Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Scratch one university, Rutgers

Dis inviting Condolezza Rice as a graduation speaker shows a university locked in the grip of crazies.  Condolezza Rice is an inspiring figure, a black woman, born into modest circumstances, who by pure ability rose to become US secretary of state, the third highest office in the land (after the President and the chairman of the federal reserve, and above the vice president).  This is an amazing story, any university student  should be inspired to emulate.   Graduation speeches tend to stick with you, I can still remember some lines from my own graduation speech and that was a long time ago.  I'm sure Condolezza Rice would have been memorable graduation speaker.  And Rutgers drove her away. 
   Ringleader in the anti-Rice crusade is Rutgers professor Deepa Kumar.  She "teaches" journalism and "media studies" what ever that might be.  She writes about Islamophobia, imperialism, anti muslim racism.  She appeared on Russia Today, a Russian government sponsored propaganda show bragging about her "victory" in driving Condolezza Rice off campus.  
   That Rutgers would have this kind of fruitcake on the faculty says a lot of things, all bad, about Rutgers.

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