November 30, 2015
Does Any of This Campus Turmoil Have to Do with Race?
Allow me to generalize: no. The answer is no.
No, Yale is not a hotbed of racism. Neither is Dartmouth. Neither is Columbia. Neither is Princeton. No reasonable person of color on any of these campuses really believes that he suffers interminable racial discrimination sanctioned by such institutions. The best inducement to cathartic rage the Ivy Leaguers can find is strips of black electric tape on some old portraits (unclear whether it's a hoax) or the last name of one of the more progressive Democrats in history.
You know you're desperate when your slogan is "We Will Not Surrender to Six Strips of Black Tape" or "Woodrow Wilson Was a Racist!" When you're fighting adhesives or people who died ninety years ago, you will quickly learn: to agree to fight such a battle is to lose it by default. By this I do not justify vandalism or voting for Democrats, neither of which I do.
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