Truth or Consequences
"Diversity is our greatest strength."
- Vice President Dan Quayle, San Francisco, May 19, 1992
"Students are being brought in, they can't compete, and they end up blaming
phantom racism for their intellectual and psychological difficulties."
- Author Heather MacDonald, February 25, 2019
When Harvard University held its commencement rites in May it wasn't an "inclusive" affair.
For the third straight year, African scholars chose to celebrate "black brilliance" separately from the university's undergraduate and graduate schools.
Harvard even held its first "UndocuGraduation" for students in the United States illegally.
But Harvard is not unique amid the wildly left-leaning world of academia. Earlier this year the National Association of Scholars found that 76 colleges sponsored segregated graduations.
Blacks that demand independent events are most common, but now Hispanic, Asian, and LGBTTQQIAAP (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, ally, pansexual) groups are getting in on the act.
Noteworthy universities that hold separate commencements include Yale, Stanford, UCLA, UC-Berkeley, and UC-San Diego.
This newsletter has explored the expansion of African and Chicano Studies programs introduced on campuses nationwide and the creation of Diversity and Inclusion administrations, often at considerable expense, to police student behavior.
Is this all in keeping with former Vice President Dan Quayle's introduction of the "Diversity is Our Greatest Strength" credo in 1992?
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Yesterday former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg continued to lay the groundwork for a presidential bid when he spoke at a black megachurch in Brooklyn.
There Bloomberg withdrew his 16-year support for so-called "stop and frisk" police strategies.
"I was wrong," Bloomberg lamented, "And I am sorry."
Many interpreted the media mogul's words as self-serving.
Bloomberg has long measured the political winds around him and after first running as a Republican, he campaigned as an Independent, and now is a Democrat.
Acknowledging that he only slowed strict policing in his last years as mayor, Bloomberg added, "I now see that we should have acted sooner, and acted faster."
Reverend Al Sharpton, founder of the National Action Network, said he told Bloomberg, "You can't expect people like us to forgive and forget after one speech."
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A headline in today's Los Angeles Times blares, "California's Changing Demographics Will Further Doom Republicans."
Accompanying the article is a photograph of students advocating against the Save Our State initiative, commonly remembered as Proposition 187, in 1994 (note commentary at Twitter):
By a large plurality California voters supported the measure that prevented those in the state illegally to qualify for social services, including public education.
Five weeks after the voting, District Court Judge
Mariana Pfaelzer (Truth or Consequences, "A Woman Who Changed History," 11-27-18) issued an injunction against the will of the people, contending the measure infringed upon the federal government's jurisdiction to deal with immigration matters.
While the results of the referendum went through further legal meanderings, it was ultimately Pfaelzer's decision that effectively unraveled the wishes of Californians: Today's headline embodies the result.
Ironically, the same supporters of Pfaelzer's judgment, including editorialists at the Los Angeles Times, now argue vociferously in denying federal precedent pursuant to immigration issues.
Unmercifully, Pfaelzer stayed on the bench for 19 years.
Prior to her appointment by President Jimmy Carter, Pfaelzer was an attorney with the Los Angeles firm of Wyman, Bautzer, Rothman, and Kuchel where she met her husband of 43 years, Frank Rothman.
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Furor surrounding the introduction of a spicy sandwich continues to plague Popeyes Chicken outlets across America, and viral photographs of inmates enjoying the food are now circulating on social media.
One's been identified as Floridian Marcus Elliott, 22, serving a four-year stint for heroin distribution.
Soon Truth or Consequences will have a full library of these videos.
| | Outrageous cellphone video from inside a Milwaukee Popeyes restaurant shows a group of employees getting into a vicious brawl. This all went down while customers were inside. The violent encounter happened at the Popeyes near 76th and Good Hope Road around 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 13. http://via.fox6now.com/lpOED |
| | Another violent episode broke out during the re-release of Popeyes' chicken sandwich. |
| | An armed group of people rushed the door of a Popeyes Chicken restaurant in southeast Houston Monday night demanding chicken sandwiches. Houston police were called to the restaurant on Scott ... |
| | A group of at least five thieves carried off boxes of shoes at a Nike store in Redlands, CA while employees stood and watched. Nike policy does not allow employees to intervene. https://abc7.com/ |
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Last week Texas special needs teacher Tiffani Langford, 32, made the news for leveling a high school sophomore in Kyle, Texas.
Now comes word of a melee in the foreign languages classroom of Maryland instructor Vivian Noirie, 36.
She's charged with assault and child endangerment after this donnybrook (it's a rather large child):
Might all of the above have something to do with the achievement gap we keep hearing about?
