Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Racial Hectoring

Here's a twist. White students, offended by a lecture given by the secretary of state for New Jersey, an African American woman, walked out of school and refused to go to classes. Evidently, the speaker, Ms Regina Thomas, accused students in ungentle accents of being ignorant of black history and being racists. The students refused to take the insults meekly and walked out of school, essentially shutting the place down for the day.

Imagine that. White kids finally getting tired of abasing themselves whenever some minority spokesperson takes it upon herself to lecture them about what evil racists they are and how guilty they should feel about it.

If more audiences would just get up and walk out when race hustlers like Ms Thomas take the stage maybe there'd be a lot less racial hectoring and consequently a lot less white hostility and a lot more racial comity. No one likes being insulted because of their race, after all. Surely Ms Thomas should understand that.

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