Overpaid Alumni Officials at Overpriced, Private Universities are Cancelling Alumni Celebrations, Out of Solidarity with Racist Rioters, Looters, and Arsonists

Wed, Jun 3, 2020 8:10 p.m.

Subject: See what you think about this

My response to a mass emailing from the UofChicago alumni mailing further below.

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Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 5:08 P.M.
To: alumni@uchicago.edu
Subject: Re: A note to the UChicago alumni community

 

Colin:

Your message below is uninformed crap.

Here's the Manhattan Institute's Heather Mac Donald, who's been writing about policing policies nationwide (among many other important societal themes) for years:

Facts don't matter to the academic victimology narrative. Far from destroying the black body, whites are the overwhelming target of interracial violence. Between 2012 and 2015, blacks committed 85.5 percent of all black-white interracial violent victimizations (excluding interracial homicide, which is also disproportionately black-on-white). That works out to 540,360 felonious assaults on whites. Whites committed 14.4 percent of all interracial violent victimization, or 91,470 felonious assaults on blacks. Blacks are less than 13 percent of the national population.

If white mobs were rampaging through black business districts, assaulting passersby and looting stores, we would have heard about it on the national news every night. But the black flash mob phenomenon is grudgingly covered, if at all, and only locally.

The national media have been insisting on the theme of the allegedly brutal Minneapolis police department. They said nothing as black-on-white robberies rose in downtown Minneapolis late last year, along with savage assaults on passersby. Why are the Minneapolis police in black neighborhoods? Because that's where violent crime is happening, including shootings of two-year-olds and lethal beatings of 75-year-olds. Just as during the Obama years, the discussion of the allegedly oppressive police is being conducted in the complete absence of any recognition of street crime and the breakdown of the black family that drives it.

Once the violence began, any effort to "understand" it should have stopped, since that understanding is inevitably exculpatory. The looters are not grieving over the stomach-churning arrest and death of George Floyd; they are having the time of their lives. You don't protest or mourn a victim by stealing oxycontin, electronics, jewelry, and sneakers.

See https://www.city-journal.org/terrifying-collapse-of-the-rule-of-law I'll send you more if you need more.

[N.S.: Identifying info deleted.]

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From: Colin Hennessy <alumni@uchicago.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 4:42 P.M.
Subject: A note to the UChicago alumni community

 

Cancellation of Alumni Weekend @ Home.

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Dear ........,   I write to let you know that we have made the decision to cancel the general programming and events for Alumni Weekend @ Home scheduled for June 4–7.   Our nation is confronting painful issues in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and a number of other recent racist incidents. UChicago students, faculty, and alumni are part of these critical national conversations about systemic racism, injustice, and discrimination. These conversations, in Chicago and across the country, have taken on a new urgency, but they reflect deep pain and inequality that minority communities in the United States—particularly African Americans—have confronted for decades. Alumni Weekend has traditionally been an event of celebration, and to hold it as planned would not reflect what our alumni and our communities are experiencing right now.   As an institution dedicated to free expression and discourse, we always want to amplify UChicago voices and share meaningful resources and research with you. We are looking at ways to provide opportunities to hear from faculty and leaders on these issues in the coming weeks and will be touch.   In the meantime, please see this note from the provost for additional resources.   For those of you celebrating a reunion this year, we will follow up separately about how you and your class can make plans to come together on campus in 2021.   Please reach out to us at alumni@uchicago.edu if we can provide resources or information during these difficult and concerning times for all of us.   Sincerely,   Colin Hennessy Executive Director, UChicago Alumni           The University of Chicago 5801 South Ellis Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 1.800.955.0065

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