Re: PC Police: A New Low
"Black studies" is a tendentious academic scam. As is, I suspect, "diversity studies." Most of us probably don't remember Sam Hayakawa, who as president of San Francisco State decades ago, had the question of a "black studies" major studied. He concluded that there was not enough material, of sufficient academic weight, to warrant a major. He did authorize a minor.
This set off the customary "days of rage," and led to one of the most sublime moments, ever. Some "black studies" advocates had set up a flatbed sound truck from which they were spewing the usual complaints about "racism." Hayakawa, hopped up on the truck and began to engage the young man with the mic. At one point, the guy said Hayakawa didn't know the meaning of racism because the "government" had never oppressed him. Hayakawa replied that the government had interned him and his family in a concentration camp and stolen their worldly possessions because of their race. And he wondered if that counted. It was that performance and many others, that led Sam to the Senate.
