If 600 scholars halted their teaching duties for two days in order to protest “police violence”, there would be no adverse effect.
If 600 law enforcement officers halted their duties for two days, the effect would be disastrous.
With hundreds of Professors on strike, 10’s of thousands of college kids decided it was time for some serious day drinking.
Last night when I turned on my TV it was oddly set on a PBS Channel. I say oddly, because I don’t watch PBS?
Be that as it may, they are running their telethon series to raise money. Last night’s “documentary” was dealing with Historic Black Colleges and the struggle for education. I was going to change the channel, but instead opted to let it play in the background.
It covered from the time of slavery and not being allowed to learn to read to WB Dubois and up through the current failing of black colleges. Which my first thought was...see...we are moving past the perceived need for black colleges and people of color have moved onto regular campuses. This isn’t sad news, it should be good news.
But something else struck me too. At some point in the mid-century black colleges turned from education to focus on the civil rights struggle. And as a nation where we say all men are created equal, it was needed at the time especially as the deep south continued on its violent discriminatory path.
Somewhere along the line though, it seems to me that the black community has forsaken the role of good education in the struggle against prejudice and civil rights discourses. The great minds that came out of HBCU’s have faded into obscurity for a very different kind of life.
Several generations in mass numbers have forsaken education as their escape from the poverty of race. In the annals of their history at one point they valued education and something so common as learning to read, that historic pictures of newly freed slaves holding books were so important, that they were included in photographs at that time period.
So to the Ivy League professors looking for a social justice strike...who took the black communities best shot of avoiding a life of crime and poverty away from them? How did people of color lose their pursuit of happiness?
Can the pursuit of happiness coincide with their God given civil rights? And what should that look like? Did the civil rights movement ultimately destroy the black community? Now that’s a sharp question to ask.
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/tell-them-we-are-rising/
Could you make it for a year? I’m not feeling the love with just two days.
Dock their pay.
Make your political action on your own time.
You have the right to free speech but your right does not require me to pay for the practice of that right.
If I pay you for a service I expect 100% of the service I paid for.
So after making people pay insane tuition for glorified Zoom presentations you want to “strike” as well.
This will kill a lot of colleges already on the brink.
“Scholars”?
There needs to be a class action lawsuit against many universities
Piss off, useless jackass professors. Strike for a whole year in fact, the quality of the education your students get will be no worse if you disappear altogether and it would probably actually improve.
Please, make the shutdown a month, or even a year. Please.
I would be down? Learn the American language. She should be fired for speaking like she's from the ghetto.
Right! They are doing to education what they succeeded in doing to steel in the US
I say GO FOR IT! Americans found a work-around for THAT-and bought foreign cars. Personally, I have been driving since 1970-and I’ve never owned an American car.
MY education is complete so I don’t need ‘professors’. Maybe Trump ought to do to the NEA what Reagan did to the Air Traffic Controllers
A couple of free days off? Cool. Count me in.
Thats fine. Eliminate tenure.