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2002-12-02 01:10 | User Profile
From The Tennessean, available online at: [url=http://www.tennessean.com/education/archives/02/11/25911925.shtml?Element_ID=25911925]http://www.tennessean.com/education/archiv...ent_ID=25911925[/url]
Sunday, 12/01/02
VU professor's essay sparks 'Confederate' backlash
By HOLLY EDWARDS Staff Writer
Anger that has been brewing for months over Vanderbilt University's deletion of the word ''Confederate'' from Confederate Memorial Hall has boiled over in recent weeks in the wake of a professor's comments about slavery and racism in the South.
Outraged Southern heritage groups have launched Web sites, posted counter-opinions on the Internet, flooded their organizations' offices with more than 1,000 phone calls and e-mails and demanded that professor Jonathan Farley be fired in the weeks since Farley's essay appeared in The Tennessean.
In the Nov. 20 opinion column, titled ''Remnants of the Confederacy glorifying a time of tyranny,'' Farley said he believed all of the Confederate soldiers and leaders should have been executed at the end of the Civil War for torturing and murdering black slaves.
Farley also called the Confederates ''cowards masquerading as civilized men'' and said modern-day Southerners who deny the Civil War was about slavery are ''the new Holocaust revisionists.''
The statements sparked heated exchanges, punctuated with insults, between Farley and members of Southern heritage groups who viewed the essay as an attack on their ancestors and a misstatement of history.
''Confederate groups deserve the same tolerance as any other group, and it shouldn't automatically be assumed we are demons with fangs out to harm African-Americans,'' said Terry Compton of Virginia, who has written rebuttals to Farley's essay for Southern heritage Internet sites. ''Jonathan Farley is a big advocate for slavery reparations, and I think he is just looking for a scapegoat.''
E-mail exchanges that both Farley and his detractors describe as insulting and threatening were posted on the Internet. Farley said he had received several death threats and more than 100 phone and e-mail messages ââ¬â some supporting his position. Farley said he intended to notify the police of all threatening messages ââ¬â samples of which he provided to The Tennessean ââ¬â but had not done so as of yesterday.
The math professor ââ¬â a graduate of Harvard and Oxford universities ââ¬â said in an interview yesterday that people were upset because they were not used to an African-American man ''looking them directly in the eye.''
''If I had written this essay in 1952, I'd be dead right now,'' Farley said, adding that he did not abide by Martin Luther King Jr.'s doctrine of passive resistance.
''I am not the Reverend Doctor Farley. I am not going to respond to the Confederates' vicious, hostile actions by embracing them.''
The controversy begins
Southern heritage groups' clash with Vanderbilt began in February when university officials decided to remove the word ''Confederate'' from a Peabody College campus residence hall after years of controversy surrounding the name. The measure angered Confederate heritage groups that viewed the university as rewriting history and rejecting Southern culture.
In October, the United Daughters of the Confederacy filed suit against the university, saying the name change violated contracts between the UDC and the former George Peabody College of Teachers, now a part of Vanderbilt. In 1935, the UDC raised $50,000 to help Peabody build the residence hall, and Vanderbilt did not consult members of the UDC before making the name change.
To some members of the community, the actions of both Vanderbilt University and the Southern heritage groups are misguided.
Longtime Nashville resident, author and historian John Egerton said he believed university officials would have better served students by explaining history rather than by trying to erase it. And, he said, some members of Southern heritage groups were using the preservation of Confederate history as a veil for white supremacist beliefs.
He said Farley's assertion that Confederate soldiers should have been executed was absurd because in the Civil War ââ¬â as in all wars ââ¬â soldiers did the ''dirty work'' of their leaders.
''All of this just shows we haven't fixed anything,'' Egerton said of the controversy. ''One of the reasons we still have racism is we tend to keep a sullen silence or sweet-talk one another instead of having a candid conversation about why we're in this mess.''
