Life at Northwestern University, as reported by Charles Rollet at The College Fix:
Top administrators at Northwestern University convened a panel discussion earlier this month to address a recent incident of racial harassment on campus. …
The event was introduced by John Marquez, an assistant professor of African American and Latino Studies. He began by dedicating his comments “to those indigenous peoples who were displaced or obliterated to build Evanston and Northwestern.”
“I hope their ghosts haunt us,” he said.
Apparently, the haunting ghosts don't get in the way of his beauty sleep or bother his sensibilities enough to forgo employment , seeing how he doesn't mind being paid by the imperialists who displaced and obliterated the land his office sits upon...
PS the captcha is shilling for GM now??? What's next, Captcha's for Obama reelection?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt's nice to know that Northwestern professors believe in ghosts.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseJust down the beach from Northwestern Law School, the Ft. Dearborn Massacre occurred in August 1812. About half of a group of sixty soldiers, women and children were killed by Potawatomi Indians; the other half were briefly taken prisoner. For two hundred years it was known as the Ft. Dearborn Massacre. Around 2000, it became known as the Battle of Ft. Dearborn, at least among the historians/community leaders/politicians in Chicago. Plaques were changed, entries in locally-published history books were altered and statutes were removed. The indigenous people are not gone, not forgotten, and not without influence. In addition to trying to re-write history, they run successful casinos, one of which is across the lake near New Buffao.
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Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseJust don't drink the tequila.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe world is full of loons. The problem arises when not even one of the people he was addressing laughed out loud to his face.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHe's right! By way of appeasing those ghosts, I propose that public housing projects on the south side of Chicago be torn down, and replaced by Native American ceremonial grounds.
The displaced former public housing residents can be relocated to Evanston, where it seems they approve of certain kinds of social justice, and can expect a warm welcome.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseGood news for John Marquez: yes, there are "ghosts"....but they're all named "Casper" and they're all friendly. ;)
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI think it is ironic that the same people that call us xenophopic about illegal immigration are the same people that are so concerned about indeginous people. What about the people sandwiched in the middle? We don't have their sympathies? I can't take any of them seriously. It is all about victims and being politically correct. We should change PC to PB...Politically Benefitial.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbusePerhaps Professor Marquez should resign rather than continuing to work fo,r and accepting a check from, the Northwestern oppressors . . . .
Jeez, this is why I tell my fellow liberals that while I think many Conservative boogeymen are specters, it is quite true that academia is chock full of quasi-Marxist idiots like this guy.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"Who you gonna call?"
(surprised no one beat me to it.)
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse“to those indigenous peoples who were displaced or obliterated to build Evanston and Northwestern.”
And, of course, to the peoples who those indigenous people displaced without the courtesy of convening a single panel. Shame!
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