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Professor mocks Columbus Day with list of ‘15 most overrated White people’
Campus Reform ^

Posted on 10/08/2012 6:17:20 PM PDT by oliverdarcy

A prominent Ivy-League professor denounced Columbus Day and mocked those who celebrate it by releasing a list of individuals he deems are the “15 most overrated white people” on Monday.

Marc Lamont Hill, Associate Professor of English Education at Columbia University, wrote that the holiday is one of America’s “most bizarre cultural rituals” and that he finds it perplexing people “continue to praise the vicious conquistador as a hero.”

“To honor the true spirit of Columbus Day, I have created my own list of overrated white people,” he wrote in his article published on the Huffington Post.

The list includes Elvis Presley, Ronald Reagan, Babe Ruth, William Shakespeare, Tim Tebow, among others.

“Elvis didn't write his own songs (despite taking credit for them), barely played the guitar, and was a worse actor than the entire cast of Belly,” wrote Hill.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: academia; columbusday; godsgravesglyphs; leftismoncampus; marclamonthill
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1 posted on 10/08/2012 6:17:29 PM PDT by oliverdarcy
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Can I make an overrated black people list I have someone in my already


2 posted on 10/08/2012 6:19:44 PM PDT by funfan
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To: oliverdarcy

Doesn’t Fox pay this loser?


3 posted on 10/08/2012 6:19:49 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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Isn’t Hill that cross-eyed idiot that Hannity is always blabbing away with? It’s pretty obvious he has a problem with “white” people.


4 posted on 10/08/2012 6:20:00 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Sorry Algore. It was attitude, NOT altitude.)
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To: oliverdarcy

Is this that gay guy that’s on Fox now and then?


5 posted on 10/08/2012 6:20:00 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: oliverdarcy

Can I make an overrated black people list I have someone in mind already


6 posted on 10/08/2012 6:20:10 PM PDT by funfan
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So who are the 15 most overrated black people then?


7 posted on 10/08/2012 6:20:13 PM PDT by MNDude (OWS Movement RIP)
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To: oliverdarcy
A prominent Ivy-League professor

LOL

It appears somebody needed 15 minutes of fame.

8 posted on 10/08/2012 6:20:56 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1)
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Whoever brings up race first is the racist.


9 posted on 10/08/2012 6:21:27 PM PDT by bicyclerepair ( REPLACE D-W-S ! http://www.karenforcongress.com)
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To: Mamzelle

I think he’s on O’Reilly.

This is just disgusting.


10 posted on 10/08/2012 6:21:50 PM PDT by Aria ( 2008 wasn't an election - it was a coup d'etat.)
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To: oliverdarcy
he finds it perplexing people “continue to praise the vicious conquistador as a hero.”

Yeah, why praise the successful?

The left loves them some victims.

The more beaten, the more heroic.

11 posted on 10/08/2012 6:22:13 PM PDT by dead (It ain't over until the phone lady sings.)
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Shakespeare? This joker teaches English at a prestigious university. Affirmative action cultural suicide in action.


12 posted on 10/08/2012 6:22:46 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: MNDude

Donovan McNabb comes to mind...


13 posted on 10/08/2012 6:23:09 PM PDT by rfp1234
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To: oliverdarcy

Most annoying academics are highly over rated, over paid and over here. Send them to some backwater hell-hole where they can luxuriate in the cultural splendor free from the poison of Americanism, Christianity and Western ideals.


14 posted on 10/08/2012 6:23:20 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth
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To: MNDude

They are all tied for #1.


15 posted on 10/08/2012 6:23:38 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: funfan

Was thinking of a list of overrated liberal college teachers, but that would be an unnecessary waste of paper.


16 posted on 10/08/2012 6:24:11 PM PDT by jughandle
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To: funfan

Marc Lamont Hill probably wouldn’t be thought of on such a list. He’s irrevelant


17 posted on 10/08/2012 6:25:32 PM PDT by duffee (Romney 2012, NEWT 2016)
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To: oliverdarcy; All

Marc Lamont Hill: Black Ku Klan Klan Racist

Can you imagine the whining this Black Racist would do if someone published: 15 Over-rated Black People?

MSNBC is nothing more than Black KKK TV


18 posted on 10/08/2012 6:25:47 PM PDT by SeminoleCounty (Political maturity is realizing that the "R" next to someone's name does not mean "conservative")
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To: oliverdarcy

Columbus was a conquistador? Thankfully, this professor of “English Education” is not a member of Columbia’s History Department.


19 posted on 10/08/2012 6:27:04 PM PDT by p. henry
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So who are the 15 most overrated black people then?”

How many are rated?


20 posted on 10/08/2012 6:27:44 PM PDT by jessduntno ("Socialism only works...in Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they have it." - RR)
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