Comments on: A More Perfect Union

By: JD

JD — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:03:11 +0000

Eric – I liked the scene where they threw raw hamburger on the vegetarian cause-heads.

By: Eric Blair

Eric Blair — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:59:26 +0000

One Hispanic professor said, and I am not making this up, that the person I knew didn’t “…pass the brown paper bag test…”

By: Eric Blair

Eric Blair — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:58:23 +0000

Where I used to teach, there was a special program for short contract professors, just finishing their postdocs. It was reserved for “underrepresented groups.”

A person I knew got the job. She was Cuban. Her father had fled Castro, and built a great life for his family.

The person I knew was given a terrible time because, and I am not making this up, she wasn’t “dark enough.”

By: Eric Blair

Eric Blair — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:56:32 +0000

JD, I taught at PCU. Sheesh.

By: JD

JD — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:55:18 +0000

Eric – You just described the “Cause-heads” on PCU.

By: daleyrocks

daleyrocks — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:49:47 +0000

Eric – Bring on some Jesuits to debate with them. The issue doesn’t matter.

By: daleyrocks

daleyrocks — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:47:04 +0000

John – ‘Cause you know we were gonna hold off as long as we could lettin’ them darkies and wimmins vote.

By: Eric Blair

Eric Blair — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:45:39 +0000

I was amused at the person who tried to fence with you, DRJ. I mean, given the definition of the term “tyro.”

I liked you quoting Frederick Douglass. I find that many of the students (and professors!) on my campus most concerned with diversity issues have never read Douglass. Heck, I doubt they could tell me in what decade the Civil War was fought, let alone why it began.

Many years ago, I was chatting with the president of my then-college, an African American of the Old School (that is, he had taken courses in rhetoric and sounded like James Earl Jones). He brought up the multiculturalists on campus, and the way that they were not interested in working constructively so much as protesting things and cursing (or so it seemed at the time).

Some people, he told me, would rather have a cause than an effect.

Then he offered me a cigar, and laughed when I looked shocked. A funny, great man.

By: daleyrocks

daleyrocks — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:45:24 +0000

John – I might be confuzzled on it. I thought it was so the South wouldn’t overwhelm the North in representation in Congress.

By: John Hitchcock

John Hitchcock — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:42:18 +0000

Wait a minute, Daley. You’re suggesting that those anti-slave conservative northerners were racist in not giving “full humanhood” to those southern slaves and only conceded to a 3/5 humanhood to appease the non-racist slave-holding liberal southerners. I think you defeated… umm, something.