Posted on 04/04/2007 7:22:43 AM PDT by heye2monn
Camara, a native Filipino who grew up in Hawaii and enrolled at Harvard Law School at age 16, had been on track to become an assistant professor at George Mason University's law school.
In the five years since he wrote the racist phrase, it has surfaced from campus to campus, job interview to job interview -- a predicament that raises a broader question perfectly fit for these Google times: What's the appropriate standard for judging a teenager years later?
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
George Mason rejected this talented candidate during its gay "pride" week. The article talks about the "conservative image" of the school. What a joke!
It'll depend on if he is a liberal or conservative when interviewed....
What did he write? I didn’t see it anywhere in the story...
I think I’m more offended by the unwillingness of a journalist to actually tell us what it is at the core of the controversy than I would be by reading whatever the actual quote was.
Geniuses, male or female, make me feel a little inadequate.
This illustrates what I have been warning my kids and their friends—that what they post on MySpace or other comment/diary forums may very well come back to haunt them in the future. They have a hard time believing me.
A liberal could write authentic racist claptrap and still get the job.
This from a culture that lectures us for taking exception to pix of a crucifix dunked in urine. All I can say is, "Ah, Belgium, man! Belgium!"
Somebody quoted later in the article says the juvenile offender wrote the “n-word.” But the article does not give the exact quote.
“n-word”, “nuts”?
from the link at post #8:
Discovery
Simpson said that she learned about the outlines from a friend who mentioned them during a discussion of comments on race that had been made in their Criminal Law class. When she went to the outline database, Simpson discovered that two course outlines posted by Camara had disclaimers warning users that the notes could contain racially offensive shorthand. One of those outlines as well as a third outline used the abbreviation, “nig.” The issue in the famous Shelly v. Kraemer, for example, was framed, “Nigs buy land w/ no nig covenant; Q: Enforceable?”
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