But there's a story within the story. Byrd failed to note that McLemore is a professor at a racist institution. Jackson State University is a publicly funded, black, excuse me, "historically black" university, whose students are taught "A knowledge and recognition of the value of both one's own ethnic and cultural heritage and of the similarities and difference inherent in a multi-cultural society." Translated into English, Jackson State students are taught to value blackness. In English, that's called publicly subsidized, institutionalized, educational racism.
While Professor McLemore may be an egregious hypocrite, for his comments on the election, there is absolutely nothing wrong with a people taking pride in their own ethnic and cultural heritage. People who take pride in their heritage should be the norm. Do you really prefer an America where minorities do not take pride in who they are, but think of themselves as victims, and where Whites do not take pride in who they are, but think of themselves instead, as exploiters and oppressors, as they are pictured in the propaganda of the Left? (Race being used today as a metaphor for Class Warfare.)
It is the victim/guilt nonsense that is destroying all of our heritages, and creating hatred. If the Professor really had more pride in his own identity, or at least some self-respect, he might not be so quick to whine because other people voted for candidates whom they felt represented their heritage and culture.
We need to get back to the common sense understanding urged so clearly by Booker T. Washington, which looked to progress by all upon principles basic to the American experience--individual responsibility and personal development, with mutual respect between the diverse components of a common homeland. (The alternative is, what the Left has promoted for the past three generations, deliberately trying to destroy whatever goodwill there was between the races: Creating Hate In America Today.)
I consider whatever Jackson State--the Professor notwithstanding--can do to improve the sense of self-respect as opposed to the alternatives, among its student body, to be admirable. It should be encouraged, not denounced.
William Flax
If they want to promote their group's "pride," they have to do it in a private school, without taking any public funds.