Still very much in denial, FAMU BOT Chair Challis Lowe sought to blame everyone else for her down fall rather that facing the harsh reality that it was her own actions that lead to her demise.
In her resignation letter, Lowe wrote "the truth of the matter is that it appears that because of extensive activity and lobbying by people opposed to my continued service to Florida A&M, that my reappointment by the Legislature was not likely."
Challis. Ms. Lowe. Come on girl, we'll let you in on a little secret, your blind allegence to Castell Vaughn Bryant was your down fall. As former Trustee Barney Bishop aptly observed, you had essentially become Castell's rubber stamp. You rubber stamped her firing of the 25 employees at the FAMU Center for Urban Policy and Commerce in what has now become known as the "UPC Massacre", no one has ever been charged or indicted for "alleged wrong doing" and the livelihoods and careers of the good people who worked there were shattered and destroyed. And for what? Just so power tripping Castell could get her "jolly's off"?
Your over the top support for UMES President Thelma Thompson, the 35 audit exceptions, declining enrollment, and a financial mess the likes of which FAMU has never seen were all racked up under your watch and contributed greatly to your downfall.
Now it appears that the hostile take over by the Corbin-Bush-Lowe-Bryant regime is about to come to an end. And, to that the Rattler Nation says good MF riddance!
See ya' pumpkin!
It is truly funny that of all people, especially The Good Doctor Reverend Pastor Holmes, was sitting on his high horse, yes HOLMES and the rest of the board members who lead the witch hunt against MR. Bishop and look who was right all along. Now as an alumnus who worked with other alumnus while Mr. Bishop was on the board I often, openly, in private, spoke of my belief that he was the best thing going on, on the Board of Trustees! Now, after 28 months of pure hell we see that he was right! Now the fact that Lowe is gone is a direct result of many factors and people, but we must not forget that Mr. Bishop is the MOST powerful lobbyist in all of Florida and he put the word out on Lowe. It is not often that I support or applaud a white man over a black person, period, but in this case Ms. Lowe choose much like Corbin, Bryant, Austin and Gainous to seek, be controlled by and lead by White Folk who could give a Sh*t about FAMU. All of these above-mentioned folk, including Holmes when it serves his own personal agenda, sold their souls, and for what, to be whiter than the white man, to be fully loved and accepted by the White Man, and my friends there is NO SUCH THING!
ReplyDeleteWe must be aware of our folk who wanna be, otha folk! We must also be MAN/WOMAN enough to admit when we were wrong. So, MR. BARNEY BISHOP if you are reading this, THANK YOU!
The Jeb Bush backed, James Corbin Created Chaos is Crumbling! Not only should Challis IS Lowe Go but Laura Branker, Willie George Allen and Leerie Jenkins should ALL resign as well.
ReplyDeleteFAMU is Finally headed in the right direction, just in time for Dr. Ammons!
Don't leave out Regina Benjamin!
ReplyDeleteWhen a man will stand and speak up as Mr. Bishop did he got my full support. Mr. Bishop got mine attention because this was a white man fighting for the black's and right then i knew he was the right man on the board. But when the DEVIL is fighting against you, you get tried so we had to see the right for the wrong separted by God because we couldn't see it.
ReplyDeleteBishop is still white but in this case he was also RIGHT! THANK YOU SIR!
ReplyDeleteDon't leave Pam Duncan out of the group of those who sold their souls and then wanted to "come back" when it got too hot for them. They didn't see anything wrong when they were blindly supporting casthell and challis is lowe when all of the destruction was happening.
ReplyDeleteWhen they saw the writing on the wall that this ship was sinking, that's when they decided to jump ...not because of any great awakening, but because they knew their futures in Tally and with FAMUans were on the line.
Long, long ago, we all knew that Barney Bishop was right in the majority of his arguments. What we didn't want to accept, however, is that because Bishop is white, he had no right to say the things he did. We all knew that he was right on target in terms of Lowe's rubber-stamping every doggone thing that Castell Bryant did. Plenty folk viewed the man's place at the table as him wanting to be an overseer of all of the members of the board. While certainly this can be argued, we have to acknowledge that he had valid points and arguments that we sismply did not wish to hear. Many of us thought, in private conversations, that his points were valid about the carte blanche that Lowe and others had given Castell. We dared not say these things publicly for fear of being marked a sell-out. But we knew. So, 8:14, there's no need to "thank" Barney Bishop now. You're a day late and a dollar short.
ReplyDelete8:51--how ridiculous you sound. Barney Bishop wasn't a "white man fighting for blacks," as you term it, BB was fighting for no one but himself and was in a place that allowed him open dialogue to do so. He saw himself as, as Kenneth Lay at Enron, as "the smartest guy in the room," believing that he knew more than anyone else on the board and everyone, in fact, "needed him" to voice what they were afraid to say. So, don't go thinking that BB was the great white savior. What era are you from, or better yet, what rock did you crawl from under. BB had motives that apparently EVERYONE saw besides you, of course. So don't gettin to praising BB for things unknown and unseen.
ReplyDelete11:08, your assessment of BB's personality is far more accurate than I think you will ever know.
ReplyDeleteBottom line is that, those list above had an agenda that fit themselves and their goals. The problem is/was, none of them did it for the absolute betterment of FAMU and those she serve. Some carried water for other, some carried water for self. However, the Supreme Being is showing that no one's agenda is greater than His. It has been, and is being carried out.
