Author: DennisDennis Date: Jul 8, 2008 06:45
ANGERING COMMENTARY FROM WSJ
HEAD: American Politics Aren't 'Post-Racial'
The not-quite-concluded racial drama playing out at Indiana
University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI) in the last months
can't be ranked with the embittering rape charge scandal at Duke that so
recently mesmerized the nation. And as news it's not in the same league as
the total war waged against Harvard president Lawrence Summers for having
had the temerity to suggest that factors in addition to prejudice might have
something to do with the underrepresentation of women in math and the
sciences.
Still, what happened at IUPUI is a pungent reminder of all that's possible
now in the rarefied ideological atmosphere on our college campuses - and in
this presidential election year, not perhaps only on our campuses.
The story began prosaically enough. Keith Sampson, a student employee on the
janitorial staff earning his way toward a degree, was in the habit of
reading during work breaks. Last October he was immersed in "Notre Dame Vs.
the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan."
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