Posted on 01/03/2011 8:36:25 AM PST by Nachum
Just what we need — another new Obama appointee with a controversial past and radical inclinations.
Several weeks ago, the president announced his intention to make three appointments to the National Council on the Humanities. One of them is Cathy Davidson, an English professor at Duke University. Davidson’s curriculum vitae includes some very impressive-sounding credentials: past president of the American Studies Association (ASA), past editor of the American Literature journal, and vice-provost of Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke.
But one thing she probably won’t voluntarily mention at her confirmation hearing is that she was a member of Duke University’s “Group of 88.” These faculty members became known across the nation when they tried to exploit the infamous Duke lacrosse team scandal to make a political statement about race relations and white privilege.
In that incident, three lacrosse team members were accused of rape by a stripper hired to dance at a party. Her allegations seemed questionable from the start and were eventually proven false, but not before the team’s season was canceled, the coach was fired, and the three accused players left school in a cloud of suspicion.
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What is a “National Council on the Humanities”?
If American tax dollars are being pissed away on something called “National Council on the Humanities” then we demand that it be closed NOW!
Racist intellectuals rushing to judgement...
http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/2006/11/group-of-88s-three-d-response.html
Ping.
Intellectuals sanction Homosexuality, Communism, Socialism, racism against whites, Illegal immigration,and children running wild.
I am stupid and happy about it. I don’t sanction any of those things.
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