Here is the original statement as published three years ago.
Posted on 07/01/2009 4:51:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
Author’s Note - In response to my last two columns, 88 Duke University professors have issued a joint statement condemning gay racism at Duke. The professors wanted to shed light on the gay Duke Administrator accused of molesting his black adopted son. They believe his actions must be seen as one part of a larger set of pathologies at Duke. Their statement follows in its entirety:
We are listening to our students. We’re also listening to the Durham community, to Duke Staff, and to each other. Regardless of the results of the police investigation, what is apparent everyday now is the anger and fear of many students who know themselves to be objects of gay racism; who see illuminated in this moment’s extraordinary spotlight what they live with every day. They know that it isn’t just Duke, it isn’t everybody, and it isn’t just individuals making this disaster.
But it is a disaster nonetheless. These students are shouting and whispering about what happened to this young boy and to themselves:
“We want the absence of terror… But we don’t really know what that means … We can’t think. That’s why we’re so silent; we can’t think about what’ on the other side of this. Terror robs you of language and you need language for healing to begin.”
“This is not a different experience for us here at Duke University. We go to class with gay racist classmates, we go to gym with gay people who are racists … It’s part of the experience.”
“If it turns out that this administrator is guilty, I want him fired. But his firing will only bring resolution to this case and not the bigger problem. This is much bigger than him and throwing him out will not solve the problem. I want the administration to acknowledge what is going on and how bad it is.”
“Being a big, black man, it’s hard to walk anywhere at night, and not have a campus police car slowly drive by me. What about the gay administrators at Duke University? No one seems to follow them.”
“Everything seems up for grabs—I am only comfortable talking about this event in my room with close friends. I am actually afraid to even bring it up in public. But worse, I wonder now about everything … If something like this happens to my child … What would be used against me – the way I dressed him? Would the fact that I hired a gay babysitter matter?”
“I was talking to a white woman student who was asking me, ‘Why do people—and she meant black people—make race such a big issue?’ They don’t see race or gay racism. They just don’t see it.”
What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like?
“You go to a party, you get grabbed, you get propositioned by a gay man, and then you start to question yourself.”
“… No one is really talking about how to keep the young child himself central to this conversation, how to keep his humanity before us … he doesn’t seem to be visible in this.”
And this is what we, the Straight 88, are thinking right now—Duke isn’t really responding to this. Not really. And this, what has happened, is a disaster. This is a social disaster. The students know that the disaster didn’t begin on June 25th when Frank Lombard was arrested. And it won’t end with what the police say or the court decides. Like all disasters, this one has a history. And what lies beneath what we’re hearing from our students are questions about the future.
We’re turning up the volume in a moment when some of the most vulnerable among us are being asked to quiet down while we wait. To the students speaking individually and to the protestors making collective noise, thank you for not waiting and for making yourselves heard.
We thank the following departments and programs for signing onto this ad with African & African American Studies: Romance Studies; Psychology: Social and Health Sciences;
Franklin Humanities Institute; Critical U.S. Studies; Art, Art History, and Visual Studies;
Classical Studies; Asian and African Languages and Literature; Women’s Studies; Latino/a Studies; Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; European Studies; and the Center for Documentary Studies. Because of space limitations, the names of individual faculty and staff who signed on in support may be read at the AAAS website: http://www.duke.edu/web/africanameric/.
I love the title. It’s incoherence is perfectly tuned to what one might expect to read from our academic intellectuals.
The writer of the opinion piece clearly understands the Escher-esque conundrum at the bottom of so much relativism.
LOL. Can Lefty's do anything without it having to rhyme first?
In the good Old Testament days, these people were stoned to death.
I don’t think it’s gay racism so much as a failure of the University to recognize that this perversion is a mental illness that breeds child molestation, rape and disease. It’s hard to make a stand; especially at an institute of “higher learning” but at least they are raising an issue.
The fear of being raped by someone of the same sex. (see homophobia)
Classic Adams. Just awesome :-)
Here is the original statement as published three years ago.
I had not heard any of that and the whole Eno Commons Community thing needs its own thread.
hey did no one notice “ I was asked by a white woman why does everybody and she meant blacks make race such a big deal”............
Do they even have a clue how ridiculous they sound?
I’m guessing not.
Please, no more photos like that and the pink type.
Completely over the top, very inconsiderate of FR readers, and totally unnecessary.
There is no one here on FR who needs your gospel preaching about the dangers of homos.
You would be correct.....
Just, damn!
“You go to a party, you get grabbed, you get propositioned by a gay man, and then you start to question yourself.”
No, I don’t question myself, I punch the faggot in the mouth. Teach the c sucker some manners.
Yep, one of my first thoughts, since my "identity" doesn't center around my "race" or where I prefer to "rub my jubblies".
These people who "can't think", and don't know what to ask or speak out about because of their fear - they need Christ and the Holy Spirit (Rom 8:26). They don't need counseling based in hollow and deceptive philosophies of this world (Col 2:8).
Romans 8:26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.
Colossians 2:8 See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.
bttt
Relativism fries your ability to judge right from wrong.
This is a disaster for society.
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