Posted on 01/12/2017 11:11:29 AM PST by Academiadotorg
Occasionally, professors at the Modern Language Association (MLA) have good points to make. Unfortunately, they soon get buried in the MLA's favorite themes and concepts.
"Chicago remains one of the most deeply segregated cities in the United States," Soyica Diggs Colbert of Georgetown said at this year's MLA convention in Philadelphia. She then went on to explore "theories of white gender as a performative," "white gender problems," "white supremacist desire to control black people," and "misapprehension" of "vertices of domination."
Colbert spoke at "a special session" of the MLA conference on "Queering the Civil Rights Movement." Actually, Colbert and her co-panelists--Salamishah Tillet of Penn and Dagmawi Woubshet of Cornell-- examined the work of three artists active in the Civil Rights movement—Lorraine Hansberry, Nina Simone and James Baldwin.
Actually, with the exception of Woubshet’s presentation on Baldwin, the speakers did not really spend much time examining the sexual preferences of their subjects:
• Hansberry, author of the still-performed Raisin in the Sun, once described herself as a "heterosexually married lesbian," according to Colbert; and
• Simone, who recorded several songs chronicling violent episodes of the civil rights struggle, struggled with her own bisexuality, Tillet alleged. Tillet teaches a course in Black Rage at Penn. Most English departments are represented at the MLA along with the various "studies" that proliferate in academe.
Malcolm A. Kline is the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia. If you would like to comment on this article, e-mail mal.kline@academia.org.
MLA: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy, and a greater collection of folks who would be on welfare were it not for marshmallow requirement academic departments.
To the extent the “civil rights industry” has mandated federal interference in individual choice (”discrimination”), the civil rights industry is FAR from honorable.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is patently unconstitutional. The Constitution gives the feds NO authority over individual choice (”discrimination”). Individual choice is a states’ issue subject to the people and representatives of that state.
To the extent the “civil rights movement” pushes for unconstitutional federal interference in individuals’ lives, it is a corrupt movement, which can be seen in the results.
NULLIFY/REPEAL THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964!
COPS: Black Teen Behind ‘KoolkidsKlanKkk’ Account Threatening Black Students.
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2017/01/11/police-cite-student-for-threat-made-at-arundel-high-school/
COPS: Black Teen Behind ‘KoolkidsKlanKkk’ Account Threatening Black Students.
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2017/01/11/police-cite-student-for-threat-made-at-arundel-high-school/
WHEN ONLY THE TRUTH WILL DO....
Also... fallacy of the excluded middle.
To them, SOME cadre of humans has to be boss.
The idea that an ATTITUDE could be boss.. as I am fond of jokingly saying, everybody of every color ought to be a redneck... is not even on their radar of consideration. The result is that they keep on losing.
Not that the forebears of most black American citizens didn’t suffer. They did suffer, sometimes subtly, sometimes grossly. But surely they wouldn’t want their children to be suffering too! Their slavery isn’t forced; it’s invited. Look at a modern black legal immigrant from Africa. Almost always that person will be so busy hustling up business (and they aren’t afraid to show riches, but somehow they are not as crass about it as our domestic grille-tooth tigers) that that person has no occasion to complain about how badly treated black people are in America. And people pick up on that recent immigrant’s mutually profiting attitude and treat him with respect, not disdain.
Well we know MLK Jr wasn’t a homo.
Did she have any presentation prepared about Robert Mugabe?
No, I guess not....
King had faced violence before. But this time, he wasn't in the Jim Crow South. He was in Chicago.
Seriously, who talks like that?
when I ducked out of a panel at the MLA to have some scrapple and eggs at the Down Home Diner in the Reading Terminal Market, I told the waiter to rush the order because “I am covering a conference across the street and if I’m not back they’ll start the psychobabble without me.” That’s who talks like that.
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