The word spreads
Farley's essay was quickly disseminated to readers throughout the country via Internet on such Web sites as Southern Heritage News and Views and the Southern Independence Party of Tennessee ââ¬â a group reporting about 3,000 members who support formation of a separate Southern republic.
While Farley said he expected a negative response, he said he was surprised by how rapidly the heritage group members organized their response.
''The Confederates have a national network, and within four hours of the paper coming out, Confederates all over the country decided my career had to be destroyed,'' Farley said. ''They wrote the chancellor, they found out where I worked, and they wrote the chair of my department.''
One correspondent, D.S. Davis of Eureka, Calif., said he got into a heated e-mail exchange with Farley after he read Farley's essay online. Davis said he got an insulting and ''childish'' response from Farley; Farley would neither confirm nor deny e-mail messages attributed to him.
''In my opinion, he is mentally unstable and very likely capable of doing students and the university some substantial physical damage,'' Davis wrote in an e-mail message to a Tennessean reporter. ''I think he needs to undergo psychiatric treatment and forced hospitalization immediately.''
University officials are standing behind Farley's right to express his opinions publicly. ''Our faculty have, by virtue of their academic freedom, the ability and authority to say anything they want,'' said Michael Schoenfeld, Vanderbilt's vice chancellor for public affairs. ''We also encourage civility and respect, and we want our faculty to be responsible with this right.''
Heritage groups respond
Some who disagree with Farley's views say he should be fired because of his ability to influence young people at the university.
''You can just feel the hate inundating from that essay, and frankly I think he should be terminated because of his racial views,'' said Jack Leard of South Carolina, a member of Sons of Confederate Veterans. ''I think contact with people like him is like a poison that spreads.''
Madison Cook, chairman of the Southern Independence Party of Tennessee, said he received more than 1,300 calls and e-mails from members who were shocked and outraged by Farley's column.
While many said they thought the professor should lose his job, Cook said he believed Farley's supervisors should simply explain to him why his essay demonstrated ''bad judgment.''
''I'm all for free speech, but calling for executions and slavery reparations is absurd. It's out-and-out nonsense,'' Cook said from his headquarters in Granville. ''I think Farley's bosses need to sit down and chat with him about what's appropriate and what isn't.''
As did others, Cook said he believed Farley's essay was a continuation of the university's effort to rewrite history. ''Changing the name of a dorm is politically correct crap,'' he said. ''These people are the historical revisionists.''
Some support Farley
Although Farley said most of the phone calls and e-mails he had received were from those who disagreed with him, he said he also received several letters and e-mails of support after his opinion piece ran.
Hector Rosario, a doctoral student at Columbia University, said he supported Farley's right to speak his mind, regardless of whether he agreed with all of Farley's opinions. He said he had written letters of support for Farley and asked his friends to do the same.
For Rosario, the most troubling aspect of the story has been the death threats Farley has described and the attacks on his career. ''That lack of tolerance is extremely corrosive,'' he said.
Rosario added that most people cannot understand what it's like to be an African-American man ââ¬â particularly a well-educated African-American man ââ¬â living in the South. ''You are always on the defensive and always trying to prove you have a right to exist, because you are looked at as something less than other human beings,'' he said.
But some members of Confederate heritage groups say it is they who are forced to be on the defensive by those who cast all of them as racists.
''The Confederate flag is seen as a racist symbol, but to me it's a symbol of people willing to fight and die for freedom,'' Leard said. ''It represents a group of men willing to fight against overwhelming odds to defend a country they loved.''
Despite the rift between the two sides, the controversy sparked by the dorm name change and Farley's essay may at least get people on both sides talking, Egerton said.
''What Jonathan Farley did was push all this stuff on top of the table where people from each extreme can shoot at each other,'' he said. ''Maybe a more rational approach will emerge from it.''
2002-12-03 07:08 | User Profile
From The Washington Times, available online at: [url=http://www.washtimes.com/national/20021203-8413244.htm]http://www.washtimes.com/national/20021203-8413244.htm[/url]
Vanderbilt professor outrages Confederate progeny
Robert Stacy McCain THE WASHINGTON TIMES December 3, 2002
A Vanderbilt University professor has stirred outrage in Dixie by declaring that Confederates were "cowards masquerading as civilized men" who should have been executed at the end of the Civil War.
