) January 16, 2024