Posted on 02/13/2007 6:13:41 AM PST by ellen_rometsch
Every morning, I sit down with a delicious Dewick breakfast, coffee and the Daily. As of late, every morning, I make it to the Viewpoints page and read a heart-warming article about tolerance, diversity and community. Then every morning, I roll my eyes, shut the Daily and reach for a newspaper from the real world. This morning, after reading that not enough white people came to the town meeting and that intro-level English classes should be turned into race relations classes, I have had enough.
As a senior, I have sat through four years of listening to people opine over "race relations" at this school. As a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed freshman, I even used to go to these community meetings or events where President Bacow would show up in our dorm in loafers and a sweater to have a fireside chat about "realizing the potentiality of integrational equalities" and the like. At one of these chats, I came up with an idea for how to make the school more racially integrated. Thinking my idea was fairly straight-forward and rather brilliant, I suggested getting rid of race houses. I don't think people around here would feel so thrilled about a white, male Protestant house on Professor's Row, so maybe some people feel that way about an African-American house. Maybe not. But no matter how you feel on the subject, surely race housing is an obstacle to this desired enhanced integration? My idea was not so popular, and after many icy stares, I excused myself.
(Excerpt) Read more at media.www.tuftsdaily.com ...
Ping to read this later.
Oh it's not ignorance, honey. If you ask them about their beliefs, they will spew data until you'll want to choke their whole family to the floor. It's not ignorance. It's EVIL. Say it with me. E-VIL.
Ignorance is when you can't spell the words you are using, not when you simply use them.
What, exactly, will it take to recognize people based on the content of the character, and not on the color of their skin? The diversity programs specifically identify people based on the color of their skin.
She's railing against diversity and majoring in Spanish. Oh the irony.
Ahh I did this very thing during the Clinton years in college. I was placed on a panel to be questioned. Being blonde haired and blue-eyed they figured they couldn't lose and corner me into just going their way - WRONG. A question posed to me by an American African was "What would you do about inner city crime and violence?" My reply - "I would give them more guns and various other weapons to kill themselves off faster, and make a profit(with a smile!)".
That effectively ended my line of questioning.
Any locals able to fill in some of the gaps in the story? It seems there was some kind of (Christmas?) "carol" that enraged the campus because it was based on truths about affirmative action &c.
Sounds like Tufts hasn't changed in over 30 years ~ still a bastion of leftist intolerance.
Congrats to Ashley for surviving four years of brainwashing at Tufts.
" What, exactly, will it take to recognize people based on the content of the character, and not on the color of their skin? "
How apt that you chose the MLK quote -- he came so close to pulling it off that he had to be killed...
Never underestimate the power and the unbridled evil of the "Hate" industry.....
Article pulled??
My daughter goes to college in 1.5 years. They are in for an ass whoopin'.
Thank you for saying that! People do not need more education. They need moral constraint to control thier sinful impulses.
Well, there goes her GPA!
This parody was published in a student publication:
O Come All Ye Black Folk (sung to the tune of O Come All Ye Faithful)
O Come All Ye Black Folk
Boisterous, yet desirable
O come ye, O come ye to out university
Come and we will admit you,
Born in to oppression;
O come, let us accept them,
O come, let us accept them,
O come, let us accept them,
Fifty-Two black freshmen.
O sing, gospel choirs,
We will accept your children,
No matter what your grades are F's D's or G's
Give them privileged status; We will welcome all.
O come, let us accept them,
O come, let us accept them,
O come, let us accept them,
Fifty-Two black freshmen.
All come! Blacks, we need you,
Born into the ghetto.
O Jesus! We need you now to fill our racial quotas.
Descendents of Africa, with brown skin arriving:
O come, let us accept them,
O come, let us accept them,
O come, let us accept them,
Fifty-two black freshmen
You got that right. Today's post-Christian America does not recognize the existence of evil...only "choices". Thus, the left's apoplexy over Reagan's "evil empire" and Bush's "axis of evil".
Copy and paste link:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/12/11/tufts_editor_apologizes_for_satire_aimed_at_affirmative_action/
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