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OU apologizes over professor's reading from historical document that uses 'N-word'
https://www.tulsaworld.com ^ | Feb 24, 2020 | The Oklahoman

Posted on 02/25/2020 8:09:53 AM PST by BackRoads775

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To: BackRoads775

It’s a good thing he didn’t read the lyrics to any number of current Rap “songs”...


21 posted on 02/25/2020 8:24:24 AM PST by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: BackRoads775

The word is ‘nigger’ and I refuse to be censored from using the word. But when black people stop using it in casual conversation then so will I.


22 posted on 02/25/2020 8:26:10 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: BackRoads775

Snowflakes


23 posted on 02/25/2020 8:26:39 AM PST by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.ag)
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To: FairfaxVA
Dad couldn't find crackers in a grocery store in Beaufort. Everyone he asked would walk off in a huff.

Then he smartened up and asked where he could find saltines...

24 posted on 02/25/2020 8:26:49 AM PST by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: BackRoads775

Any college that feels it necessary to issue “trigger warnings” has exposed itself as one that has lowered its standards to such an extent that virtually anyone - to specifically include those who have difficulty reading and understand Dick and Jane books - can enter.

Avoid them at all costs.

Currently, STEM is safe, but the climate change clowns are constantly chipping at the walls.


25 posted on 02/25/2020 8:30:35 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: BackRoads775

What was the historical document? A Senate floor speech by Robert Byrd?


26 posted on 02/25/2020 8:30:38 AM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: BackRoads775

There is no way to avoid being called racist if you’re White. If you say the word, or don’t say it, you’re still called racist. Your very existence is called racist.


27 posted on 02/25/2020 8:32:33 AM PST by I want the USA back (We have sunk to a depth where restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men:Orwell)
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To: bk1000

“To imagine there is a word that simply cannot be said boggles the mind.”

Voldemort, Voldemort, Voldemort!!

But, Hogwarts was still WAY more advanced than most of our so-called institutions of higher learning.


28 posted on 02/25/2020 8:32:44 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: rktman
Well except for certain demographic where it’s commonly used.

Disagree. If they use the word they must be expelled immediately! They know how hurtful it is when they hear that word so they know how hurtful it is to use that word. No mercy should be shown as it is doubly bad for the victim to deliberately use that word.

Yes, it would wreck sports teams and entire studies departments by eliminating their students but if it saves just one student from being offended isn't it worth it?

29 posted on 02/25/2020 8:34:42 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: BackRoads775

What’s the problem? The teacher prepared them for the use of the ‘n’ word. University students ought to understand that culture changes and slavery is no longer allowed - since 1865, as a matter of fact/history. Discrimination against anyone who has a black slave as an ancestor is also not allowed, nor are racial epithets acceptable behavior.

Failure to teach our younger generation these facts is abusive to their mental and intellectual growth, in my opinion.


30 posted on 02/25/2020 8:34:45 AM PST by Gumdrop
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To: BackRoads775
Interim OU President Joseph Harroz.....

Will soon be Previous OU President Joseph Harroz....

31 posted on 02/25/2020 8:35:34 AM PST by capydick (“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.)
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To: null and void

Well played by your Dad. My wife and I refer to the items by their brand names (Triscuits, Wheat Thins, etc). I know it seems trivial, but if everyone is to be equal, why are some more equal than others? Rhetorical question...

If anyone really wants their blood pressure to spike, watch a three part you tube video series about Bret Weinstien at Evergreen College. Just unbelievable.


32 posted on 02/25/2020 8:36:30 AM PST by FairfaxVA (SELECT * FROM liberals WHERE clue > 0. Zero rows returned!)
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To: BackRoads775

It’s Oklahoma University. A pro football team with a four year community college on the same block. This is the stoogeville that had a “professor” wandering thru parking lots and keying any cars that had bumper stickers she didn’t like.


33 posted on 02/25/2020 8:37:07 AM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: ConservaTexan
If we had the technology to replace that word with clanging church bells people didn't get so butthurt every time they are uttered the world would be a better place.

I think this is what you really meant to say.

34 posted on 02/25/2020 8:37:13 AM PST by Ratman0823 ("Worry less about who you might offend and care more about who you might inspire" - Mike Baxter)
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To: BackRoads775

Is the playing of rap music outlawed on campus?


35 posted on 02/25/2020 8:37:28 AM PST by samtheman (FReepers all do want Bernie to get the dem nomination, right? (Just to be clear))
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To: FairfaxVA

Opps, forgot the link

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FH2WeWgcSMk


36 posted on 02/25/2020 8:39:05 AM PST by FairfaxVA (SELECT * FROM liberals WHERE clue > 0. Zero rows returned!)
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To: Beowulf9

https://www.songlyrics.com/hip-hop-rap-lyrics.php

It’s no wonder they are so F-ed up, listening that crap all day.


37 posted on 02/25/2020 8:39:44 AM PST by Beagle8U (Did Eric Ciaramella kill Epstein? He didn't kill himself.)
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To: samtheman

No, rap music is Freedom of Speech ya know.


38 posted on 02/25/2020 8:40:30 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: BackRoads775
Be not a niggard of your speech. How goes ’t?

Shakespeare. Macbeth. Scene 4 Act 3

39 posted on 02/25/2020 8:43:34 AM PST by PGR88
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To: MeganC
But when black people stop using it in casual conversation then so will I.

If only the professor had shown up in blackface for this reading.

40 posted on 02/25/2020 8:44:00 AM PST by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word. Goy to the World!)
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