There You Go Again

The A.C.(anonymous commenter) is at it again. Actually, he's my second troll. The first one apparently raptured up to the awaiting spaceships hiding in the Pleides. Anyway, A.C has this annoying habit, except for one time, of waiting until the posts that respond to him/her are off the front page of the blog. It's annoying because others can't get involved. A.C. suggests that he may be the black son-in-law of or the other daughter of SueHank Martinsen. Misdirection nevers works. S/He also suggest that I read a book by Tony Brown, it's this one:

This is from Tony Brown's webpage & while I understand we live in the age of non-irony, I couldn't have said it any better myself. The Tony Brown that A.C. so wants me to read also took a job at Hampton University. This portrays the type of institution Tony Brown apparently supports.

As discontent among the parents continued to mount, more and more students stood in front of the door wearing paraphernalia that blatantly revealed that they were in support of the student activists, and more people grabbed pickets and duck tape and joined the free speech demonstration. The administrators seemed flustered and nervous as they had to continually defend the legitimacy of their Kangaroo Court. It was so obvious that Hampton was a lot more accustomed to handling things in ways that were unapologetically authoritarian and not subject to many of the rules we take for granted.

Students, who only days ago wouldn't sign apetition because they feared harsh repercussion, now boldly stood in the defense of the activists against campus police. Teachers who were previously silenced by the privacy obligations of the school now spoke to their students in class and urged them to become involved. Black students from other schools became more involved in the antiwar struggle at their own schools. The students at Hampton for the first time saw someone stand up against the university and they saw the university do all it could to back down. At the end of the hearing, the Dean of Men could not restrain himself from questioning me about the article Corporate Plantation. Before I had a chance to answer the Dean of Students interjected that it was not appropriate.

I know that A.C. & his/her ilk enjoy the notion of plantation. Just check out, as I've noted before, SueHank Martinsen telling Ashland, WI's, Daily Press how happy his workers are. [UPDATE: Except for the one that just gave him hell, quit, & apparently spit on SueHank.] A.C. might also want to go here for more information on Tony Brown's bosses/friends. Again, the ReThug party is a racist party. & it doesn't matter what skin color you have. It's intersting that the extremely small group of black ReThugs has absolutely no impact in the black population in this country. That's why bringing Tony Brown up is such a laugher.

The Hampton Model as Apparatus of Exploitation

Some of the Hampton police who harassed us said that they just “had to do their job.” Just for clarification, their bosses are the University President Dr. William R. Harvey, who is a Bush appointee to the Federal National Mortgage Association, and a Board of Trustees bounteous with Bush-Cheney campaign beneficiaries. A close friend of President Harvey especially relevant to this discussion is the commencement speaker he selected this past spring, Alphonso Jackson, Bush’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Jackson has made a priority of cutting back access by poor black people to subsidized Section 8 housing. Shortly after hurricane Katrina, Jackson told the Houston Chronicle that most of the black population of New Orleans should not be allowed to return, and that New Orleans in the future will be a predominantly white city. The University president has often shown this same contempt for the Black community. A recent example is when he was asked by a few members of our group at a Town Hall Meeting, the reason why the school did not have an AIDS awareness group. President Harvey responded that we probably did not need one because everyone knows about AIDS. The girls did not accept that answer because they knew that AIDS disproportionately affected Blacks, and the Hampton Roads area was in the Top ten AIDS infected areas…therefore they started a campus AIDS group the next week.

Emphasis added.

More on Tony Brown's version of freedom:

News & Notes with Ed Gordon, December 7, 2005 · Seven Hampton University students have been punished for participating in a nationwide protest calling for President Bush to be removed from office. Commentator Lester Spence says Hampton's campus speech rules are out of step with the University's mission. Spence is an assistant professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University.

So, A.C., why don't you engage the origninal four readers when they don't have to search the archives for your sorry ass. It would be the honorable thing, oh, I forgot....