A Not So Merry Christmas

[flowomo]

from Inside Higher Ed:

(snip) So much for the season of togetherness and good cheer.

A racially charged Christmas carol published by a conservative student publication at Tufts University has drawn the ire of activists and student government officials there. The carol, titled “O Come all Ye Black Folk,” a play on “O Come all Ye Faithful,” ran in The Primary Source, a journal of conservative thought.

During the regularly scheduled student government meeting on Sunday, the Source’s editor, Alison Hoover, apologized for the song, which has been removed from the publication’s Web site. In its place, Hoover published an apology, which said, “t is not the opinion of The Primary Source that there are no qualified black students at Tufts University or that any of the other generalizations in the song are true.”

In a copy obtained by Inside Higher Ed, passages of the song read, “O Jesus! We need you to fill our racial quotas. Descendants of Africa, with brown skin arriving.” A line from the chorus consistently references “52 black freshmen,” which is the number of black students who matriculated this year to Tufts. (snip)

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http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/12/12/tufts

[BlueJazz]

1. I love how one of the Students responded.. >>

"I think the African-American students at Tufts should band together and write a carol about all the legacies and children of rich (and primarily white) parents — students with little intelligence or substance, but who had the advantages of the best schools, SAT test prep activities, and rich parents. The carol could mock how they got in despite their lack of merit, intelligence, or scholastic aptitude. Now *that* would be funny!"

How True!

[riverwalker]

2. pathetic

The editor, Alison Hoover is "a sophomore majoring in political science". Another flower of republican womanhood. Someday we will see her with a purple band-aid on her chin mocking wounded war veterans.

[Bigmack]

3. They can't help it...

They've got the Republican Gene.

I'm convinced evolution has developed a gene for "don't give a shit about anybody but myself". It may be a good survival strategy for the species, but it makes the Repub gene harmful to any sense of society or group goals. They feel anybody not like them is somehow not fully human.

Like other people with a major defect in their genes, we shouldn't hate them or push them out of our society, but we certainly shouldn't put them in any position of responsibility, either.

[Solly Mack]

4. and don't they just feel all good about themselves now

having to attack others to gain a momentary sense of false superiority

[Tyo]

5. The racism is one thing

That's just the way so many of these people are and I don't think that most of them are ever going to change. They've always been around, we are stuck with them and we just have to try to neutralize their evil as best we can.

But the unadulterated stupidity of advertising your racism amazes me. Especially at a university. There has got to be some sort of correlation between being a racist and having a less than stellar IQ. Has anyone done a study on this?