The Rutgers Faculty Clique has, er, blackballed Condoleeza Rice from speaking at the Rutgers commencement.<\/p>\n
Juan Williams, at least, sees the hypocrisy:<\/p>\n
I, too, disagreed with many of the policies Rice faithfully supported as a member of the Bush administration. But only partisan hatred can blind the faculty to her extraordinary level of accomplishment for herself and her country.<\/p>\n
Rice is smart, disciplined, hard-working and the model of an inspiring modern American. She personifies the American Dream. She is living inspiration for a young person trying to accomplish great work no matter what the barriers. And in Rice\u2019s generation there were some serious barriers starting with her race and gender.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And Williams – who, let us recall, is an unapologetic liberal – notes that this frothing intolerance isn’t aimed just at black, female and black female politicians:<\/p>\n
There is an added element at play here. There is a disgraceful double standard amongst liberals, particularly those in academia, in the hatred they direct at black conservatives.<\/p>\n
We saw this last April when the conservative neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson was forced to step down as a Commencement Speaker for Johns Hopkins University (where he ably served as the head of pediatric neurosurgery).<\/p>\n
Liberals on the Hopkins campus mobilized against Carson because he criticized President Obama\u2019s health care reform law and said that he opposed gay marriage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Hate eventually backfires.<\/p>\n
The media and the academic establishment are going to do what they can to forestall this, obviously – but hate\u00a0does\u00a0eventually consume its owner.<\/p>\n
And when people – especially blacks, women, and black women – see that one of our parties has been trying to program them for a couple of generations now, hopefully it’ll backfire with a vengeance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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