Discussion: White Duke Prof: Black People Have 'Strange' Names To Avoid 'Integration'

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Except Fred (Herman Munster) Gwynne was an endearing character.
Not-so-much with Prof. Jerry (Stubborn Racist) Hough.

jw1

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The amount of Asian-white dating is enormous and so surely will be the intermarriage. Black-white dating is almost non-existent because of the ostracism by blacks of anyone who dates a white."

These statements don’t seem correct. When I look around I find examples more in line with what I see:

men
– non-black men applied a penalty to black women
– while black men showed little racial preference either way

women
– all women preferred men of their own race
– but they otherwise penalized both Asian and black men

More dating research from OK Cupid http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/race-attraction-2009-2014/

This hammering home of the Asian achiever meme in the professor’s editorial makes me thinks we’ve got another Bell Curve fan running amuk.

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I’m no college professor, but maybe this guy shouldn’t be either if he thinks ‘integration’ = assimilation.

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An endowed professor who does not even know the difference between “truth” and “opinion”. That is a superb proxy for “ignorance”. And it is the classic right wing mantra straight from Rush, Hannity, Coulter, Cruz, Palin, global warming deniers, and so on.

And what a horrific reflection on Duke University.

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Please, continue “WhiteSplaning” it to us.
How about MEXICANS? Do they have “strange names” too? Like “Jesus” or “Manuel”?
How about CHINESE (like your Grad Students?) I didn’t know “Wu” and “Wen” were “'murican” names.
Or those dirty commies (i.e. Russkies)
Or those damn IRISH (oh wait, they are at least nominally WHITE.)

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“The issue is whether my comments were largely accurate,” Hough told WTVD. “In writing me, no one has said I was wrong, just racist. The question is whether I was right or what the nuanced story is since anything in a paragraph is too simple.”

Dear Prof. Hough:

You’re wrong. And racist. Your comments are not largely accurate.

Sincerely,

The Sane Universe

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White racist says racist things. Paging Chief Justice Roberts to the Post-Racial Courtesy Phone.

Look at a census sheet from say, 1870 and read the white names there. Ooofa.

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“Anyone who says anything is [called] a racist and ignorant,” Jerry Hough said. “I am 80 and figure I can speak the truth as I see it. Ignorant I am not.”

Well, you’re 80 and now you’ll mainly be remembered as that crazy guy yelling at the “colored” kids to get off your lawn.

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In related news, the name of the University will be changed from Duke to David Duke

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Depends.
Which American century are you referencing?

jw1

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Tomorrow’s Headlines Today:

> White Duke Uncle Duke Chair Prof With ‘Strange’ Look To Avoid ‘Communicating’ Til This Blows Over, Hopefully, Or Forced To Take Up Fox Pundit Job On Race Relations

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One reason Chinese children often have traditional European names, is because their Asian names are too hard for non-native speakers to pronounce. This was true of my Chinese boyfriend and his siblings. They also had native given names, which they used within their family when they spoke Chinese to each other. Many people from the Indian subcontinent do use native names (in contrast to Chinese and Vietnamese immigrants), I assume at least partly because they can be pronounced by English speakers. Ditto with Iranians and Arab speakers.

But obviously, this is all just a personal preference and I expect that it might well change generationally as Asians try to preserve their heritage, or not.

Certainly, in my office, there are many “non-traditional” (i.e., non-European) given names among employees with Asian heritage. There are also many African-American employees with very traditional names. And a few non-traditional as well. It’s really mixed. I only say this because a thoughtful examination of the issue of “naming” would show how much nuance there is.

I went to Duke. He is representative of a certain stripe of thinking among both professors and students. Don’t let anyone tell you he is solely an outlier, although, I don’t think he or people like him constitute anything like a majority. They do, however, have disproportionate influence.

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And don’t forget Megyn!

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Will he join the Piyush (Bobby) Jindal presidential exploratory committee?

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Ignorant I am not.

I beg to differ, for the obvious reasons stated by so many others on this thread. But, I’ll say this, with a high level of certainty…

“Retired” you soon will be.

Even in your Endowed Chair, in your ivory tower of Babel…

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Pasty old white guys say the darndest things!

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double facepalm

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He looks nice…

…like one of those old Nazis that escaped to the Americas and assumed a new identity.

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Herr Professor Dumm Hough.

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Revive the tenure debate!!!

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