In the introduction to a recent Western Resistance Radio show, Kevin DeAnna accurately pointed out:
Leftists can protest, use extreme rhetoric, flaunt radical connections, and even use violence. No one will care. The double standard is there because leftists are the establishment. The establishment actively favors what is happening to this nation. They are in power -- we are occupied. Recognize that, and you'll be ready to start mobilizing for real change in this country. (emphasis added)
Case in point, the "Group of 88" professors from Duke University Lacrosse trial.
The Group of 88 were the professors who illegally used department money to place an ad in the Duke University newspaper, The Chronicle. But this wasn't just any ad. It condemned the lacrosse players, called the scandal a "social disaster," and quoted anonymous students condemning supposedly omnipresent racism and sexism on campus.
More background information can be found here.
According to a recent article by KC Johnson, four years after the spring when they willingly tarnished the reputation of Duke's lacrosse players the Group of 88 seem to be doing fairly well for themselves.
Here is just a sample of what the Group of 88 is up to these days:
A few years ago, Cornell University spokesperson Thomas W. Bruce rejoiced that the Ivy League school had brought to Ithaca a man whose "distinguished background in contemporary global cultural studies," and whose "unique perspectives and talents" would "add to the range of reasoned intellectual discourse at Cornell."The professor about whom Bruce gushed was Grant Farred, [who] had wildly charged that unnamed lacrosse players had committed perjury...Cornell knew this record of contempt for the students he taught when it not only awarded Farred a tenured position, but promoted him to full professor, with a median salary of $154,300.
...Charles Payne, who violated Duke rules by authorizing departmental funds to pay for the Group of 88's ad, is now Frank Hixon Professor at the University of Chicago....Payne's most recent book, Teach Freedom: Education for Liberation in the African-American Tradition, is an edited volume published by Columbia Teachers' College Press; it features contributions from self-described "educator-activists" on how principles of African-American "liberation" education remain relevant today.
Houston Baker...The race-baiter who---after Mike Nifong's case collapsed---still denounced a lacrosse parent as "mother of a 'farm animal'" is now Distinguished University Professor at Vanderbilt. His behavior in the lacrosse case seemingly did nothing to lessen Baker's credibility in academic circles (Vanderbilt featured a conference last year with the "distinguished professor" opining about the 2008 election); or those with similar ideological outlooks, such as NPR, which gave Baker space to attack other black intellectuals for having betrayed their cause.
These are the types of professors that conservative students face on campuses across the country on a daily basis. Unfortunately, many students feel they are powerless to fight against them, which is why Youth for Western Civilization is necessary.
Youth for Western Civilization gives these students a network of likeminded individuals that fight the political correctness and leftist double standards on campus.
Students, join Youth for Western Civilization to become part of the movement on your campus.
