Does Any of This Campus Turmoil Have to Do with Race? No, the answer is No.

American Thinker ^ | 11/30/2015 | Robert Oscar Lopez

[SeekAndFind]

Allow me to generalize: no.  The answer is no.

No, Yale is not a hotbed of racism.  Neither is Dartmouth.  Neither is Columbia.  Neither is Princeton.  No reasonable person of color on any of these campuses really believes that he suffers interminable racial discrimination sanctioned by such institutions.  The best inducement to cathartic rage the Ivy Leaguers can find is strips of black electric tape on some old portraits (unclear whether it's a hoax) or the last name of one of the more progressive Democrats in history.

You know you're desperate when your slogan is "We Will Not Surrender to Six Strips of Black Tape" or "Woodrow Wilson Was a Racist!"  When you're fighting adhesives or people who died ninety years ago, you will quickly learn: to agree to fight such a battle is to lose it by default.  By this I do not justify vandalism or voting for Democrats, neither of which I do.

No, there is not a climate of bigotry poisoning the air at the University of Missouri.  That's where a gay black student council president and a hunger striker with a multi-millionaire father teamed up to get a few people fired and a whole country obsessed with their campus until Paris fell apart on international TV.  The high point of the Mizzou Affair was of course a swastika traced in ostensible human excrement, which for some reason the press failed to recognize as likely anti-Jewish, not anti-black.

No, blacks and Latinos are not particularly interested in "safe spaces" or "trigger warnings."  These pseudo-therapeutic phrases sound very much like (because they are) the type of babble heard from wilting suburban white girls.

[Mr. K]

It is just the vehicle to promote their ‘progressive’ agenda, and the people ‘protesting’ are just the useful idiots.

[Resolute Conservative]

The hottest beds of racism are in predominately black inner city neighborhoods.

[Balding_Eagle]

Global warming isn’t about global warming either.

It’s about very much the same thing as all this campus turmoil.

Control of the people who make this country work, and the eventual eradication of us.

[euram]

It does have a racial component. Most blacks admitted to colleges across the country are totally unprepared to handle college level course work. They then blame their failures on “White Racism” or “White Privilege” or some other such catch phrase. They then spend most of their time protesting against that catch phrase, fall even farther behind in their work, and inevitably fail. Then start demanding that the administration give them a passing grade or make some other type of arrangement suitable to them to make up their lost work, if not, risk being called “racist.”