If a leftist professor were to say this, it would be considered an astute and culturally sensitive political statement on the status of the black family after emancipation, etc...
There is nothing racist about what he said until the newspaper tries to tell us there is.
“If a leftist professor were to say this,”
You might get a kick out of this story:
Cliven Bundy and his wife decided to travel to Washington DC to try and find out why the federal government hated them so much.
Unfortunately no congressman could find the time to meet with them, so they went to the National Gallery to soak up some culture.
One painting had them completely confused. It showed three very black and totally naked men sitting on a park bench. Two of the figures had black penises, but the one in the middle had a pink pecker.
A museum docent noticed their consternation and offered her assessment. After a half hour or so of her lecturing, the Bundys understood that the painting represented the sexual emasculation of African Americans in a predominately white, patriarchal society.
“In fact,” she pointed out, “in a recent New York Times article an art critic stated his belief that the pink phallus also represents the cultural and sociological oppression experienced by gay men in contemporary society, as well as the callousness shown by their fellow Americans who, quite frankly, should know better.”
The Bundys weren’t quite sure what to think, although they were unhappy about being thought of as insensitive, although Cliven was quite callused.
Then a young man in a W. VA Mountaineers tee-shirt approached them and said, “Would you like to know what the painting is really about?”
Rancher Bundy said, “You’re dang straight we would! But how would you know better than that expert woman and the Nyoo Yark Times newspaper?”
“Because I’m the guy who painted it,” he replied.
“In fact, there are no African Americans depicted at all.
“They’re just three West Virginia coal miners. The guy in the middle went home for lunch.”