A professor is under fire by Duke University officials after he responded to a newspaper editorial about racism dooming Baltimore with an opinion piece of his own, placing the blame more at the feet of blacks and saying many didn’t want to assimilate – and as proof, just look at their “strange” names.
Professor Jerry Hough rebutted the New York Times’ editorial, “How Racism Doomed Baltimore,” with a rebuke that opened: “This editorial is what is wrong.”
From there, he spoke of the Democratic-fueled “alliance of Westchester and Harlem, of Montgomery County and intercity Baltimore,” and an “asset stimulus policy” that grows market revenues but leaves blacks with a real “decline in wages,” once inflation is factored.
He then referred to Baltimore’s Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake as “utterly incompetent” and faulted her for botching the city response to the violent protests that plagued the streets in the wake of Freddie Gray’s death.
“Her resignation would be demanded if she were white,” Hough wrote. And in return for the city’s response to the protests and police response? He said: “The blacks get awful editorials like that that tell them to feel sorry for themselves.”
Hough then pointed to Asian-Americans in 1965 and the discrimination they faced.
“So where are the editorials that say racism doomed the Asian-Americans? They didn’t feel sorry for themselves, but worked doubly hard,” he wrote. “I am a professor at Duke University. Every Asian student has a very simple old American first name that symbolizes their desire for integration. Virtually every black has a strange new name that symbolizes their lack of desire for integration.”
He went on: “The amount of Asian-white dating is enormous and so surely will be the inter-marriage. Black-white dating is almost non-existent because of the ostracism by blacks of anyone who dates a white.”
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That's certainly not the case here...gone are the days when white girls were ostracized for dating blacks. We had a name for them, too.
ReplyDeleteThis guy is saying what many of us agree with! In our PC society, we can no longer call things what we did. He is correct, they brought this upon themselves with their victimist attitudes. The Irish as a group integrated, the orientals as a group integrated, the Native Americans as a group segregated themselves (but are not a problem per se), and even the terrorists are trying to fit in (for a different reason though).
ReplyDeleteSorry this guy is dead on. He really should not back down that is the problem no conviction in people anymore. If he believes it then preach it. Stand by it. He may actually be right. Why do Mexicans and Asians excell here and Blacks keep struggling. They are coddled thats why. Way too easy way too long.
ReplyDeleteAgree with these comments. Please visit fredoneverything.com and learn the truth. They don't want to "integrate" with us! They want to be different, and have their own space.
ReplyDeleteWe can't control those thoughts.