Prevented anyone from actually attending my talk. Students of color at the nearby college and announced i was, quote, a fascist white supremacist trans for ignorant of the systems of domination that produced the conditions under which people are forced to live. To have an audience still in their seats going to listen is an unusual experience that may take me a while to get accustomed to. Now, we have been hearing a lot about the crisis of free speech and College Campuses. But not much about its root cause. The narcissistic technology in a word, the American University is in the grips of a mass hysteria. Students actually believe they are victims of oppression from racism and sexism the degree is impossible in the states. It complained about the expectations its staying alive after brown. They cursed and screamed at him for three hours because his wife had sent an email suggesting students could choose their own hollowing costumes from the administrations of the bureaucracy. Among the shouting of shut up, and im censoring this coming and you are disgusting that were directed at this mildmannered leftwing professor was a cry of me are dying. So, one of the rancher is referring to the status of the minority students. They chanted we are sick and tired of being sick and tired they had grounds of plenty for being sick and tired of being sick and tired but any princeton student i dont care if he is green, purple or orange who thinks of himself as oppressed is in the grips of eternal devotion but what encumber him for the rest of his life. Or perhaps you are thinking at least the adults on campus are trying to get a firm grip on reality, to the contrary they adults actively encourage the hysteria. The massive diversity is cultivating students ever more arcane thesis of the selfinvolvement and evermore preposterous forms of selfpity. Do you want another reason for astronomical . Look no further than this democratic vote. Students regularly act out of psychodramas of oppression with the audience of the diversity, Equity Diversity and inclusion who used the occasion to expand. Many campuses have created by s. Response teams presumably active shooter Response Teams on the assumption that the discrimination is so rampant and lethal but the Rapid Defense force is needed. Freshman orientations feature seminars and toxic masculinity and white privilege. Students are taught that they are either the oppressed were the oppressors. If you were not any of the 116 and still metastasizing categories of gender, the only way that you could escape being an oppressor is by becoming an ally. The thinking is they are literally in a war zone of College Campuses and need allies from the Opposing Side to survive. Am i exaggerating, i am not. Uc Berkeley Division of Equity Inclusion hung their banners reminding students of the universitys paramount mission assigning guilt and innocence in the competitive totem pole of victimhood. One featured a student and hispanic male student allegedly pleading allow people other than yourself to exist. A message directed to the white students and faculty. This is not hyperbole. They mean it literally. College president s are the worst of them are set encouraging is delusional pathology. After the threehour expletive tirade against the sociologists, their president actually thanked them for making him proud. They subsequently convert the Racial Justice prize on two of the most aggressive participan participants. The dean of the Harvard Medical School removed the portraits of its greatest physician scientists from the Entrance Hall to the school. You can guess the reason. They are all male and looking on them would make the students feel uncomfortable and unsafe. We can only wish these doctors walk in the operating room. The narcissistic identity politics has destroyed the pursuit of knowledge throughout the humanities and most of the social scientists. Students are being given a license for ignorance. All they need to be told about their book is the content and the gonads of its author. To know whether they can dismiss its content as thoroughly repugnant and not worth reading. Shakespeare, milton, plato have all been demonstrated by students that do not have the slightest clue about the renaissance or the enlightenme enlightenment. A columbia undergraduate went about the beleaguered core curriculum, quote, who is this mozart, the superior white men . It upholds the premise is of racism. No professor has ever defended our intellectual patrimony against such shameful outbreaks of ecstatic know nothing without having a qualification about respecting diversity. Academic identity politics are now rapidly spreading throughout the culture at large. Every nonacademic institution, no matter how previously melodramatic is now vulnerable and that means above all exhibit a in the identity driven mediocrity and thought control is the firing of computer engineer from google in august of 2017. Hed written a carefully reasoned factbased memo suggesting the average career preferences of males and females that may explain why there is not a 50 50 gender parity at google anandgoogle and other fi. The language the ceos used was a direct import from the academic etymology. The google employees were herding because he damaged the orthodoxy. What followed the firing was even scarier. Its the same fix some grounds. The memo had made the employees feel unsafe at work according to the associate general counsel. It does constitute discrimination and sexual harassment. Consider for a moment what this ruling means for science. Any evolutionary biologist, psychologist or economist who studies the different risk preferences and appetite for Competition Among males and females is now at risk of his job. No matter that the findings are true. The thinking is now