Moreover, as a law school professor, I have no doubt in my mind that she herself is seeing the declining quality of students ushered in on an Affirmative Action platform. They provide colorful scenery for a year or two, then drop out. I myself have taught undergraduate classes wherein the majority of black students (and a growing percentage of white students, to be fair) don't know whether to use there or their, to or too. And don't even ask about "whom". They are darn close to illiterate.
There are certainly ways to celebrate white culture without invoking racial supremacy, just reading Florence King's hilarious "WASP, where is thy sting?" and seeing her description of the cultural differences between varying kinds of white American protestants is incredibly revealing. Celebrations of Scottish, Irish, English, Germanic, French, Norwegian, etc heritage are another example. But we have to fight for our right to party, as the Beastie Boys once noted.
just reading Florence King's hilarious "WASP, where is thy sting?" and seeing her description of the cultural differences between varying kinds of white American protestants
WASP, Where is Thy Sting? is one of my all time favorite books! A pity it's out of print. As a multicultural person (1/2 WASP, 1/2 other European), I found it hilarious and, more to the point, remarkably insightful. Almost every one of her character sketch WASP personalities (and those in Southern Ladies and Gentlemen) resembled some current family member or ancestor! My arch-WASP Mother was in stitches and gave at least 20 copies to relatives and friends before it because unavailable. I've probably given half a dozen copies as gifts.
One of the most socially accurate and psychologically astute parts of WASP is her topology of Protestantism, from 'piscops and congregationalists (in New England) through Baptodistarians on down through Brother Boscomb of the Holier than Thou (Reformed) Church of WASP Crossroad, Mississippi. I grew up in Northern California, in a town originally settled by New Englanders, and the social hierarchy in town was strictly: congregational, episcopal, presbyterian, lutheran (normal), methodist, lutheran (missouri synod), baptist, southern baptist and other (e.g. JWs, pentacostals). The differences in mentality King described and the practices were so spot on!