Posted on 05/12/2008 3:08:16 PM PDT by neverdem
The May 9 edition of the New York Post carries a short article by an Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis student named Keith John Sampson. He tells a story of how he was charged with "racial harassment" simply because he was "caught" reading an anti-Ku Klux Klan book. I'm not kidding. Sampson tells his story:
The book was Todd Tucker's 'Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan'; I was reading it on break from my campus job as a janitor. The same book is in the university library . . . .
But that didn't stop the Affirmative Action Office of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis from branding me as a detestable Klansman.
They didn't want to hear the truth. The office ruled that my 'repeatedly reading the book . . . constitutes racial harassment in that you demonstrated disdain and insensitivity to your co-workers.'
Lillian Charleston is nationally recognized for her expertise and knowledge of Affirmative Action and related issues. In addition to serving as the Affirmative Action Officer for IUPUI for the past 16 years, she previously worked as a desegregation specialist for the Indianapolis Public Schools. She has been an officer and board member of the American Association for Affirmative Action and the Indiana Industry Liaison Group. She also supports her community through active board service with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Development Commission, the Indianapolis Urban League, the Indianapolis Chapter of Big Sisters, and the Association for Loan Free Education. She earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Indiana University in Urban Studies, Counseling and College Student Personnel.
Upon review of this matter, we conclude that your conduct constitutes racial harassment in that you demonstrated disdain and insensitivity to your co-workers who repeatedly requested that you refrain from reading the book which has such an inflammatory and offensive topic in their presence. You contend that you weren't aware of the offensive nature of the topic and were reading the book about the KKK to better understand discrimination. However you used extremely poor judgment by insisting on openly reading the book related to a historically and racially abhorrent subject in the presence of your Black co-workers. Furthermore, employing the legal "reasonable person standard," a majority of adults are aware of and understand how repugnant the KKK is to African Americans, their reactions to the Klan, and the reasonableness of the request that you not read the book in their presence.
During your meeting with Marguerite Watkins, Assistant Affirmative Action Officer [sic] you were instructed to stop reading the book in the immediate presence of your co-workers and when reading the book to sit apart from the immediate proximity of these co-workers. Please be advised, any future substantiated conduct of a similar nature could result in serious disciplinary action.
And they want my vote?
Heck, McCain probably supports this. Welcome to the one party future.
BUMP
BUMP
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How dare he?
Since IUPUI has decided not burn Sampson, will they burn the book instead?
When I was in 4th grade I sat next to a black girl. We were studying racism. There was a picture of a klan rally, or something along those lines. I just smiled and shook my head, unable to fathom how a person could be a racist like that.
Somehow the girl took it the wrong way, and may a slight fuss.
The teacher proceeded to make an example of me, regarding what a racist looks like in front of the whole class.
His name was Kubida. If I ever meet him, I’ll beat the piss out of him.
All of which is irrelevant. Some black Americans are like Lillian Charleston in their ambition to actually HIDE how some people fought back against the KKK.
I think they're sick; Fur Shur they shouldn't have important job in universities.
Hate to say it, but you have to be very careful what books you read at work. I love history, and was once asked to not bring one of the books to work anymore.
The shear raw ignorance and stupidity of (some of ) my fellow black americans disgusts me to no end. This man is a natural ally reading the history of how his own people fought the KKK and he is punished for it? God grant me favor, that I never meet a person like this AA officer ever again in my life.
If you work for a large corporation, odds are you already have a whole staff of AA officers available to you, they’re called “Diversity” departments.
Then you must never step foot into ANY college, nor any campus labeled "higher learning." Every single one of them are infested with this non-sense. From Harvard to your local community college. I defy anyone to find an institute of higher learning that isn't completely obsessed with this worthless, damaging b.s.
The old saying in the book publishing biz was: If you want to sell a loser, put a Swastika on the cover.
PC has probably made that ineffective.
What book did they ask you not to bring?
Universities have been, and should remain, educational institutions open to the exchange of ideas and opinions, especially those on the public dole.
Having said that, it's hard to compete with the university admin's fascism as exemplified here.
The GOP simply represents it current constituents.
Soft weak spined fearful feminized white folks.
The diversity business is completely insane. A few years a go I was working as a contractor for a company which will go unnamed (not really. It was American Express Financial Services, now known as Ameriprise). A co-worker, after a long evening of debugging, announced his triumph with an email to interested parties with a subject line that read: “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead”. First thing the next morning he was hauled into the diversity office and informed that slurs against those at American Express that practice the occult would not be tolerated.
Tell Miss Lillian how you feel:
http://www.iupui.edu/~aao/index.html
PS. I can’t believe she is paid over $100K. Nothing short of academic welfare. Obviously, she is not competent to perform a real job.
As Deacon Mushrat of Pogo fame was wont to say, "There's nothing so beautiful as a brightly burning book."
Deacon Mushrat was (comic strip Pogo's writer) Walt Kelly's representation of mush headed liberals.
Just think what kind of trouble he would be in now if he had been caught playing “hangman” on his computer, instead of reading a book about the KKK.
I think that the book reading student has a substantial case for a legal tort against IU for racial harassment. If nothing else, his attorney could compel the affirmative action officer to clearly state university policies about racial harassment for the record.
The lawsuit should be filed against both her, as an individual and IU, for violating their own policies to engage in racial oppression.
Since the case would be heard by a jury, this might prove very interesting.
Now there's a real skill set for you. But can she speak and write English.
The "more obscure" group has been a mainstay of the fight against this kind of fascist leftwing oppression on campuses across the land. FIRE deserves support and anyone seeking a cause to spend a few bucks on will be well-rewarded by sending it to them.