the dominick characteristic of the various racial ethnic and sexual groups in any institution is by definition a result of discrimination. To suggest the different groups of different capacities, cultures, skills and behaviors that explained the lack of representation is not just taboo, but it will get you fir fired. That was offered Heather Mcdonald from 2018. Next as we continu continued top books about race in america journalism professor pamela and her presentation she examines whether diversity programs are working in the areas of entertainment, academia and corporate america. What i am not optimistic about his white americas ability to see past the fiction africanamerican and the centuriesold demeaning images of people and how that has to do with a lack of diversity. Whats on the walls, what is in the literature. We are in a toxic culture where people of color are concerned and so in a lot of ways its like putting lipstick on a pig. Its like youre tryin you are o address something that without addressing the cancer of the culture. As you said, its putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound. We havent even begun to deal with it because i know ive been on the faculty for going on 26 years. I havent seen the curriculum changes the way that one would expect. Thats what all of those protests were about, the faculty of color. Understanding this complicity and continuing inequality and the continuing racial injustice. Im told that happens, im optimistic it can be done but im less optimistic about the will to do it. The other amazing part of this book that is a little bit separate from the industry is about these three fields academia, journalism and entertainment. And what came across to me so strongly that i emailed her like 11 00 at night to go, these are the fields that are representing the world. And i thought about the movement where would we solve the last couple of years is the men who are being accused or some of the men, a lot of them were in journalism, they were political journalists, they were telling the story of Henry Clinton in 2016, and matt lauer and halperin, Harvey Weinstein actually gave money but these men are telling us their stories and the same is true in that the people of coloofpeople of colorh academia, journalism and entertainment it has just pushed this narrative. Much of my work, you know because you know me, its concerned with portrayals because i think the portrayal you can draw a Straight Line from these demeaning portrayals to a Trayvon Martin to the Police Pulling over someone and they end up dead, just innocent people. Last week someone in their home, people in their home. So you know, these people think of it is jus as just a show, a a book. Its like no, it has real life consequences for the whole race of people. So, all of my work somehow kind of confronts the media portrayal, portrayal of literature because they have these devastating consequences for people of color. Weve paid attention in the last few years but i think that we should pay more attention to how the slave trade built the major universities especially the ivy league and i that they are starting to pay more attention and thats great. But when you think about it, its just like i dont mean to sound naive, but the more i think about it its like that is part of whats going on, and you also have all these academics getting back into the 18, early 20th, not just early, charles murray, you know, almost to the present. But these people embedded in academia about the peddling of White Supremacy. They wil will look at a booke this or scholars of color that want to look at that and connect the dots. It has everything to do with it. Even the narratives, then have the University President s gone before their student faculty body and said they have been complicit for centuries. Almost no one. Everyone wants a simple solution to the problem they all want to drive by diversity is maybe like five minutes. Quick, tell us what it is. How do we do it, write it down. Its not that simple. The American Experience is multilayered, complicated and people want to look at someone like me and say youve made it, where is your problem. My problem is i know many people look like we dont get the opportunity. People much brighter, better writers, scholars who didnt get to have the kind of opportunity that ive had a hand so it has not ended. People thought we are post race, remember. Now its like no one is saying anything anymore. We want to celebrate and stick the flag in the ground and say victory, we won the Civil Rights Movement. Its over. We elected barack obama. We had reconstruction, then the ku klux klan and the Civil Rights Movement, then we had reagan and the backlash to that. We have been in these cycles forever. Two steps forward, one step back, i go back and forth. How much do you feel like electing barack obama brought Us Donald Trump lacks i think very strongly we are in a backlash to barack obama just as we did the backlash to reconstruction seeing the black governors and senators and congressmen. People were not having that. Had you epidemic and now we are living through something similar to that again. You are watching the tv on cspan2 with a look of books of race in america. Now wall street journal columnist from the monthly Interview Program in depth in december 2019 with his views on the subject. I think there is a tendency to view black history writ large as the history of what whites have done to blacks. And there are various reasons why various groups want to keep that narrative of life. But in the end i think it is more than that. Yes, racism still exists. I do not know any reasonable person who would argue otherwise. Nor do i expect to see america vanquished of racism. I do think that black history is more than that and