Rebuttal to Brown Univ. s Letter Decrying Pervasive Racism in U.S.
And just what truths are these? The main one: that racial domination and white supremacy define our national existence even now, a century and a half after the end of slavery.
I deeply resented the letter. First of all, what makes an administrator (even a highly paid one, with an exalted title) a leader of this university? We, the faculty, are the only leaders worthy of mention when it comes to the realm of ideas. Who cares what some paper-pushing apparatchik thinks? It s all a bit creepy and unsettling. Why must this university s senior administration declare, on behalf of the institution as a whole and with one voice, that they unanimously without any subtle differences of emphasis or nuance interpret contentious current events through a single lens?