Student editor begs his university not to hire another white male as vice-chancellor | The College Fix
The vice-chancellor of Sewanee: The University of the South resigned his position in December of last year after being nominated for the position U.S. ambassador to South Africa.
Reuben Brigety was the first, and so far only, African-American administrator in the University of the South s history. Now that he s gone, the school needs to replace him.
For The Sewanee Purple s Jackson Sparkman, a white guy should not even be considered for the position. The student paper opinions editor says My sincere hope is that they do not add another portrait of a white man to our halls. We have had far more than enough.
After all, Sparkman says Sewanee s story begins with a protection of whiteness : it involves a preservation of white supremacy evident via the names of campus buildings and roads, as well as the aforementioned portraits.
We lack Black professors in most departments on our campus, Sparkman continues. We lack Black administrators in every department of our administration. We haven t worked hard enough to earn more Black students, only 4 percent of our campus, who carry the constant weight of being a non-white student at such a white instituion [sic].
This is just a prominent example of this sort of anti-white racism going on in universities across the country. I could give you examples from right here in San Diego, believe it or not! Personally, I don’t think racial or sexual discrimination is healthy. One can imagine some sort of discrimination that leans towards African-Americans, for example, to make up for past discrimination. That might work if human nature were more benign than it turns out to be. As it is, I think strict color blindness is the most that can be hoped for. Of course, as things also are, we rarely can get the most that can be hoped for. And so we get this mad scramble for these plumb positions by those newly qualified by their race and/or race and gender. It makes a hash of our liberal principles. What we get instead is an incoherent concatenation of tired Marxist memes and silly post-modern promises that leads to “hire me, and my friends!” No wonder the smarter of these people like Carl Schmitt. Politics triumphs over what we merrily thought of as merit, some of which really was merit. STEM falls last, although it seems to be eroding fast. What can one do but fight it until the end? Try to be tragedy instead of farce.