for me the question, the more relevant question is what can be done in the face of whatever racism still exists. What was done in the past in the face of racism. And i think that is a relevant story today and the message to give to the younger people today. My fear is by perpetuating the notion that its about victimization, its all about racism, or you sending the wrong message right into the next generation. Why a try in the school of the teachers and tests are racist and the police are out to get you. You send a kid out the door with that sort of message and i dont think that youre helping the child. Have you felt the sting of racism . Absolutely. Absolutely. Ive experienced it and ive been called names, ive been followed around Department Stores and have been pulled over by police. What happened and where were you . Guest i was getting an internship in the early 90s and early usa today and i was on the sports desk. I was driving to and from the headquarters. I have my car that had new york plates, although i was driving in dc. I was driving home one evening after work probably early sometime after midnight and i heard sirens blaring and the police pulled me over and ordered me out of the car at gunpoint, face away from the collar and all the rest and said i fit the description of someone they were after. Host what were you thinking . Guest i was terrified. I remember getting back in the car after i left because they seem to be gone as quickly as they came after they realized i wasnt the right person. Just sitting in my car shaking i remember i had the standard and i couldnt get it out of gear my hand was shaking so vigorously. Host three blechman 16yearsold at the time, years ago convicted of a murder that they did not commit and they were just released from jail. What does that tell you about americas criminal Justice System . Guest that it is not perfect. And i think you would be hard pressed to find the criminal Justice System is an improvement over what it used to be. Its still not perfect but i would caution against taking these examples and saying they are typical. Host versus exceptions are exasperation. Guest or the reason so many blacks are involved in the Justice System is that is a racist system per se. I do not see a lot of evidence for that. We have discussions about to say the racial makeup of prisons and jails, but we dont talk about the racial makeup of people who perpetrate crimes in this country. I dont think that you can really have one discussion without the other. So, imperfect as the criminal Justice System is, has been and continues to be, i still think that there are behavioral differences among the groups that lead to some being overrepresented in that system and others. Host the title of three of your books, the first one please stop helping us. What is the message . Guest that was a look back at the Great Society program put in place under Lyndon Johnson and expanded under nixon and others. I wanted to say what is the track record . These were put in place to help welfare programs, housing programs, expansions of minimum wage laws and so forth. I wanted to look back and say what has worked, what happened and why and i was attempting to do that with this book. Host your other book, wholesome black power . Guest it is essentially about the track record of using political power to edit int adve group economically which has essentially been the strategy of the Civil Rights Movement since the time of king. The issue there was if we can integrate political institutio institutions, the economics, Everything Else will take care of itself we just need to get our own people in place. And the Civil Rights Movement had acquitted of success in doing that. By the early 1980s you had major black cities in the u. S. Los angeles got the wachovia, washington, d. C. And so forth that had black mayors. In addition to that, you had Police Chiefs and fire commissioners and School Superintendents and so forth. But if you look at Marion Barrys washington, d. C. In the 1980s or 1990s or detroit in the 1970s, under these regimes you had the poor becoming even more impoverished. Thats not to say they shouldnt disengage in the process because what we are told it is essential between the political power and black economic progress that has since proven to be as strong as some people hoped it would be. Host generally speaking have these programs helped or hurt . Guest by and large, they have hurt. The way that i explain it with the underprivileged need of any race or ethnicity as a sort of Self Development that has to occur. Its not something that lends itself to political solutions. These are cultural changes that need to take place. Economists refer to as human capital, attitudes and behaviors and habits that need to develop in the group in order to rise in america its what we have seen happen to other groups in this country. And to the extent that the Government Program interferes with that i think its doing more harm than good and what a lot of these programs did was to interfere with that development. And that is it. But with bill clintons forms in the 19 nineties. But not entirely. It was ben franklin who said democracy is like tools and a ham voting on what you have for lunch. You dont have to be a Rocket Scientist but liberty is making sure the land is well on to protest the vote. So to have the young lambs and communities of color be able to protest the vote to give them the information with the intellect and diplomacy to protest the school to prison pipeline. Protest the racist jim crow laws scanned your ground, Voter Suppression , environmental racism that would find the children in southcentral los angeles have one third of the lung capacity of those grant on growing up in santa monica. That they are well armed to protes