"Every Confederate soldier deserved not a hallowed resting place at the end of his days but a reservation at the end of the gallows," Jonathan David Farley, an assistant professor of mathematics, wrote in a commentary in the Tennessean, Nashville's largest newspaper.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), the professor wrote, is an organization that "honors traitors."
Vanderbilt sparked conflict over Southern heritage this year when the university said it would strip the word "Confederate" from a dormitory, Confederate Memorial Hall, built in the 1930s with donations raised by the UDC.
Mr. Farley's Nov. 20 column in the Tennessean increased the furor. Mr. Farley has complained of threatening e-mails and phone calls, while the newspaper has received letters from across the country.
"The majority of the letters have been from out of state, because it became an Internet thing," said John Gibson, the reader editor of the Tennessean, adding that out-of-state letters "rarely" are published in the paper.
Tim Chavez, a columnist for the Tennessean, described one 66-year-old reader's frustration over Mr. Farley's views: "This just burns me because I don't know what to do about it," the man said. "If someone compared your ancestors to mass murderers, what would you do?"
Mr. Farley called Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest "a 19th century Hitler," called Confederate heritage groups "the new holocaust revisionists," and said that "the race problems that wrack America to this day are due largely to the fact that the Confederacy was not thoroughly destroyed, its leaders and soldiers executed, and their lands given to the landless freed slaves."
Allen Sullivant, chief of heritage defense for the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), said Mr. Farley is "entitled to his opinion, even one that's based on misinformation, ignorance and bigotry."
In response to complaints from SCV members, Mr. Farley has posted e-mail replies that "drip venom," Mr. Sullivant said.
Replying to one SCV member, Mr. Farley vowed to "form our own armies to expose and smash you. Very simply, we represent good and you represent evil."
Mr. Sullivant said such "blatantly, openly hateful" messages show that Mr. Farley is "just one of these people who's got a real chip on his shoulders."
A native of Rochester, N.Y., Mr. Farley, 32, is a graduate of Harvard and Oxford universities. His parents are both academics. His father, an immigrant from Jamaica, holds a Ph.D. in economics, while his mother, an immigrant from Guyana, holds a Ph.D. in history.
On his university Web page (www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~farley) Mr. Farley poses beside a large poster of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, whom he calls a hero.
Mr. Farley has been politically active since moving to Nashville from Berkeley, Calif., in 1997, mounting a Green Party campaign for Congress this year, describing the two major party candidates as "two old white men with identical views." He challenged Rep. Bob Clement, Tennessee Democrat, in the Nov. 5 election, placing a distant fourth with 1,205 votes.
Last year, Mr. Farley wrote an article criticizing Chelsea Clinton for supporting the U.S. anti-terrorism effort. "One of Bill Clinton's redeeming traits is the fact that, when he studied at Oxford, he opposed America's war," Mr. Farley, then a visiting scholar at England's Oxford University, wrote in a British newspaper, the Guardian. "Maybe sometime, Chelsea, you will too."
A Vanderbilt spokesman said that Mr. Farley, who is not tenured, is protected by the university's academic-freedom policy.
"Professor Farley is speaking as an individual, he does not represent Vanderbilt University's policy, and his statements are neither supported nor endorsed by the university," said Michael Schoenfeld, Vanderbilt's vice chancellor for public affairs.
2002-12-03 22:43 | User Profile
Rosario added that most people cannot understand what it's like to be an African-American man ââ¬â particularly a well-educated African-American man ââ¬â living in the South. ''You are always on the defensive and always trying to prove you have a right to exist, because you are looked at as something less than other human beings,'' he said.
This cucaracha may not like nigras much, but he clearly knows the value of allying with them against the hated gringos.
