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Tues/Wed - Oct 27 -

KURIAN AFFAIR FOLLOW-UP -

Has Duke faculty faked Jim Crow?

From The Scrapbook at The Weekly Standard -

*Chronicle editor Karen Hauptman: ... "even if the Chronicle had rejected the column, the ideas Kurian expressed would still exist."

They would? Assuming Karen Hauptman is correct about this-- that some significant body of Duke opinion shares Philip Kurian's disapproval of the "exorbitant Jewish privilege in the United States"-- isn't that kind of a problem?*


Somewhere between sleep and wakefulness last night the Kurian piece kept nagging at me. And then it occurred to me that something was very wrong with Kurian's picture of the social caste or class system in the U.S.

Jim Crow is the nickname for it.
And a little rhyme went with it:

If you're White, you're alright;
If you're Brown, stick around;
And if you're Black, get back!

It finally dawned on me that Kurian manifested no awareness whatsoever of the second category of "Colored" People.

A careful rereading of his piece will bear this out, I feel confident.

But how could Kurian have developed such a cockeyed and revisionist view? Since he is a student at Duke, I have to attribute his malformed education in this regard to his college.

Then, which department or professor is disseminating such Revisionist American History?

I think Duke University owes us an explanation for this.


+ Yeah, there is kind of a problem here.


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