Posted on 02/27/2007 9:45:42 PM PST by freespirited
The shoe fits, doc. Wear it.
I read the whole article with this question in mind: what kind of a job can you get in the real world with a degree in "African and African American studies"? Teaching at Duke, apparently.
Now the chickens are coming home to roost.
Post hoc ergo...
And I'll bet she's the type of journalist who denounces cultural conservatives for associating rap music with killing, mayhem, etc.
I will bet the beleaguered profs are exaggerating. Tremendously.
I have long suspected that the quotes in the social disaster ad were fake too.
He wrote: At some point in the past or present, White males have had their way with Black women. White slave masters were the initial perpetrators of sexual assault on Black women.
What an asshole.
What would the nation say if a "White History" professor reacted to the legal fallout from a rowdy hip hop party where a white girl was allegedly manhandled by several black males by saying that 'negroes have typically been animalistic in their sexuality towards white women since the time they were picking cotton'?
No wonder he's getting death threats. People like this shouldn't have jobs.
Replace the six black teachers who left with ten black teachers. I can see that they're so concerned about racism.
"...what kind of a job can you get in the real world with a degree in "African and African American studies"? Teaching at Duke, apparently."
Don't knock it, it beats working! And once you get the job...it's for life!!
We had a long discussion about what the word regret means, and philosophy professors weighed in and we had detailed discussions in terms of the epistemology of specific words, says Baker. If you talk to 80 different college professors, youll have 80 different opinions.
That's comedy gold. It was easy to write the hit piece, but when the reason for it was shown to be false, they had to sit around for hours defining words.
At Duke University this past spring, the bodies left to the trauma of a campus brought to its knees by members of Duke Universitys lacrosse team were African-American and women, she wrote.
The lacrosse teams notion of who was in service of whom and the presumption of privilege that their elite sports performance had earned seemed their entitlement to behaving badly and without concern for consequence.
Oh, brrrrother...those have got to be the most incomprehensible sentences ever written by someone described as an English and law scholar!
Looking back, they always said ," What do YOU think? And why do you think it?"
Theirs was the wisdom of men and women who had seen the rise and fall of Hitler,and had witnessed the politics of the Dreyfus affair, antisemitism, and Auschwitz. Many had served in the forces which liberated Europe from fascism.
This present generation of colleges faculty in their majority educate by espousing their personal causes and effectively blind their students to the understanding of all sides of an issue.
The Duke 88 have made their own epistemology , applied it, and now must suffer the slings and arrows of those whom they held in both contempt and ignorance through it.
They have no one to blame except themselves.
This makes no sense. The whole purpose of AAAS is to offer employment to people who majored in.... AAAS.
Dr. Chafe is the Dean of Arts & Sciences at Duke University. He is the author of "Civilities and Civil Rights," the authoritative book on race relations and the Civil Rights Movement in Greensboro, NC. Duke historians William Chafe, Raymond Gavins and Robert Korstad co-direct the Behind the Veil project which documents African American Life in the Jim Crow South. This project represents an effort to correct historical misrepresentations of African American experiences during the period of legal segregation in the U.S. The project, a collaborative research effort, does this by encouraging scholars to listen to the voices of those who survived an era of profound racial oppression.
He also founded Kentucky Fried Chicken.
William H. Chafe, The Road to Equality, American Women
group of 88
consumed with bigoted hate
a century late
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