As for the "please tolerate us, too!" pule of the "heritage" crowd, the less said, the better.
Ever notice the way these Caribbean nigs are always the most offensive? Stokely Carmichael, Harry Belafonte, Colin Jackson and now this ape.
2002-12-03 23:43 | User Profile
Originally posted by N.B. Forrest@Dec 3 2002, 16:43 Ever notice the way these Caribbean nigs are always the most offensive? Stokely Carmichael, Harry Belafonte, Colin Jackson and now this ape.
Colin Powell? (Jamaica)
He of the 2000 GOP convention "Affirmative Action is not bad" and last week's "We in the USA want more Muslim immigration."
-Jay
2002-12-04 00:16 | User Profile
Rosario added that most people cannot understand what it's like to be an African-American man ââ¬â particularly a well-educated African-American man ââ¬â living in the South. ''You are always on the defensive and always trying to prove you have a right to exist, because you are looked at as something less than other human beings,'' he said.
Again with the blatant falsehoods. This distinguished professor is obviously a human being. A complete idiot but presumably human.
2002-12-04 05:02 | User Profile
More Trash from the "liberals"
*In the Nov. 20 opinion column, titled ''Remnants of the Confederacy glorifying a time of tyranny,'' Farley said he believed all of the Confederate soldiers and leaders should have been executed at the end of the Civil War for torturing and murdering black slaves. *
2002-12-06 00:04 | User Profile
Johnathan Farley, an assistent prof. at Vanderbilt has outraged many by stating that defeated Condederates were more deserving of the gallows than enduring respect. (article: Lew Rockwell Report. Weds.12/3) Farley is a Black faculty member whose parents immigrated from the Caribbean. A Marxist, and grand admirer of Che Guervara, he states that N. B. Forrest was a 19th century Hitler. Vanderbilt will do nothing to the untenured Farley, as his comments come under university guidelines for freedom of speech, etc. Just let a White prof. be so outspoken!
2002-12-06 05:08 | User Profile
Originally posted by solutrian@Dec 6 2002, 00:04 Johnathan Farley, an assistent prof. at Vanderbilt has outraged many by stating that defeated Condederates were more deserving of the gallows than enduring respect. (article: Lew Rockwell Report. Weds.12/3) Farley is a Black faculty member whose parents immigrated from the Caribbean. A Marxist, and grand admirer of Che Guervara, he states that N. B. Forrest was a 19th century Hitler. Vanderbilt will do nothing to the untenured Farley, as his comments come under university guidelines for freedom of speech, etc. Just let a White prof. be so outspoken!
Actually what Farley said is hardley unprecedented, or outside of the South even that controversial, today or historically. No one ever heard the song (sang to The Battle Hymn of the Republic)
2002-12-07 03:59 | User Profile
If my memory serves, it was: "hang jeff davis from a sour apple tree". The issue of Farley has been better discussed on an other post. I failed to see it before I posted mine.
2002-12-08 21:12 | User Profile
From The Associated Press, available online at: [url=http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/state/article/0,1406,KNS_348_1595451,00.html]http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/state/article/...1595451,00.html[/url]
Professor's vilification of Confederates draws outrage
By John Gerome, Associated Press December 8, 2002
NASHVILLE - In a photo posted on his Web page, Vanderbilt University math professor Jonathan David Farley poses beside a poster of the late Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, whom Farley identifies as one of his heroes along with Hannibal and Jesus.
The image disturbs some members of the Southern Independence Party of Tennessee and other Southern heritage groups, but not nearly as much as Farley's Nov. 20 essay in The Tennessean newspaper that deems Confederates "cowards masquerading as civilized men" who should have been executed at the end of the Civ_il War.
His remarks angered the mostly white heritage groups who view them as an attack on their ancestors and a misstatement of history. Now, Farley, who is black, says he is the target of death threats and a campaign to end his academic career.
The ruckus over Farley's essay is the latest race-related incident this year at Vanderbilt, a predominantly white school that has pushed for more diversity under new Chancellor Gordon Gee.
