- a foolish pianist
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fed_dude posted:
Maybe it's because we spent the last four years making legitimate criticisms of Obama, and were constantly called racist with all our criticisms dismissed. It seemed to work well for the left, so the right is trying it on for size. I mean, seriously, over and over again I was told that I could not possibly criticize Obama unless I was racist. So now the shoe is on the other foot, and lefties are upset.
It's like the congressional filibuster stuff. When Congress is majority Democrat, the New York Times will talk about how bad and anti-democratic filibusters are and how the Democrats should use the "nuclear option", but as soon as the Democrats are in the minority the New York Times talks about how important the filibuster is, and how evil it would be if the GOP used the "nuclear option." And they say it with a straight face.
So no, I don't really think people are racist just for criticizing Cain, but I do think incidents like this show that a lot of Democrat power brokers use race as a political tool, and really don't care about helping anyone but themselves. Sure, the same can be said about GOP power brokers, but that's not the topic at hand.
I'm pretty sure every complaint in this post is false, unless this is c/p'ed from somewhere, in which case it's perfect for this thread.
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- a foolish pianist
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From the Chronicle of Higher Education's Brainstorm Blog, by Naomi Schaefer Riley:
The Most Persuasive Case for Eliminating Black Studies? Just Read the Dissertations. posted:You’ll have to forgive the lateness but I just got around to reading The Chronicle’s recent piece on the young guns of black studies. If ever there were a case for eliminating the discipline, the sidebar explaining some of the dissertations being offered by the best and the brightest of black-studies graduate students has made it. What a collection of left-wing victimization claptrap. The best that can be said of these topics is that they’re so irrelevant no one will ever look at them.
That’s what I would say about Ruth Hayes’ dissertation, “‘So I Could Be Easeful’: Black Women’s Authoritative Knowledge on Childbirth.” It began because she “noticed that nonwhite women’s experiences were largely absent from natural-birth literature, which led me to look into historical black midwifery.” How could we overlook the nonwhite experience in “natural birth literature,” whatever the heck that is? It’s scandalous and clearly a sign that racism is alive and well in America, not to mention academia.
Then there is Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of “Race for Profit: Black Housing and the Urban Crisis of the 1970s.” Ms. Taylor believes there was apparently some kind of conspiracy in the federal government’s promotion of single family homes in black neighborhoods after the unrest of the 1960s. Single family homes! The audacity! But Ms. Taylor sees that her issue is still relevant today. (Not much of a surprise since the entirety of black studies today seems to rest on the premise that nothing much has changed in this country in the past half century when it comes to race. Shhhh. Don’t tell them about the black president!) She explains that “The subprime lending crisis, if it did nothing else, highlighted the profitability of racism in the housing market.” The subprime lending crisis was about the profitability of racism? Those millions of white people who went into foreclosure were just collateral damage, I guess.
But topping the list in terms of sheer political partisanship and liberal hackery is La TaSha B. Levy. According to the Chronicle, “Ms. Levy is interested in examining the long tradition of black Republicanism, especially the rightward ideological shift it took in the 1980s after the election of Ronald Reagan. Ms. Levy’s dissertation argues that conservatives like Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, John McWhorter, and others have ‘played one of the most-significant roles in the assault on the civil-rights legacy that benefited them.’” The assault on civil rights? Because they don’t favor affirmative action they are assaulting civil rights? Because they believe there are some fundamental problems in black culture that cannot be blamed on white people they are assaulting civil rights?
Seriously, folks, there are legitimate debates about the problems that plague the black community from high incarceration rates to low graduation rates to high out-of-wedlock birth rates. But it’s clear that they’re not happening in black-studies departments. If these young scholars are the future of the discipline, I think they can just as well leave their calendars at 1963 and let some legitimate scholars find solutions to the problems of blacks in America. Solutions that don’t begin and end with blame the white man.
EDIT: forgot the URL - http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/the-most-persuasive-case-for-eliminating-black-studies-just-read-the-dissertations/46346
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