Posted on 10/02/2020 10:59:46 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
A professor at Ohio State opted to take anti-racist learning after writing an article talking about his love of college football.
OSUniversity professor Matthew Mayhew wrote an article for Inside Higher Ed touting the virtues of college football...
Mayhew, a Higher Education professor at OSU, insisted that Americas universities should get back to essentializing college football.
Essentializing college football might help get us through these uncharacteristically difficult times of great isolation, division, and uncertainty. Indeed, college football holds a special bipartisan place in the American heart, Mayhew wrote. At a time when colleges and universities have been placed under extreme scrutiny, many people are questioning the very value and purpose of higher education. College football reminds many Americans of the community values that underscore higher education and, by extension America itself.
Yet, with this simple premise that football should be brought back full force to make us all feel better Mayhew was accused of racism and white supremacy.
In a groveling apology letter, Mayhew says that he has learned how racist he is from the backlash to his football article.
I have learned that I placed the onus of responsibility for democratic healing on Black communities whose very lives are in danger every single day and that this notion of democratic healing is especially problematic since the Black community cant benefit from ideals they cant access, he continues. I have learned that words like distraction and cheer erase the present painful moments within the nation and especially the Black community.
I am sorry for the hurt, sadness, frustration, fatigue, exhaustion, and pain this article has caused anyone, but specifically Black students in the higher education community and beyond, he writes. I am struggling to find the words to communicate the deep ache for the damage I have done.
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“Critical Race Theory” be damned!
OSUs Buckeyes arent what they were, right down to uniforms.
Good thing he didn’t write about how diverse the NFL/NBA/MLB are.
I am sorry for the hurt, sadness, frustration, fatigue, exhaustion, and pain this article has caused anyone, but specifically Black students in the higher education community and beyond, he writes. I am struggling to find the words to communicate the deep ache for the damage I have done.
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I think he’s veering into sarcasm, which the butt hurt snowflakes won’t catch.
Cowards die many times before their deaths.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
This idiocy has to come to an end.
I believe in being on time, doing a fantastic job, saving and planning for the future. Accountable to the left, I am racist. Well they can take a long hike off a short pier.
If watching college football makes me racist I will be taking anti-racist training courses the rest of my life.
I can’t help but believe something else was going on.
What is sad is these sniveling nurds who will sell out their dignity as soon as someone mentions “racist”. I bet his accusers are yuking it up.
This is SO insane that I could easily believe an agent provocateur, although sadly, that is probably not the case.
These people are completely out of their minds and this professor has the integrity of a tooth pick to apologise
Woody Hayes is turning over in his grave.
He actual did teach an American History class at Ohio State, and he was a patriot.
In Back to School (1986), Robert Downey Jr.’s character’s statement that Violent ground acquisition games such as football is in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war was meant to be a parody of crazy leftists. Now it is university policy.
Give em an inch, they take your life.
The Left needs to be eviscerated.
The maoist cultural revolutionists need to be stopped by any means necessary.
Great statement.
I am sorry for the hurt, sadness, frustration, fatigue, exhaustion, and pain this article has caused anyone, but specifically Black students in the higher education community and beyond, he writes. I am struggling to find the words to communicate the deep ache for the damage I have done.
Hijo, what a pantywaste! And “essentializing” isn’t a word (yet).
“In a groveling apology letter, Mayhew says that he has learned how racist he is... Thats where I lost all sympathy for the man. He deserves all of the grief for being a coward.”
he should have defended himself to the max, and if they fired him, sued the living shite out of them ...
Yes, at least a Coward Medal with Golden Bootlicker Device level of performance.
Of course, due to this aggregious behavior, someone else will have to take the obvious next step and demand that all collegiate football scholarships be equitably distributed based on student race statistics either at the college, division, conference or national level.
What else could possibly be more important than ensuring that the races were proportionally represented? This action will relieve the Black community of its disproportional burden of “democratizing” football. They have suffered so much!
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As in the novel 1984, today’s equivalent of O’Brien will eventually take Professor Matthew Mayhew to “Room 101” for the final stage of re-education.
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