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“That’s not who I am,” the lecturer will soon add. Tearfully, at a press conference with black people to prove it.
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I’m in academia, and I guess I should be way past being shocked when academics act this way, but I’m still embarrassed. I’m impressed by the uber driver’s calm in the face of such provocation and actual assault. Don’t know much about Kennesaw State, but hope there are some consequences for this behavior on the part of their employee.
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From the headline, I was expecting a story about a professor berating a student who was also an Uber driver in class, with the analogy that driving for them was like slavery. Bad headline and silly story.
Perhaps we should ask the Supreme Court, who ruled that we’re now post-racial, if this event actually occurred.
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KSU is a suburban commuter campus. It’s a solid state university for the right student.
In Jack Daniels veritas.
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Blame John Roberts for the fact that it got published.
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Bad headline, sure, I agree. Silly story? Eh?
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It’s some drunken dingbat spewing racist gibberish on a bender. It barely deserves mention on the inside pages of the Kennesaw Times, let alone a national political site.
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So am I on both counts. Emotional maturity and academic proficiency do not necessarily go in hand.
Having been a musician in clubs for over 46 years, let me say that, as a practitioner of a skill utlilized in places in which people can get out of hand, one looks for certain inhibitors of that behavior. People who have little to lose by violence come to mind. You tread lightly, there.
But on the other end of the spectrum are those who have A LOT to lose by inappropriate behavior. Like an academic position.
Those folks learn to lawyer-up and apologize.
Fast.
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Kennesaw State? Well, let’s just say Newt Gingrich taught there.
¨In the 1990s, Gingrich taught “Renewing American Civilization” at Kennesaw State College in Georgia. The course became infamous because it was at the heart of a congressional ethics investigation that led to severe penalties for the disgraced former Speaker.¨
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Dear white people, times have changed, you know things such as cell phones and the like. Chill the fuck out.
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Bull.
In a culture that keeps telling us that racism is over, that black people are always just “playing the race card,” the most popular “news” media organization loses no opportunity to tell us that these things are NOT happening, and major political figures run on that fiction - these anecdotes go to prove that we have a culture that IS problematic.
One story here and there is an anecdote - but string together enough of these “anecdotes” without dismissing them out-of-hand as “oh, it was one drunk…” “oh, it was a harmless fraternity prank,” “oh, it was one bad cop…” and you start to see a picture of a pervasive aspect of our culture.
Same as the “Responsible Gun Owner” posts. Individually, anecdotes about accidents that are easily ignored. Collectively, they reveal a dangerous cultural problem that kills tens of thousands of Americans each year.
Same goes with the rape stories. The sexual harassment stories. The stories of non-Christians being targeted.
STOP making excuses. Stop trying to pretend none of it matters.
YOU may not want to hear it, YOU may not want to notice.
But we are noticing.
And we’re also notiicing those of you who want us to stop noticing.
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Oh please. “The culture” doesn’t tell us that racism is over, Republican bigots who want to pretend the 1950s were a happy paradise for everyone do. Anyone with half a brain, particularly readers of this site, knows it’s a load of shit. If TPM reported on every incident of a random shithead saying something racist, there would be room for nothing else except vapid columns from hipsters about how everything you like sucks.
Gotta love how certain people can punch people in the face and not be arrested on the spot or shortly thereafter and others can be pursued quite diligently as if they were on a most wanted list.
It’s almost like there are two criminal justice systems for different types of people. Weird.
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Kennesaw. Where Newt Gingrich was a professor.
In fairness to the area, it’s not that bad. I never had any race based issues living around there except cops stopping me with no excuse a few times. Pols run scams everywhere.
Nearby (Cobb County - not sure if Kennesaw is Cobb, I believe it is), police and the local DA initiated a popular case where a Black woman was arrested and prosecuted for sending her child to school in an area where her father lived instead of a lower income area in Atlanta where she had an apartment.
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The most outrageous part of this story? This:
Chiddi Stober, who is also a history teacher in Rockdale County (Ga.)…
A history teacher working Uber in order to make ends meet? Try finding that anywhere else in the First World.
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That truly is sad. Working for Uber is like only slightly better than being unemployed or homeless.