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This is one of thousands of ersatz apologies from college flunkies around the nation, kowtowing to a mindless, fact-free "movement" that was energized by the recent death of one George Floyd, a death which no tangible evidence indicates had anything to do with his race. Floyd was a career ne'er-do-well and petty criminal, caught in the act of passing counterfeit money, being high on illegal substances and refusing DOZENS OF TIMES to accede to the reasonable requests of the arresting officers to get in the [fucking] squad car. Had he done so, he would be alive today. But I digress...
As for the college statement and declaration, there is a PROBLEM with it.
The PROBLEM is that...there is no recent history of racism at Brown. Far from it. Brown, like virtually every other college in the Land has for DECADES discriminated IN FAVOR of Blacks and other "minorities" and "persons of color." Discrimination against Blacks on college campuses hasn't occurred since Stokely Carmichael was railing about it in the 60's. And there was damn little of it even at that time.
For at least the past 40 years, Brown has accepted Black students with sub-par credentials, hired Black teachers with middling resumes, promoted Blacks to professorships with less-than-sterling scholarship, and appointed Black Administrators based onf no particular merit on their part. This has been the norm for as long as any of their students have been alive.
So to say now that, in effect, "We" acknowledge our current racism and promise to do better is almost unimaginable. Will they require even a HS diploma for Blacks to get into Brown (or pick your other favored institution)? How could they? Will they promote their janitors to faculty positions? How can they grovel even more than they are already grovelling?
But you know that they will do it. By writing these apology letters, the Academics demonstrate to THE WORLD that they have abandoned all reference to facts and/or logical thought. They confess to racism that not only does not exist on campus, it is the OPPOSITE of what occurs on most campuses every freakin' day!
Pity the white students who strive for the four-point-something QPA's, study for the SAT's, strive to add things to their personal background that will make them look more attractive to the Admission committees, only to learn that a fourth of the Freshman class has been chosen purely on the basis of the color of their skin - which is to say, anything but white or yellow. And what about the white students who DO get in, being forced to endure four years of Leftist indoctrination, trying to convince them that they are EVIL because some unrelated people many scores of years ago once owned SLAVES, the the descendants of those slaves are taking up space in their classrooms.
It is fucked up. How could anyone send their kids to such an institution? And pay dearly for the privilege?