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I am purposely avoiding any public declaration of innocence or guilt of the members of the lacrosse team because it would be irresponsible for someone in my line of work to say anything in either direction at such a preliminary phase of the legal process. However, I can’t let this line pass without saying something. From the above link,
Yet when the nation’s most respected and widely consumed media are showing Duke students opening professing our status as a “white supremacist” university, suspicion of the protesters is entirely warranted.
Ummm, why’s that?
Without question, I’d say that Duke is a white supremacist institution. It’s hard to imagine such a concentration of rich white people–or rich any people, really–without there being a palpable air of white supremacy. But Duke shouldn’t feel too singled out. I feel the same way about the University of North Carolina, a school that I attended and that also has slave owners and Klan supporters’ names on different buildings on campus. And I’d say that many black colleges suffer from white supremacy, with their curricula frequently more about teaching black people how to do things instead of cultivating their students’ ability to think and create new scholarship.
White supremacy is everywhere, folks, lurking deeper than most people are willing to look. It’s in white people, it’s in black people, it’s in everybody. It’s so insidious and it is an unavoidable characteristic of American life.
And Duke is not immune.
So yes Dukies, I think your school is steeped in white supremacy. But then again, so has been the case with every school I’ve attended, including Clark.
Don’t take that so personally. Just do something to fix it.
And Clark. And Carolina. And the Claremont Colleges. And every other school that I have not attended.
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