The administration decided in September to remove the word "Confederate" from Confederate Memorial Hall, prompting a lawsuit from the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which donated $50,000 to build the hall in the 1930s.
Earlier, political science professor Carol M. Swain caused a stir with her new book "The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration," in which she argues that affirmative action, black-on-white crime and immigration policies are being exploited by new white nationalists to woo mainstream whites.
Virginia Shepherd, chairwoman of the faculty senate, said Vanderbilt's faculty and students are, by design, more diverse than they once were.
"We are very conscious of the diversity issue and of becoming not a university of the South, but a university of America and of the world," she said last week. "You go through some image changes when you make those moves and decisions."
Farley, a 32-year-old native of Rochester, N.Y., and a graduate of Harvard and Oxford universities, joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 1996. Both of his parents are academics. His father, an immigrant from Guyana,holds a doctorate in economics, while his mother has a doctorate in history. Farley's record includes a Fulbright scholarship and top prizes in mathematics from Oxford University, according to his Web site.
He declined to comment for this story, citing fears for his safety and a pending decision on his tenure this school year.
But earlier he told The Tennessean, "If I had written this essay in 1952, I'd be dead right now." He said he had not reported the recent death threats to police.
In his essay, titled "Remnants of the Confederacy glorifying a time of tyranny," he said "the race problems that wrack America to this day are due largely to the fact that the Confederacy was not thoroughly destroyed, its leaders and soldiers executed and their lands given to the landless freed slaves."
He also said the United Daughters of the Confederacy "honors traitors."
"Today's Confederates, who deny that the war was about slavery, are the new Holocaust revisionists," Farley wrote.
His words reverberated like cannons at Fort Sumter.
Angry messages deluged Southern heritage Web sites after the column circulated on the Internet. Vanderbilt officials received more than a dozen responses - some supporting Farley's right to express himself and others calling for his firing. Tennessean editors reported at least 30 letters and messages.
Vanderbilt spokesman Michael Schoenfeld said the school supports Farley's right to express his views, but acknowledged some of the comments were "contrary to Vanderbilt's efforts to create a civil and respectful academic community and are rightly offensive to, and rejected by, most people."
Mike Mihalik, chairman of the math department, called Farley's remarks "a matter of free speech" and said his "activities outside the university are his business" and will not affect his tenure.
Farley ran for Tennessee's 5th Congressional District as a Green Party candidate this year, emphasizing reparations for slavery and segregation, removal of the Confederate flag from public view, universal health insurance and free public education through college or vocational school.
He finished a distant fourth with 1,205 votes.
Allen Sullivant, chief of heritage defense for the Sons of Confederate Veterans, said some members view Farley's comments as a "blood libel."
"He's entitled to his opinion, but as far as we're concerned his opinion is based on ignorance, misinformation and outright bigotry," Sullivant said.
Civil War historian and author Shelby Foote said the SCV and other heritage groups have a right to be upset.
"He's dishonoring people who fought an honorable war for what they thought were honorable reasons," Foote said from his Memphis home.
But he added, "I don't believe in throwing people out because of their beliefs or their influence. Let him talk if that's his view."
2002-12-09 13:26 | User Profile
Farley said he believed all of the Confederate soldiers and leaders should have been executed at the end of the Civil War for torturing and murdering black slaves.
Negroes just love to make stuff up. That makes them could as storytellers but no so good as professors. It was illegal to murder slaves just as it was illegal to murder anyone. A slave in fact had the right to defend his life if his master tried to kill him. There are cases on record of slaves being acquited for killing their master in self defense.
As for toture I can only assume that he means whippings for punishment. Well, the British Navy flogged White men of the day as punishment. This is far harsher for Whites than blacks as black physiology makes them more immune to such beatings. Furthermore, anyone who is so outraged should consider the modern torture policy of our great pal Israel.
For Rosario, the most troubling aspect of the story has been the death threats Farley has described and the attacks on his career. ''That lack of tolerance is extremely corrosive,'' he said.
