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.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
That’s the communist way. Send dissenters to forced orientation camps - gulogs!!!
I think hes veering into sarcasm, which the butt hurt snowflakes wont catch.
Yes. Hes approaching John Cleese apology in A Fish Called Wanda.
Yes, several people think he might be deliberately exaggerating the groveling as a way to secretly rebel against what he is being forced to do. Even the NY Times was uncomfortable with how the man abased himself.
It reminds me of the Monty Python sketch about the dirty fork.
Yes, I agree.
Football players are white supremacists. /s
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Ohio State Professor to Undergo Anti-Racist Learning After Writing Article Praising College Football
Breitbart ^ | 10/1/20
Posted on 10/2/2020, 1:59:46 PM by Altura Ct.
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