He ought have included a “the whites” in in somewhere.
"The Blacks" is said quite a bit here on FR. And it does sound strange.
Jesus Christ: You can’t impeach Him and He ain’t gonna resign.
It sounds strange to write “the Blacks” rather than just blacks.
He ought have included a “the whites” in in somewhere.
“........’I don’t know if you will find anyone to agree with me,’ he said in an email to The News & Observer. ‘Anyone who says anything is a racist and ignorant as I was called by a colleague. The question is whether you want to get involved in the harassment and few do. I am 80 and figure I can speak the truth as I see it. Ignorant I am not.’
Duke spokesman Michael Schoenfeld distanced the university from the professor’s comments, but also pointed out academic freedom provisions in Duke’s Faculty Handbook.
‘The point I was raising was why the Asians who were oppressed did so well and are integrating so well, and the blacks are not doing as well,’ Hough wrote in the email.
He added that his comment was not expressed as he hoped it would be.
‘There were typos in my outrage towards [the editorial] and I could have been more careful (though hard in the space limits),’ he wrote.”...
I agree, that did sound rather disjointed.
Actually, I am so tired of this racial break-down nonsense, that I don’t care if he listed ‘the Whites’ or not. I don’t have a problem with equal time, so if he had done it, it would have been fine with me.
Not trying to pass judgement on your suggestion because I think it makes sense.
He ought have included a “the whites” in in somewhere.
"The Blacks" is said quite a bit here on FR. And it does sound strange.
Jesus Christ: You can’t impeach Him and He ain’t gonna resign.