ReplyDeletePumpkin? Really, Is that how you feel? FTFO! LOL
ReplyDelete11:02 I have given of my time and money to MY BELOVED University. I also knew then what I know now, and that is even when BB as you put it was right, he had never set foot on our campus before in his life, nor had he ever supported one thing FAMU ever did. Having said that I took offense with his self-assumed ability to KNOW everything about what was BEST for FAMU and consequently his arrogances cost him any thanks that he would have rightfully deserved at that time. His obtuse ignorance and sheer impudence to even take an appointment to FAMU's BOT was even further evidence of his self-serving egotistical motives. Therefore, my thanks were in part due to the fact that he is now GONE and after leaving he assisted in something many others and I personally wanted, which was the removal of another incompetent BOT member and that has happened.
ReplyDeleteSo I stand by my thanks to BB NOW, today and not a day before, especially when he was on the BOT acting as if he had any vested interest in FAMU in his condescending, patronizing, paternalistic manner. FAMU was here before him and you and therefore since you seem to have been partaking in the massage of his posterior, then and now, please tell him I said thank you, TODAY.
There is still much to clean up. We still have others who do not sit on the board that are extreamly harmful to our beloved FAMU who has YET TO BE EXPOSED.
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ReplyDeleteThere is still much to clean up. We still have others who do not sit on the board that are extreamly harmful to our beloved FAMU who has YET TO BE EXPOSED.
SOME CURRENT EMPLOYEES
NAMES Please, so we can get to working on them too!
Jesus, if this was not a FAMU board I would have thought I have stumbled a KKK message board. You people are racist. All this talk of the "white man" this and that is the reason why no one takes FAMU as a serious institution. It really is just a case of throw tax money into the school and just to keep them quiet. All this finger pointing is insulting to education and to higher learning. FAMU is hopeless and way way behind. Oh the "white man" is to blame for that, what a joke!
ReplyDelete2:57--I, too, have given of my "time and $$" to the university. In fact, as a faculty member there now, I still "give"--to students who are in need of remedial assistance because they are poorly-prepared to do collegiate level work, and I so desperately want them to excell. It's nothing to shout about, and nothing to even mention, but since you brought up the "time and $$" points, I thought perhaps you might want to know that others do these very same things w/o offering to mention them publicly. What, however, does one's giving time and money to the institution have to do with the posts? BTW, the 11:08 post is mine also. And I still say that BB deserves no props from anyone and no "thanks" from anyone, either. His exit from the board had nothing to do with any position he took (or didn't take, for that matter), while he was a member. There was a conflict of interest in Bishop's statewide lobbying interests and his residency on the board. Lowe and Bishop were, as their skin tones indicated, as different as night and day. While I do agree that Bishop had a patronizing demeanor, was very consciously aware of his patriarchal meanderings, and was, most of all, the most condescending man who ever sat at a table, he still deserves no accolades. I'm certainly no fan of Barney Bishop by any means, and your venomous suggestion that have "posterior" motives as they are associated with Bishop, I stand by my argument that the man deserves nothing, least of all "thanks." And, by the way, I dearly love FAMU, having earned both undergraduate and graduate degrees from the insitution.
ReplyDeleteIn my above post---please excuse all typos, as in "excel" as well as others.
ReplyDelete...and misspellings. Fingers rushing across the keyboard...
ReplyDeleteIn addition...Board appointees are made by the governor and the Board of Governors. Folks don't appoint themselves, so BB simply accepted the position to which he was appointed, an appointment made by a fellow Republican, Jeb Bush. We must also be mindful of the fact that CVB is, too, a Republican. The turmoil that has ensued on the BOT was lead by another Republican appointee: Challis Lowe, so what did we expect? Birds of a feather...
ReplyDeleteMy dear Professor, I apologize if in anyway you feel that I was attacking you, for surely that was not my intent. But, as I have much better things to do with my time than to argue with someone whom I do not know, but respect because of their desire to help promote and further my beloved FAMU, I say it was an honor to have this exchange and now it would be my pleasure if we could put it to rest. Both, BB and Lowe are gone and that is that. We have a few more who need to go and some house cleaning also on the unviersity level as well and I wish to see that we undertake those task as soon as possible for the sake of FAMU. Therefore, any areas of differences that we may have, we have one common trait we are FAMUAN's and we both love FAMU God Bless you and continue learning and growing as will I. ( BB is a Democrat by the way and so was Bob Grham the former Gov. who as a state senator introduced the legislation to close FAMU in the 70's)
ReplyDeleteIf the law school fails to get ABA accreditation Challis Lowe will be one of many who should share the blame. Instead of slaying dragons she and Castell Bryant slayed deans, faculty, and departments!
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ReplyDeleteJesus, if this was not a FAMU board I would have thought I have stumbled a KKK message board. You people are racist. All this talk of the "white man" this and that is the reason why no one takes FAMU as a serious institution. It really is just a case of throw tax money into the school and just to keep them quiet. All this finger pointing is insulting to education and to higher learning. FAMU is hopeless and way way behind. Oh the "white man" is to blame for that, what a joke!
4/19/2007 8:40 PM
A Black person would know that Black people can't be racist. Racism is born out of economical constructs. We don't control requisite economic boundries to be racist. Perjudice perhaps, but not racist.
9:08 - BB is NOT a Republican. In fact, he's the former head of the Florida Democratic Party.
ReplyDeleteRight, but BB is a Democrat for Republicans. Just like Steve Uhfelder; former Commissioner of Agriculture, Bob Crawford; and T.K. Wetherell, FSU President.
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