Race Cowards? In Academia, Certainly

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By Walter E. Williams

http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=6627 Eric Holder said the U.S. is “a nation of cowards” when it comes to race relations. In one sense, he is absolutely right.

Many whites, from university administrators and professors, to schoolteachers, to employers and public officials, accept behavior from black people that they wouldn’t begin to accept from whites.

For example, some of the nation’s most elite universities, such as Stanford and the University of California, have yielded to black student demands for separate graduation ceremonies and separate “celebratory events.”

Universities such as Stanford, Cornell, MIT and Cal Berkeley have, or have had, segregated dorms.

If white students demanded whites-only graduation ceremonies or whites-only dorms, administrators would have labeled their demands as intolerable racism. When black students demand the same thing, these administrators cowardly capitulate.Calling these university administrators cowards is the most flattering characterization of their behavior. They might actually be stupid enough to believe nonsense taught by some of their sociology and psychology professors that blacks can’t be racists because they don’t have power. What about Holder’s statement that America is “voluntarily segregated”? I say so what.

According to the census, in 2007 4.6% of married blacks had a white spouse; less than 1% of married whites were married to a black.

While blacks are 13% of the population, they are 80% of professional basketball players and 65% of pro football players. Mere casual observance of audiences at ice hockey games or opera performances would reveal gross voluntary segregation.

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2009-02-25