I love when the leftists say this. What a crock. They are always not only threatening conservatives, but carrying out such threats. Every single report of a college newspaper theft I've ever heard about was carried out by the leftists who didn't want the other side to have a voice.
2002-12-09 15:01 | User Profile
Reading this swill reminds me of the old vaudeville routine where the comic is standing innocently, minding his own business, when a woman passerby viciously slaps his face. "How dare you remind me of someone I hate!", she huffs before exiting. This is a ploy by Farley to gain 'credibility', Cornel West-style, with the black community. If he's got any gangsta-rap lyrics he's been working on, now is the time to book the recording studio!
Mr. Farley vowed to "form our own armies to expose and smash you. Very simply, we represent good and you represent evil."
No "battles" will be fought on the first and fifteenth of the month, however.
Longtime Nashville resident, author and historian John Egerton said ''All of this just shows we haven't fixed anything. One of the reasons we still have racism is we tend to keep a sullen silence or sweet-talk one another instead of having a candid conversation about why we're in this mess.''
Okay, John, how's this for candid? In 30 centuries African blacks had yet to thrash out a working version of the wheel. Reaching up for fruit and occasionally wilding a gazelle or antelope wit dey homies constituted black social & cultural life. Currently, they've 'progressed' to the level of equating sex with infants to band-aids and mercurochrome. If they didn't have white people and television there, one might still be able to arrive in Africa, produce a working Zippo lighter and be declared the village god. Perhaps the problems blacks face in America - total and utter dependance to the State, propensity for mindless violence, and inability of males to raise their offspring - can be traced to their African forebears, indicating Southerners might have fared better had they simply cut out the Jewish middleman and just taught gorillas to pick cotton.
University officials are standing behind Farley's right to express his opinions publicly. ''Our faculty have, by virtue of their academic freedom, the ability and authority to say anything they want,'' said Michael Schoenfeld, Vanderbilt's vice chancellor for public affairs. ''We also encourage civility and respect, and we want our faculty to be responsible with this right.''
They don't call Vandy the Harvard of the South for nothing, y'know.
The math professor said that people were upset because they were not used to an African-American man ''looking them directly in the eye.''
Sure; everybody knows that's when a gorilla's about to charge you!
''If I had written this essay in 1952, I'd be dead right now,'' Farley said.
Not quite. Without Che to guide you and Jewish academics to mentor you, you'd've been pushing a broom. But you'd have been productive, at least.
''I am not the Reverend Doctor Farley.''
No, YOU is da noted mafamagician Chuck U Farley!
2002-12-09 16:49 | User Profile
I don't see how anybody could be shocked by anything this guy or any other negro academic would say.
We've been listening to variations on this theme for 40 years and likely will be listening to it for another 400.
They keep probing with the bayonet and hitting only flab. They'll pull back when they hit some steel. But don't hold your breath.
And ,BTW, how did the son of Jaimacan and a Guyanian (I may have coined one there) ever get a WASP name like Jonathan Farley? Or maybe it's Irish Catholic.
2 to 1 despite his anti white rhetoric he managed to pick up a white wife somewhere along the way and that other ne plus ultra of social climbing American negritude, a 700 dollar a month lease on a top of the line Lexus (no security deposit due at inception. Thank you very much).
Add a walking stick, a gap between his front teef, and an appetite for blonde coeds and -presto-you got Harvard's replacement for Cornell West.
This man is just just trying to get out of the boonies and into a real gig in the Ivies. That's what it's all about. And my money is on him to pull it off.
2002-12-11 14:34 | User Profile
Vanderbilt affirmative action hireling Jonathan Farley poses with his hero, Communist terrorist Che Guevara. Farley snidely referred to Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest as " a 19th century Hitler."
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Vanderbilt Math Teacher Spews Vitriol Over Confederacy
Vanderbilt professor Johnathan Farley was educated at Harvard and Oxford, but his simple-minded tirades against the Confederacy indicate how low prestigious universities will stoop to dole out fancy degrees to blacks. Perhaps he received his PHD in mathematics when he stopped counting his fingers to do arithmetic.
