Black College Students In Toronto Demanding Racist Graduation Ceremony
Tarek Fatah writes in the Toronto Sun:
On Monday, the Toronto Star reported that two African-Canadian students at the University of Toronto, Jessica Kirk and Nasma Ahmed, were organizing U of T's first-ever 'Black graduation ceremony', an event restricted to students of the right skin pigmentation.No graduates of Scottish, Chinese, Indian or dare I say English ancestry will be permitted. What next, 'No-White Days' at Canadian universities?
The news was greeted among liberal circles and the Left as if Toronto had just discovered not one, but two Rosa Parks. As if the two women were reincarnations from apartheid-like Birmingham, Alabama students of 1963.
Wrong. This is not a step forward.
In Lenin's words, it is 'One Step Forward, Two Steps Back.' Its political ignorance steeped in make-believe victimhood in a society that has made such shenanigans possible.
Today, as Professor Jordan Peterson of the University of Toronto explains, "The black community in the United States is the 18th wealthiest community -- the 18th wealthiest nation on the planet."
Both the NAACP and the Civil Rights Movement were open to Whites, Jews, and people of all colours. The U of T 'Blacks-only' graduation ceremony is an insult to Rosa Parks, Mandela, Dr King, Bobby Kennedy and Gandhi.
In fact, it is a vile attempt to divide us into races in a post-racist society. If the two organizers of the Blacks-only graduation do wish to make a point, then let them stand in solidarity with Black Darfuris today facing genocide at the hands of the Arab Janjaweed jihadi militias.
There's a problem with that: Activism for the black Darfuris wouldn't be about them -- that is, the black students calling for their own racially separate graduation.
It's my firm belief that many of these bizarre and racist demands for racial separatism on campus are really about 20-something children looking for attention...to be set aside as special, but without it being based on the academic achievement college honors typically and traditionally are.
I also suspect that this has something to do -- in some or many cases -- with racial preferencing in academic admissions.
When students of a certain color or colors are preferenced, they are admitted to colleges beyond their ability. While they might have done well at the college they would have gotten into without being promoted upward on a racial basis, they end up unprepared for the level of work and competition in the environment they never belonged in per intelligence and academic merit.
How do you get honors in this environment? You make the judging be exactly contrary to what Martin Luther King talked about -- which is to demand to be judged (and segregated from the pack) on the color of your skin instead of on the content of your character (and your academic achievement).
In high school I wasn't that good a student. I was careful to choose a school that would not lead to me flunking out. By partying too much I almost flunked out anyway. I quit for a year to get it together then went back and graduated with honors in STEM subjects. It does no one favors to admit minorities above their level. Much of that level is not due to inherent ability but due to broken homes and lousy schools. Just because you have a disadvantage does not mean there is racism actively holding you down.
The other thing is that whites have mostly gotten over racism. They are ok with living with blacks, working with them, even lots of dating and intermarriage--sure there is some lingering unease about affirmative action and reality-based alertness about gang-bangers, but those are reasonable concerns. Now that victory is largely in hand, activists want to let whites know that they are still hated, that all that effort was not enough (or basicly nothing). What kind of effect do you think this will have?
cc at June 21, 2017 8:56 AM
Anytime I see someone referred to as African-whatever, I want to ask that person to name the African country s/he is from, and tell us the capital of that country.
jefe at June 21, 2017 3:12 PM
With the election of Obama, the black community recognizes that their excuses have dried up. Black Lives Matter was never about civil rights. It was intended to distract us from the issues that are rampant in the black community. It's a classic DARVO move. According to FBI crime statistics, blacks are overrepresented in every crime in the country, except DUI. And over half of all murders and robberies are committed by black people.
Rather than address these issues, they point the finger at whites and say, "This is your fault!"
They simply don't want us looking too closely at their communities, seeing the lack of productivity, the dependency on government handouts and the rampant criminality. To say nothing of the fact that blacks kill over twice as many whites per year as whites kill blacks, and it's been that way for as long as the FBI has been keeping track of this information.
Blacks are not being targeted by the police.
Studies done by Roland G. Fryer, Jr. (economics professor at Harvard, and is black himself) and Peter Moskos (assistant professor in the criminal justice department at John Jay University), show that cops are more likely to kill whites than blacks. Moreover, white cops are the least likely to shoot a black suspect. Black and Hispanic cops are more likely to shoot a black suspect.
Patrick at June 21, 2017 3:17 PM
Opportunity.
Radwaste at June 21, 2017 4:17 PM
Darth linked this story in the playpen.
Classes were closed today, reopening tomorrow. The Google 'Wiki' sidebar:
Note that hyphenated President: She's black. We might presume she has politically liberal inclinations.
I can imagine this one blowing up REAL big. Maybe not, but I can't imagine all the kids in the faculty meetings getting along when one of them is unashamedly calling for the violent death of white people.
Crid at June 21, 2017 6:15 PM
Both the NAACP and the Civil Rights Movement were open to Whites, Jews, and people of all colours. The U of T 'Blacks-only' graduation ceremony is an insult to Rosa Parks, Mandela, Dr King, Bobby Kennedy and Gandhi.
Ummm, hate to break it to you, but Gandhi was a pedophile and SUPPORTED apartheid against blacks, he only objected to Indians being lumped in with Africans
lujlp at June 21, 2017 10:56 PM
Really, the response is obvious. Some of the white students need to stand up and demand "equal rights", i.e., a whites-only graduation ceremony.
Equal rights - treat every person as an individual. Skin color should be as relevant as hair color to your academic and professional career - i.e., not at all. No discrimination, but also no preferential treatment.
It's time to stop putting up with crap.
a_random_guy at June 22, 2017 2:48 AM
Gingers only graduation? Blond walk of beauty?
Ben at June 22, 2017 6:08 AM
I'll try to dig it up again (why don't I ever save these links?), but I was reading a paper yesterday about how, throughout most of American history, political success for a particular ethinc/identity group (in terms of specifically putting people of their own identity into government) has usually correlated inversely with economic or social success. We see this in the contemporary examples of Detroit, Baltimore, and Birmingham, and the author of the piece also pointed to the Boston Irish of the early 20th century as an example.
Cousin Dave at June 22, 2017 6:19 AM
This type of thinking and demands is a bigots dream come true. Now people who disparage minorities can support segregation and be thought of as paragons of liberalism and progressive thought.
Jay at June 22, 2017 6:58 PM
Why not? They're getting Negro diplomas.
Alan at June 26, 2017 8:04 PM
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