Posted on 05/22/2008 4:15:55 PM PDT by John Semmens
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis student Keith Sampson was charged with “racial harassment” when he was spotted reading Todd Tucker’s “Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan” while on break from his job as a janitor.
The charge, since dropped after being widely criticized as “idiotic,” was filed by Affirmative Action Office of the university. The affirmative-action officer, who asked that her name be withheld, explained her action. “The fact that the book may have been anti-racist is not the point,” She said. “The fact that he was reading in itself is what is racially insensitive. Literacy is not equally distributed among the races. A white janitor flaunting his reading ability denigrates those who are less fortunate than he is.”
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What? This is a joke! Right?
Boy, you’re posts always throw me for a loop. LOL
semi-news, im guessing satire.
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis student Keith Sampson
What can a person even say to that crap anymore. It’s become so common place that it’s not unbelievable, it’s not surprising. It is infuriating tho. I just want to eat nails when I read about such things. So much so that I had to take a 2 month break from FR. I get too angry.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/05/read_a_book_get_charged_with_r.html
Now I'm depressed. I'm headed back over to the Ted Kennedy Death Watch blog to cheer myself up.
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