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Who is the Fresno State professor who called Barbara Bush an 'amazing racist'?
Fresno Bee ^ | April 18, 2018 | by Jody Murray

Posted on 04/18/2018 11:38:08 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The Fresno State English professor who lashed out at the late Barbara Bush, calling the former first lady an "amazing racist," has made a mark as an author writing about her personal life and Arab-American heritage.

Randa Jarrar was born in Chicago in 1978, according to her Wiki page, to an Egyptian-Greek mother and Palestinian father. She grew up in Kuwait and Egypt, then returned with her family to the U.S. in 1991 after the Persian Gulf War.

According to Fresno State officials, Jarrar has been on leave this semester from the university, where her instruction includes creative writing.

"Many of my undergraduates are brown: Latinos, Asian Americans, Muslim Americans," Jarrar said in a 2014 interview with the Institute for Middle East Understanding.

Her books include "A Map of Home," a collection of stories about lives of Arab women, and "Him, Me, Muhammad Ali," described on her website as "a collection ... featuring journalists and kids and queers and pregnant girls and birds who are arrested for spying." Jarrar won the 2014 Lannan Residency Program fellowship award.

In an undated interview with the Arab literature project Beirut39, Jarrar said: "'A Map of Home' is the fictionalization of mostly my grappling with my loyalty to my parents and culture.

"If I wrote it another way, it would have been about my sexuality. If I wrote it another way, it would have been about my parents’ eating disorders and how they forced them on me for years. ... I chose to limit my perspective and focus on the voice. Everything else followed from there."

(Excerpt) Read more at fresnobee.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: barbarabush; bush41; california; fresno; fresnostate; georgehwbush; josephcastro; progressive; radical; randajarrar; university
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"A 2012 essay for Guernica described a trip to Israel in which she said she was detained, taken by airport authorities to "the Arab room," and denied entry."

All I need to know about her.

21 posted on 04/18/2018 12:22:09 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Nailed it!


22 posted on 04/18/2018 12:27:23 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It is not being fired for its racial hate.


23 posted on 04/18/2018 12:29:03 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Leftism is an elaborate system for hiding shame behind a cheap mash of virtue. -Klavan.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
After seeing a different picture of her I understand why just a head shot. Think Roz from Monsters Inc after a 4 day bender at Golden Corral. The university doesn't need to fire her, soon she'll be one of those folks that has to call the fire department to get out her house.

I bet she is already planning in being the keynote speaker at the 2020 dim convention, right after that fascist Hogg.

Some pics of it on Rush's website: https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2018/04/18/demented-liberal-professor-celebrates-death-barbara-bush/

24 posted on 04/18/2018 12:40:17 PM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the 0zarks)
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To: fungoking; Oldeconomybuyer

Wow. Her outside is every bit as ugly as her inside.


25 posted on 04/18/2018 12:52:24 PM PDT by texas_mrs
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Jarrar clan
Wikipedia
"Jarrar (Arabic:) is a large Palestinian clan that served as rural landlords and tax-collectors (mutasallims) in the Jenin area during Ottoman rule in Palestine. During this era, they were the most powerful of the rural clans in Palestine’s central highlands.[1]..."

"Modern descendants..."
"Randa Jarrar, Palestinian-American novelist"


We’re Going To Need a Bigger Porn Star"
MOTUS A.D. ^ | 4-18-18 | MOTUS
Posted on 04/18/2018 7:23:20 AM PDT by NOBO2012
"Future historians will look back on the early 21st century and tag the development of the Twitter platform as the final nail in the coffin of civilized speech. It turns out that enabling people to empty their mind at the same speed with which they can empty their digestive tract produces essentially the same product.

Submitted as evidence, tweets from Randa Jarrar, Trigglypuff Palestinian/American Professor - currently employed by the English department at Fresno State - commenting on the death of Barbara Bush:"



26 posted on 04/18/2018 1:00:25 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Who is the Fresno State professor

Who really cares?

27 posted on 04/18/2018 1:13:19 PM PDT by MosesKnows (Love Many, Trust Few, and Always Paddle Your Own Canoe)
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To: fungoking

Went to Limbaugh site. Saw photos. Want my lunch back, please.


28 posted on 04/18/2018 1:16:10 PM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

He was never that ugly inside or out. Did he have bug out eyes too?


29 posted on 04/18/2018 1:40:47 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Mastador1
The reason the burka was developed in the middle east is apparent with this one
30 posted on 04/18/2018 1:53:54 PM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: fungoking; texas_mrs; urbanpovertylawcenter
"I bet she is already planning in being the keynote speaker at the 2020 dim convention, right after that fascist Hogg."
They're going to need a bigger podium ...

;-)

31 posted on 04/19/2018 1:47:12 PM PDT by Tunehead54
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