Hat tip Campus Reform
"Why do we have to talk about this in every class?" and another asked "It’s like people are trying to say that white men are always the villains, the bad guys. Why do we have to say this?”
That was the response from a couple of white male students in a class at Minneapolis Community and Tech College when Professor Shannon Gibney went into another one of her lectures on "structural racism".
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5276
This raises a healthy discussion on race matters in my view, and far too many of race discussions are anything but healthy. It seems that if you can't cry racism, the mantra now is "structural racism". Frankly, it is wearing thin. We have a black president, a black attorney general, many of our largest cities are under black mayoral leadership, and blacks and other minorities appear to be well represented in academia (faculty). At UC Irvine, where I teach part-time, the chancellor and vice chancellor for student affairs are both black.
"....that this is unfortunately the context of 21st century America.”
No, Ms Gibney, the context of 20th century America, perhaps, at least the first half of it, but not 21st century America. The context of 21st century America is when victocrats like you can get on your soapbox in class and harangue white students about such things as "structural racism"-whatever the Hell that is.
So when a couple of students speak out in Ms Gibney's class, she gets her hackles up. I think the school did well to take the students' side on this.
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Finally! The students themselves are objected to this B.S. that the race obsessed can't seem to leave at home... and the school backed them up!
Let them follow Ebonics to the dustbin of history.... and take Obama, Eric Holder, and President Jarret et. al. along.
One who has the courage of their convictions is never afraid to give a direct answer to a direct question.
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