The angry backlash from the decision by Vanderbilt administrators to change the name of Confederate Memorial Hall triggered some bloodthirsty instincts in Farley. He beat the war drum in the local Nashville press, where he fumed that "Every Confederate soldier deserved not a hallowed resting place at the end of his days but a reservation at the end of the gallows."
Caught up in the wind of his own fury, Farley went on to brand General Nathan Bedford Forrest as "a 19th century Hitler," and compared United Daughters of the Confederacy to holocaust revisionists.
Farley's bulge-eyed outbursts might be dismissed as the sort of primal screeching heard from the street pulpits of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. The difference is that Jonathan Farley is supposed to have the keen, calculating mind befitting a mathematics professor. Instead, he raves like an African potentate shaking his spear at the remnants of white colonialism.
"The race problems that wrack America to this day," says Farley, "are due largely to the fact that the Confederacy was not thoroughly destroyed, its leaders and soldiers executed, and their lands given to the landless freed slaves."
In the aftermath of the war against the South, many prominent Northerners had a higher opinion of the Confederacy than Farley does.
In a Decoration Day speech in 1885, one old Civil War veteran described "the ability and virtues of Robert E. Lee" as "a part of the common heritage of glory of all the people of America." No unrepentant rebel, the man who spoke those words was Gen. George McClellan, once commander of the Union Army of the Potomac. Who is Jonathan Farley to say different?
Truth is that Jonathan Farley is not really an American himself, and he expresses much the same contempt for America that he harbors towards the South. The son of a Jamaican father and African mother- both academics- Farley idolizes murderous Marxist revolutionaries like Che Guevara.
If not American, what is Jonathan Farley? He is the egocentric spawn of pampered black immigrants who has spent his life licking up the cream of white institutions, then hissing back at his benefactors as thanks for their colorblind philanthropy. In other words, he is the quintessential citizen of the global village.
And since the global village is mostly nonwhite, Farley acts as a third world janissary for black hegemony over whites. His attitude differs little from the seething hordes who rampage over civilization to loot and burn what their crude minds cannot appreciate.
Farley is one of those malcontent who lives among people he envies and despises so he can harangue those he considers inferior. As a protected species in the cozy domain of a posh university, Farley has plenty of idle time to invent mischief .
Farley is everything he presumes to detest: a crass, condescending elitist who lords over the white untouchables squatting outside the manor gates.
Predictably, Vanderbilt officials rushed to Farley's defense.
The university says Farley can say anything he wants without fear of losing his job.
To be sure, if Farley was white and posed in front of a poster of Nathan Bedford Forrest, he would be off the Vanderbilt campus before sundown.
Perhaps we Southerners should take a cue from the seething, third world masses who scorned American Imperialism in the bygone days of Che Guevara.
Let's gather a mob at Vanderbilt and shout
"YANKEE GO HOME!" -- Editor.
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2002-12-11 15:01 | User Profile
The math professor ââ¬â a graduate of Harvard and Oxford universities ââ¬â said in an interview yesterday that people were upset because they were not used to an African-American man ''looking them directly in the eye.''
Liberals will question it when someone on the Right with an advanced engineering degree like Butz engages in historical revisionism and questions the Holocaust, or when a physics professor like William Pierce takes up politics--the libs say the academic credentials of these men don't match what they're saying in the public sphere.
For example, the library of the University of California Santa Barbara puts out a [url=http://www.library.ucsb.edu/infolit/webevalexamples.html]guide for evaluating the credibility of websites as academic sources[/url], and implies Butz is not qualified to discuss historical topics since his credentials are in electrical and computer engineering and not history. [BTW, the library's guide has some glaring grammatical errors in it. How authoritative can it be? ;) ]
But where are these liberal critics now when a math professor decides he's qualified to comment on the Confederacy?