Calling Obama 'Professor' Is Palin Code for 'Uppity': Prof (Obama mentor: Palin is a racist)

(Newser) – When Sarah Palin told Tea Party activists last week that President Obama was "a professor of law standing at the lectern," she wasn't just tapping into populist anti-intellectualism—she was also making a not-so-subtle attack on the president's race. So says Harvard professor and longtime Obama pal Charles Ogletree, who tells Inside Higher Ed that calling Obama "the professor" is close to labeling him 'uppity.'"

Other slurs against Obama—left wing, socialist, palling around with terrorists—"were buzzwords. But the reality was they were looking at this president as an African American who was out of place,”

No way. He was not "part of the club" as you put it.

Well that's what the university's statement implied:

From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School's Senior Lecturers has high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined.

I don't think the public statement does really reflect the feelings that tenured Professors have about Senior Lecturers.

They definitely aren't as high in the internal pecking order.

But the University is sticking to its view that they are to be regarded as professors.

Students love any prof who is an easy A; check back on his class records (if they exist!).

Student comments were positive. I agree that cake profs can get decent scores when students are just filling in bubbles, but the handwritten comments said he was an interesting, engaging, and passionate teacher. To my mind he's a tragic waste of potential. Of course, the tragedy started with his mother's choice to mate with whoever the father was, followed by his upbringing by commie friends incl. FM Davis so that by the time he reached sentience his attitudes were already a totally lost cause. Had things worked out differently, he could have been chief newsreader for ABC, chief children's storybook reader at the local library, anything that played to his one and only known talent of reading other people's words and making them sound good.

Ichabod1 is correct.

Ibn- is ‘son of’. Ibn- become bin- when occurring further down the line in a name. I cannot recall the proper grammar rules though. But that's where the ‘bin-’ in ‘Bin-Laden’ comes from, ‘Son of Laden’.

Ibni would be ‘My son’.

Anytime you see ‘Abd’ beginning a name it connotes slave or servant. The name ‘Abdul’ means ‘servant of’ or ‘slave of’. Abdullah translates to “Servant of Allah”.

‘Son of a slave’ would probably be ‘Ibn abdul’ or something, I think. But don’t take that to the bank.

John Lott in his book FREEDOMNOMICS explains how colleges are filled with angry leftist, liberal, Democrat professors who are locked into their positions forever by tenure.

John Lott’s Website

Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don’t
~ John R. Lott Jr. (Author)

7/25/2009
Two out of 111 University of Oregon faculty who are registered to vote are registered as Republicans
Dan Lawson, a journalism student at the University of Oregon, had this piece published in the Christian Science Monitor:

The University of Oregon (UO), where I study journalism, invested millions annually in a diversity program that explicitly included “political affiliation” as a component. Yet, out of the 111 registered Oregon voters in the departments of journalism, law, political science, economics, and sociology, there were only two registered Republicans.

A number of conservative students told me they felt Republican ideas were frequently caricatured and rarely presented fairly. Did the dearth of conservative professors on campus and apparent marginalization of ideas on the right belie the university’s commitment to providing a marketplace of ideas? . . .

The reaction of faculty at UO was what I would expect.

A professor who confronted me declared that he was “personally offended” by my column. He railed that his political viewpoints never affected his teaching and suggested that if I wanted a faculty with Republicans I should have attended a university in the South. “If you like conservatism you can certainly attend the University of Texas and you can walk past the statue of Jefferson Davis everyday on your way to class,” he wrote in an e-mail. . . .

Another faculty member told him:

“You think you’re so [expletive] cute with your little column,” she told me. “I read your piece and all you want is attention. You’re just like Bill O’Reilly. You just want to get up on your [expletive] soapbox and have people look at you.” . . . .

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http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2009/07/two-out-of-111-university-of-oregon.html

As a side note:

Amy Bishop, Harvard Professor Arrested for Shooting Death of Three Others
February 13, 2010 04:47 AM EST

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