They have been especially effective in shutting down the Nazi-like "speech codes" at hellholes like Brown Unversity and U of Delaware.
“The GOP simply represents it current constituents. Soft weak spined fearful feminized white folks.”
That’ll leave a mark!
Hillsdale College. No federal money, therefore no federal strings atached. Therefore, able to teach actual real stuff without the PC disease.
Here's a quote: "When Mrs. Bowles rejects Montag's "poetry lesson," the fireman can restrain himself no longer. He tells her, 'Go home and think of your first husband divorced and your second husband killed in a jet and your third husband blowing his brains out, go home and think of the dozen abortions you've had, go home and think of that and your damn Caesarian sections, too, and your children who hate your guts! Go home and think how it all happened and what did you ever do to stop it?' "
My God! It must be the death penalty for reading Mandingo.
Funny how it's always the Leftists who are into book burning/banning.
I think there is only one word to say about this:
WOLVERINES!
An author of fiction could not create a more dramatic duel than the little known 1924 clash of the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame and the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Todd Tucker's work painstakingly describes a dark chapter in Indiana's history when the governor of the state was an acknowledged Klansman and the Klan boasted 350,000 Indiana members. Notre Dame students faced this formidable foe with the same courage and fortitude that has made their football team the stuff of legends. This fascinating history remains relevant today as the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan spews its hatred from its headquarters in nearby Osceola, only miles from the Notre Dame campus.
--Daniel Elbaum, Midwest Civil Rights Counsel, Anti-Defamation League
What book was it? Important info. When I was an E-5 and aboard ship, I was continually harassed by the “master-at arms” for reading a book in the chow line. He wrote me up for disobeying a direct order and when we went to Captain’s Mast I found out he couldn’t read and that’s why he harassed me. Charge was dismissed and the E-6 was busted to E-5 and directed to learn to read. Don’t know if he ever did. Moral of the story...people who harass you for reading are generally stupid. And dangerous if in a position of Authority.
Point taken, even though Hillsdale is a Liberal Arts college, it is not yet infected by this disease by virtue of it’s refusal to take Federal money.
Now if every institute of higher learning was forced to operate in a free marketplace (eliminate the subsidies), I dare say this garbage would be entirely eliminated.
“They started by burning books and ended up burning people”.
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I'm 50 and I go to my son's baseball here in Nashville and most of what I see are cracker sheeple and painfully soft males under 40.
I feel like that French guy in the famous photo of the Nazis marching down the Camps Des Elysee's
WOLVERINES!
Uungaawah!!
Funny thing was, one of the Jewish guys from work thought it was an interesting read, and we would talk about it. But some thought it wasn't appropriate for a multi ethnic work environment.
It was bad enough when it was just the liberals doing this nonsense, but the same bile comes from so-called conservatives on this forum when one even suggests that illgal immigration is wrong. Only whites can be racists...
It never ceases to amaze me what some people find to criticize. Like the seeking of knowledge is somehow harmful. Of course one must determine the intelligence, if any, behind such thinking. I’ve never known DummiecRATs to actually USE intelligence and common sense at the same time.
If I was seen with a science fiction book they said I was a "Trekkie"
If I read Harry Potter they said I was into occultism.
If it was a firearms book I was thought to be planning on shooting someone!(Yes ,I was asked if I was mad at someone.)
If it was a computer book they thought I was trying to hack into the company desktops.
And the strange looks when I was seen reading the Macintosh Bible !!!!
If I was seen with a science fiction book they said I was a "Trekkie"
If I read Harry Potter they said I was into occultism.
If it was a firearms book I was thought to be planning on shooting someone!(Yes ,I was asked if I was mad at someone.)
If it was a computer book they thought I was trying to hack into the company desktops.
And the strange looks when I was seen reading the Macintosh Bible !!!!
Notice the affirmative action nazi capitalized the “B” in Black. I bet anything that when she uses gthe term “white” it is in lower case.
When I lived in New Orleans many years ago there was a racist doctor (black) who ran a local newspaper. His paper always capitalized the “B” in Black and lowercased the “w” in white. It was so childish. He was later charged with fraud and income tax evasion, and was convicted of the latter. But, in typical New Orleans fashion, being a criminal actually elevated him in the eyes of the New Orleams electorate, as he has been elected to various positions.
“I feel like that French guy in the famous photo of the Nazis marching down the Camps Des Elysee’s.”
The weeper.
Who’s Oprah? And who are “they”?
Yep. Here in NJ, that describes the limp, PC haute bourgeoisie to a T. Of course the other white group are the proletarians, who these days are likely to be potheads sitting around who work four hours of an eight hour shift. No wonder the Indians are kicking their a-ses academically in the public schools.
We live in a time of deconstruction and decay -- we may be on the cusp of a new Dark Age. Unlike the ancient alchemists, our alchemists seek to turn ignorance into virtue, as this article demonstrates. One can combat ignorance with knowledge, if not with wisdom, and from that struggle wisdom might grow. But that is hard work. Then there are those who exclude knowledge and the possibility of wisdom. They wallow in their own ignorance and call it a virtue, then they demand that you celebrate the superiority of their ignorance. Only the most evil of people say that the emperor has no clothes...
I have a copy of William Shirer’s book “Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” on one of my bookcases and unfortunately it has a Nazi Swastika on the spine. This has caused more than one guest to my home to suspect that I am some kind of closet Nazi sympathizer. Never mind that the book chronicles the evil of the Nazis and is something everybody should read. Just having the swastika in view is offensive to many who have been brainwashed into being knee-jerk politically correct. But I refuse to take it off the shelf on principle.
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