All or none idiocy

If you are black, a person who professes knowledge (aka, a professor) and a racist, well, you're going to be sought after by various institutions of so-called learning. In fact, the more outrageous your public racist comments, the more provocative you appear to be, the better your chances of getting hired.

Zandria Robinson left her cushy job at the University of Memphis where she taught a course on that big, practical money-maker, sociology. Zandria (her friends call her "Sistah Sledgehammer") resigned in June after her racist postings on Twitter and Facebook became famous. She is now doing her hating across town and some of her new peers aren't thrilled to have a racist in their midst.

One of the social media posting Sistah Sledgehammer put out was that she didn't want her daughter attending school with "snotty privileged whites." She probably caught some flak from U of Memphis and summarily left the school. Now she ramped up her racist remarks since leaving.

In a series of tweets that began 9 days after Dylann Roof gunned down 9 African Americans in Charleston, S.C., she painted Roof as a representative of all white people by posting: "whiteness is most certainly and inevitably terror." She also said that she expects to see "thinkpieces (sic) about how more mental health services could prevent white people from acting how they are conditioned to act."

If anyone needs mental health services, it's Zandria Robinson. White people detest what Dylann Roof did.

Rhodes College hired Robinson last week and praised her for her "provocative" comments. "As a leading scholar and author in the areas of race, class, gender, culture, and the South, Dr. Zandria Robinson's comments are sometimes provocative, controversial, and debatable," the Rhodes College said in a statement.

 But ask yourself, what do her "provocative" comments provoke if not more negativity and racial unrest. She takes one case of a sick, angry individual, who unlike Robinson, is a white racist instead of a black racist, and then generalizes his actions to pertain to all white people.

Fortunately, not all faculty support the hiring of this racist. Professor John Murray, an economics professor, believes the school is trying to undo last year's bad publicity when people posted racist statements from the white side of the hatred. But Murray said that hiring a black racist makes little sense.

"It does seem kind of crazy that we're inviting a person to come teach on our faculty who seems to dislike a chunk of our students," he said.

Who can disagree? If you're white and your child wants to study sociology, would you want him or her to have Robinson for a teacher? And if you\'re a black parent who wants the best for your child, is a racist professor the person you want your child to learn from?

It isn't a math course that she teaches. It's a course that is often deeply rooted in the viewpoints of the person who's teaching it.

How sad to see how far the Obamas and Al Sharptons have taken us back in our darkest history.


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