Morning Reads for International Pasta Day (October 25th)

“But overall, black students of all genders are disproportionately disciplined in school — though they actually do not misbehave more than their peers.”

The people who claim that do so by only citing studies favorable to their point of view. And in the process they deftly avoid the issue of how this “disproportionate discipline” also occurs in schools with mostly black teachers and administrators.

“Chris Riley wishes the Republicans running for governor would put the good of Georgia first”

Eh. That will happen when Democrats in any number of enclaves do the same. Which brings me to the KSU nonsense.

On the KSU article: “His co-authorship of a 1998 academic paper that cited Communist philosopher Karl Marx.” While I agree that this should not have cost Dr. Timothy Chandler his job, the paper did more than merely cite Karl Marx. It was a thoroughly Marxist paper that denounced America at its core: its economic, political, legal and cultural systems. (Chandler is originally from Britain and states that British universities are more accepting of Marxist scholarship. I should point out that British universities are also very accepting of fashionable anti-American sentiment, and I recall the New York Times writing that one of the people who rose up to defend America was none other than a young Bill Clinton while at Oxford. I also note that while Chandler did see fit to distance himself from Marxism, he did not do the same with respect to that paper’s searing attacks on the very country in which he chooses to seek employment at a very high salary and positions of prestige and influence rather than choosing to promote his views in his own.) By so greatly underplaying the extreme, far outside the political mainstream viewpoints expressed in that paper, Galloway is making clear his bias (again). That being said, the most inflammatory remarks in the paper – the ones which the Marietta Daily Journal cited in its ultimately successful columns to undermine Chandler – were actually written by the other co-author. I also give Chandler credit for having the integrity to not distance himself from those remarks and thereby throw his co-author under the bus in the interests of his own personal advancement.

Which leads us to: “In other words, Cobb County itself may remain in GOP hands for the foreseeable future, but day by day, KSU is becoming a more liberal, liberal arts institution. Anthem-kneeling is merely one sign of the split that’s afoot.” Since when is that a sign of liberalism? Does anyone remember when liberalism was associated with John F. Kennedy, Harry Truman and Theodore Roosevelt? (And locally, Sam Nunn, Tom Murphy and pre-9/11 Zell Miller?) Or a related tack: does anyone believe that Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King or Hosea Williams would have kneeled for the national anthem in a million years? Please recall that King was to the left of Bernie Sanders and Dennis Kucinich while you answer that question.

But since KSU does have to co-exist with its neighbors – citizens and the business community – and the state legislature, it would behoove those representing it – which includes the cheerleaders, their coaches and the school administrators – to put the good of KSU first, right? Or is that only a sacrifice that conservatives have to make?