by Mike Nichols, Publisher | March 1, 2020 | 13:39 CT
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Some of the comments left by Kansas State University students given an open invitation to respond to the question, "Why do you celebrate Black History Month?" (Photos: Bailey Britton/K-State Collegian)
Nestled in the Flint Hills 120 miles west of Kansas City, Missouri is Kansas State University. Funded as an agriculture and mechanics schools in 1863 — then known as Kansas A&M — the school has today moved into the "Age of 'Wokeness'"
Celebrating Black History Month, as did most Americans in February, the school put whiteboards up in the Student Union and invited students to say why and how they marked the month-long observance. College students being who they are, there were some comments made that weren't exactly what the Diversity and Multicultural Student Affairs (DMSA) office were hoping to read..
One student answered the "Why" question with "Because it's a huge joke." Another student wrote on the "How" whiteboard, "By donating to white nationalist organizations." Still another student wrote the more generic "All Lives Matter!!" And near a comment that strangely championed the LGBT community — it was Black History Month after all — was the comment "Repent and believe the gospel," referencing Romans 3:16. Just as an aide, that is an indictment that none of humanity is righteous absent from Jesus Christ, not just LGBTs.
First of all, for hundreds of years, leaving a blank wall or empty canvass to be filled by students attending any of thousands of institutes of higher learning throughout the world has invited comedy, derision and stupidity. What else did DMSA personnel expect? There is nothing so tempting for the mind and hand of of a bored student at any college or university than the open-ended opportunity to express themselves anonymously. So they did.
But, oh, the horror! How dare they, said the snowflakes in the DMSA office? Obviously taking their cues from the smart-ass who made the "white nationalist" reference, the local snowflakes in Manhattan, Kansas worked themselves up into being offended — which likely took all of one-quarter of a blink of an eye — and demanded an investigation.
And wonder of wonders! They got one!
DMSA fired off an indignant media release calling the graffiti “repugnant” and committing to the "continued support of all people." Except for the students who freely expressed themselves, apparently. Maybe DMSA can attack the First Amendment while they are at it.
Oh, wait, they already did.
Kansas State administrators responded Saturday with a statement condemning the writings, saying “these actions are not in keeping with our values and do not support our goals of creating and sustaining a climate of respect for all students.” The university staff has called a meeting for 5:00 p.m. CT Monday for "all interested parties" to discuss the offending comments and what to do about them. I'll let you know what they decide.
The concept of Black History Month is not popular universally among the black population. Actor Morgan Freeman famously labeled it "ridiculous" on "60 Minutes" in an interview with Mike Wallace in 2005, giving solid reasons for his viewpoint. (Photo: 60 Minutes/CBS News)
While this all seems perfectly absurd to anyone over 50, it is perfectly reasonable to anyone under 40, unless they've had a common sense awakening, which is unfortunately a rare occurrence today. Overreacting to anything that does not fit into snowflakes' neat little concept of the world-as-it-should-be is to be shouted down, silenced, "canceled."
Leftists, liberals and snowflakes try to deny it, but no less a light than Morgan Freeman told CBS 60 Minutes just over 15 years ago that the idea of a Black History Month was "ridiculous," and that the best way to defeat racism is "not talk about it."
Its enough to make a snowflake's head explode.
But Freeman is absolutely right. He hasn't changed his mind. He remains a Democrat who endorsed Barack Obama. He also still believes that talking about race perpetuates division and causes both sides to disrespect the other.
Freeman is not the first to suggest we simply stop referring to "the white guy" or "the black guy" we know. He and I both believe we should make reference to "Mike," "Alice," "Morgan," "Sue," "Tyrone," or "Shani'qah" and not bother to explain "He's my black friend," "she's my white sister." When I have told others throughout my life that I don't see color, I've been roundly castigated for it, I've even been accused of lying, and told that my "erroneous belief" I can go through life not seeing the color of a person is in and of itself a racist viewpoint.
For a short time, it caused me to question if I was being truthful with myself. The more I thought about it, the more I realized those criticizing me were the ones with the warped, unrealistic viewpoint. They, in fact, were the racists, because they can't see beyond the color of someone's skin.
People viewing skin color, sexual or gender preference, or ideology as a vital part of someone's identity think they have to validate a person by acknowledging their blackness, their gayness, their Islamist self. They, however, exclude white people and Christians from this artificial validation, not because we don't need it, but because they do not respect us for being white or Christian.
Believe me, I've lived long enough to know there are jerks, con artists and assholes in every color, religion, nationality and gender — of which there are only two, by the way. People should be validated, celebrated, elevated for the content of their character, not the color of their skin, not for the accident of genetic coding that makes them appear a certain way.
The students who left those remarks on the whiteboards at Kansas State University last week may or may not know that, but their comments indicate they are fed up with being rebuked for the same kind of accident that makes those who are accepted and celebrated different from them..
I'll leave you with these thoughts: "This idea of purity, and you’re never compromised, and you’re always politically woke and all that stuff. You should get over that quickly. The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws. “There is this sense sometimes of ‘the way of me making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people, and that’s enough.’ Like if I tweet or hashtag about how you didn’t do something right or used the wrong verb. Then, I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself because, ‘Man, you see how woke I was? I called you out.’ I’m gonna get on TV. Watch my show. Watch ‘Grown-ish.’ You know, that’s not activism. That’s not bringing about change. If all you’re doing is casting stones, you’re probably not going to get that far."
A perfect takedown of cancel culture and wokism, delivered in October 2019 — by Barack Obama. Let that sink in, Snowflakes.
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