Posted on 12/13/2011 4:23:33 AM PST by Kaslin
Dear African American Center:
Season’s greetings! I wanted to write to you today to share a heartwarming story that will help kick off your annual celebration of Kwanza. It involves a young woman of color who recently finished one of my classes in the Department of Sociology and Criminology. She told me that she thoroughly enjoyed the course and was glad she did not drop it as she was advised to do. Sadly, the people who advised her to drop the class were supporters of the campus African American Center. You are doing a fine job of instilling the values of racial separatism in the hearts of this new generation of students. Never has a generation of minority students had so much social opportunity and so little desire to mingle with the rest of society.
You will recall last year when I wrote an article suggesting that numerous “centers” on our campus should be shut down in order to alleviate our growing financial problems. One of the many centers was the African American Center. Black segregationists – both students and former students - took to the local media to decry my opposition to racial segregation. Fortunately for me, after the controversy hit the local media, polling data showed that my ideas received widespread support among taxpayers. That is the way it always plays out. The divisive diversophiles run to the media calling people like me “extreme.” Then the polls show that it is the university’s segregationist diversity plan that is considered extreme.
Here in the South, we have come a long way. Segregation is dead nearly everywhere except on our college campuses, which are run by liberals from the North. Accusations of racism are usually only leveled at those who push for equality and mixing of the races. If my fifth cousin Theodore Gilmore Bilbo were alive today, he would be a college administrator. He would certainly still be a registered Democrat. He would also support the African American Center’s preference for racial separatism.
In the final analysis, the smear campaign that was launched against those who would dare to oppose African American Centers in general was harmful to your African American Center in particular. That harm manifested itself in at least three distinct ways:
1.) Supporters of the African American Center were the only ones who went to the media to complain about my general opposition to demographic segregation. This was despite the fact that other centers – Hispanic, Gay, and Women’s – were targeted for closure in my column. Put simply, this made it appear that blacks are even more firmly committed to racial segregation than other minorities. Regardless of its veracity, this is now the widespread perception. This reflects poorly on the African American Center.2.) Supporters of the African American Center made specific calls to administrators demanding that I be fired simply for expressing my First Amendment rights. Of course, Martin Luther King, Jr. would not approve of this. King relied heavily upon the First Amendment right to petition the government for redress of grievances. Today, too many black students shamelessly seek to destroy First Amendment protections that made the civil rights movement possible. This is harmful to oppressed peoples everywhere. Hence, it undermines the African American Center’s stated concern for helping those without a voice.
3.) Unfortunately, the incident showed that having separate centers is not enough for some minority students. Some want to see racially segregated classrooms, too. Specifically, some diversophiles want to make sure that opponents of the African American Center are stuck teaching all-white classes. Telling black students not to take classes from professors who oppose African American Centers simply spreads segregation from the centers to the classroom. Why would black students want to punish a professor who says he wants more racial integration by ensuring he only teaches whites? This is a perversion of diversity. It’s perversity. It shows that the African American Center has been teaching racism, not eradicating it. And this is simply a disgrace to the entire university.
Segregation in the name of diversity must be opposed today. Segregation in the name of diversity must be opposed tomorrow. Segregation in the name of diversity must be opposed forever. It is time for the diversity movement to honor the memory of Martin Luther King, not the memory of Governor George Wallace or Theodore Gilmore Bilbo.
But far be it from me to suggest we should close the African American Center. I would hate to wind up in another tussle with the local media. And I’d hate to be blacklisted all over again.
Teddy Roosevelt warned against hypenated Americans.
I especially like the way minority kids run around here like THEY invented college and the college experience... AS IF it's only happening to them!!! Duhhhh...
When I became a Naturalized Citizen in 1977 we were all told that we are now Americans, not German-American, Korean-American, Italian-American etc.
Thank you for the affirmation. Belated welcomes to you.
Someone in the African American Center is going to complain that this usage of "black" is racist too.
I was going to get funding for my ethnic group to start a center. I suspect since only half my heritage comes from that ethnic group they unfairly denied it. This is despite the fact that one administrator did claim I looked and acted as if I was fully of that group. They actually pointed out that since I couldn’t point to any point of origin for that group it wasn’t a real group. I will have to go ask my mother about this for she must surely know where that half of my heritage comes from. She has repeatedly told me I was half an idiot but I can’t find this Idiot country on the map anywhere so I can get my funding. She said I got it from my father, maybe I should ask him.
Although this story is written about College it could well have been written about Congress.
What difference is there between the African American Center and the Congressional Black Caucus. Blacks are segregating themselves in both instances.
The CBC certainly has little interest in integrating itself into the Congress and it has spawned the Hispanic Caucus.
which is just as bad.
These people are not interested in what is best for our country, they are only interested in advancing their own race’s.Oh well the one thing the CBC does is hold down the censures at the ethics committee for their members.
That country extends from the Mason Dixon Line north to Canada.
I think the problem begins with the words “African American” It implies that the person is African first and American second and forces everyone to decide if they think blacks are Africans who happen to be Americans or Americans who happen to be ancestors of Africans.
Now just think what would happen if everyone started calling blacks “American Africans”. It would suddenly change the whole picture.
When I was in the Navy Reserves, we had a lieutenant who was the prettiest little thing... she used to snap “I ain’t African-American. I’m BLACK. And I’m not from Africa. I’m from Georgia. I don’t even want to SEE Africa.” She was funny.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. When it comes to being racist, Blacks are second to none. After living with them and around them all these years I’m sick of their whining, complaining, finger pointing, false accusations, gang banging, rap, crime rate way out of proportion to their percentage of the population, welfare mooching, ignorant arrogance. Let’s do what the black separatist racists want and give them, say, NY and MA states for their own country and send all of them there.
Mike Adams highlights the very reason why I do not support my university or alumni associations.
I would like to copy the CBC's charter and replace black with white then publish it as a proposed new Congressional White Caucus.
I'd do this just to see the reaction?
I've flipped it. You can call me an American black man.
But American is really all that is needed.
If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.
Or you can get raw with these strings.
How about this gamechanger from America's Got Talent (which they SHOULD have won).
Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.
Do it!
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