Much as I hate to credit a rival page, the Daily News' Stanley Crouch today has the best commentary so far on the recent (and unfolding) hate crimes craze at Columbia University. His take: take it easy.
If you haven't heard of the noose found last week on a black professor's door at Columbia, the article might explain why I've been getting some serious deja-vu recently. Not that I'm alleging, as Crouch hints, that anything Kerri-Dunnesque is going on here, but the "I'm being silenced" rhetoric and endless discussion groups naturally bring back strong memories for me.
And then there's this passage (Claremont historians, take note!):
"The reason I am skeptical of the Columbia incident is that when I taught at the Claremont Colleges from 1968 to 1975, it was not unusual for some black students to send racist mail to themselves to manipulate the administration when negotiations about campus racial policies were at a tipping point."
Well. The more things change...
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*cringe* Yeah... I'll admit I've been having several of the same thoughts - the arrival of a noose so soon after the significant coverage of the Jena controversy is just too pat for me. Thanks for the link.
John - I love the blog. Keep writing and I will keep reading. Good luck at the Post.
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