Libs riot. RINOs cave. Unqualified race pimp hired (with tenure). *Ain’t Republican “control” grand?*
Tenure is a horrible thing. It makes it harder to fire people being subsidized by our confiscated tax dollars. It paves the way for whole new generations of commies to continue controlling our college campuses and black-balling conservatives — all in the name of tolerance, free speech, and openness. The lefties fought the UNC Speaker Ban — blocking commies from UNC campuses — in the 1960s. Things were going to be different, we were told, as the ban fell. (*Tell that to the family of Mike Adams.*)
In 2010, we were promised that things were going to be different politically in North Carolina. No longer were lefty mobs going to get all their demands met. No longer would we have the big government agenda shoved down our throats. (*Yeah. Right.*)
As conservative speakers are bullied and run off UNC campuses, GOP appointees on the various governing boards sit silently. As the small contingent of center-right faculty get shouted down and harassed by their fellow state employees, the GOP appointees on the UNC boards sit silently. GOP control in Raleigh gave us a valuable opportunity to clean up the socialist cesspool on our state college campuses and actually teach things that can help students go on to successful careers.
Let’s look at the recent hubbub over hiring Nikole Hannah-Jones to the UNC School of Journalism. George Stephanopolous is actually considered a journalist these days. So, you can see how far the “profession” continues to fall. You understand why TV news ratings are suffering and newspapers are bleeding cash.
Miz Jones is the acclaimed author of something called The 1619 Project — which basically says America is terrible and it’s all white people’s fault. (No wonder she’s so beloved in Chapel Hill-Carrboro.). Critics — including The New York Times, which originally published her work — have been picking her end product apart. One of her most outrageous aggregious claims is that The American Revolution was fought to preserve slavery.
Hmm. The Revolution was fought from 1776 to 1781. Slavery was not abolished in British colonies and territories until 1833. So, if the war had never happened (or if the British had won), slavery would have still been around. At least until 1833.
So, the leftist noise machine –composed mainly of the Chapel Hill campus crazies and the dwindling Raleigh drive-bys — cranked up to demand that Jones be hired WITH tenure at UNC-Chapel Hill. (It’s my understanding that tenure is typically something EARNED through years of service in academia.)
There was a small amount of opposition vocalized by some members of the UNC governing boards. But a whole lot of RINO appointees — queasy about having the word “racist” screamed at them — joined with a Democrat minority to give EVERYTHING she wanted.
Jones’s 1619 Project is not going to stop with a NY Times article and a book deal. K-12 lesson plans are being developed. The kiddies are going to be treated to this leftist crap.
Someone. Anyone. Please explain how continuing to elect Republicans who cave at the very hint of leftist rioting and howling is good for us.
When will the lefties discover that William Davie was a plantation owner with about 100 slaves? Will the
Davie Poplar have to go like Silent Sam? With this liberal board it could happen. Who appointed these RINO’s?
I’m SO glad I’m NOT a alumnus of UNC.
Why anyone is sending their kid to Chapel Hill any more is beyond me. It has just become a cesspool of morons and it is more likely they will leave the school dumber than when they started. The worship of this entity needs to stop as they have become a farce.
The “fix” was in on Hannah Jones getting tenure. The NC GOP RINO establishment wanted this issue to “go away” and arranged for the UNC trustees to meet on the last day of their terms to once again sell out conservative principles. The UNC trustee chairman is Richard Stevens who is a close ally of Phil Berger. Stevens called the meeting and voted with the majority to give Hannah Jones tenure. Get the picture here? Remember this the next time Phil Berger sends you an email begging for money to fight the liberals.
Just like Phil Berger caved to the Gaystapo on HB 2 to make it go away. Berger was once a conservative force but he has been there too long and gone native in the Puzzle Palace. He is a poster boy for term limits, and especially term limits on the top leadership posts. NC had a long tradition of one term House speakers until Carl Stewart overturned that apple cart in 1979, and we need to go back to that both for the House speaker and the Senate President.
North Carolina needs a state version of the Senate Conservatives Fund, which funnels campaign money just to the conservative candidates in US Senate races.
When you see political stunts like these RINO Republicans pull, we have to ask the question: “Why even have a GOP majority in the legislature?” This Hannah-Jones debacle just demonstrates that these Republicans are just fake conservatives who have no principles. They disgust me.
Just as with K-12 government schools, the best means to oppose leftist colleges is to avoid them. Apprenticeships can provide entry to nearly all careers a they pay a you g person enough to be independent right out of high school. Both of our sons apprenticed as aircraft mechanics, got paid to learn. One went straight from there into vehicle engineering. The other builds jet engines in Durham for GE Aviation, who paid for his bachelors degree in aeronautical. Entrepreneurs don’t need any degrees – their customers couldn’t care less. Michael Dell, Bull Gates, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie and many of the Founding Fathers achieved success without college degrees. Avoid government schools and colleges and you suck the life out of the left.
So, the GOP appointees on our UNC boards think it is alright to grant tenure to a radical propagandist in the UNC School of Journalism. Why did they do this? Are our representatives not up to the task of making appointments? Are our appointees to shallow or too weak for the job?
We ordinary citizens aren’t asking for unreasonable things. We do think high standards should be on display within our institutions of higher learning. Propagandizing and dividing our students is a piss poor substitute for the pursuit of scholastic excellence by actually learning to think effectively.
We are being failed by our political representatives. The Republican majorities promised changes for the good. They have not delivered in our educational institutions. We have reached the end of the trail of false hope. We can expect more of the same in our journalism departments and other departments. More of the same in our teacher education programs, leading to more of the same in our K-12 teachers, and more of the same in all of our state schools.
With no feasible help in sight our only realistic course of action is to get our kids out of this mess. Make other arrangements. For some of us this is a real inconvenience. For others of us it is a real serious problem. It seems to me this is where we are.
Sadly, more and more of our young people will be attending the UNC system schools because our GOP representatives keep expanding them and increasing their funding. So it will just get worse. It’s crystal clear that the GOP legislature has no intention of bringing conservative reform to the UNC system resulting in more leftist indoctrination. The GOP legislature will continue to appoint liberal RINOs to the Board of Governors as they have done in the past. Believe me, it will get a lot worse.
I don’t know the members of the BOG by their pictures, except for Richard Stevens. Can someone provide a list of names of the Republicans who voted “Yes” (and “No”)?
We(All) should understand the issue is not Hannah Jones—rather all of the past Boards that have disregarded any common sense or obligation to their constituents that pay the bills!! they like so many across the Country continue to cave to the Media & group of those that choose to take down our Country’s pat acheivements.
PROBLEM is not Hannah Jones and her wild beliefs bit rather US-we the taxpaying citizens that should be making these decisions thru our elected and or appointed individuals)cannot in good conscience call any of them officials)– Let’s all get busy w/ a grass roots approach to correct so many of the problems we are living with today!!
Ron Margiotta