Posted on 05/14/2016 12:59:25 PM PDT by Kaslin
In case you missed the hoopla, I was almost run off the Vanderbilt University campus in 2015 by student protesters and petitions denouncing me for bigotry and hatred. This was related to an opinion piece I wrote for The Tennessean about the Islamic faith and the need for Muslims to fully integrate themselves into our society. As a high profile, black, conservative woman on the Vanderbilt faculty, I was a conspicuous target.
During my sabbatical last year, I became the target of harassment and a petition demanding that I be suspended until I submitted to mandatory sensitivity training. That’s a rather odd request of a first-generation college graduate and a person who has overcome poverty, attained tenured positions at Princeton University and Vanderbilt, and had her research cited by the U.S. Supreme Court. My Christian faith, not my race and gender, defines me. It shapes the perspective I now share with you about Vanderbilt, where I have taught for the past 16 years.
Vanderbilt has excelled in many ways during my time here, but in other areas, such as those related to religious freedom and free speech, its policies have led to an unhealthy environment, making it more difficult for some students to thrive spiritually and mentally. On top of all that, there has been a series of unfortunate events that secular-minded people will dismiss as coincidental. The campus has been shaken by untimely deaths. So far in 2016 we have had one current student (Taylor Force) and two former students (Justin and Stephanie Shults) killed in separate terrorist attacks abroad just weeks apart. Force died March 8 in a terrorist attack during, of all things, a school trip to Israel. Two weeks later, the Shultses were victims of the Brussels airport bombing.
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And at many other schools as well.
We need many more of this woman, and many less Hillabeasts and Dorkbamas.
Assimilation, get used to it.
That is for sure.
Shades of the Cultural Revolution in China.
+1
Pretty good for a high school dropout and teenage mother, right? Of course, according to Sen.Warren & President Obama, "She didn't build this ...", she had help like so many others on the liberal plantation. The DIFFERENCE is that she did not stay on that plantation!
Good one.
According to Oblahblah, it’s all just luck for her.
God bless you Carol.
I’m afraid the libs are going to have to learn the hard way since they lack discernment.
Carol Swain you would be better off out of that school of darkness.
There is the problem. For her detractors, their race and gender defines them, not any silly old Christian faith! No wonder there is a disconnect!
Excellent post 7
The Maoists are back, and this time, they’re Special Snowflakes.
Lovely lady. Love her Grace Jones ‘do, makes me think of Nefertiti.
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