Morehouse English prof just doesn’t get it
Posted on November 12, 2009 by Mary Grabar
Morehouse English professor Stephane Dunn, writing in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution today, implores Morehouse men to pull up their pants and dress appropriately when they attend her class. I say ‘hurray’ to Morehouse for its new dress code and to Professor Dunn for speaking up.
Because she is a “sister,” Dunn is allowed to command her students to “’pull those pants up, Mr. So-and-So,’” without being hauled before the P.C. panel and subjected to an inquisition. I doubt I would be called back to teach as an adjunct should one of my students complain about such a command. I would be charged with not only bad “customer service,” but racial insensitivity. (Of course, I would also like to be able to tell all students to yank out their piercings, sit up straight, etc.)
So I was expecting that this professor, who envisions herself before a classroom of conservatively dressed gentlemen scholars, would be teaching the Great Works. I would expect her scholarship to focus perhaps on the author that W.E.B. Du Bois was so enchanted by—William Shakespeare. I thought she would be upholding the canon that is so rapidly being eliminated and replaced by popular culture. (My colleague Mark Bauerlein in Minding the Campus reports on the disappearance of positions for those who specialize in great authors like Shakespeare–or John Milton, as I did for my master’s thesis.)
So, what would the well-dressed Morehouse man read in “Sister” Professor Dunn’s class? Well, if her book is any indication, it would be on the theme of “Baad Bitches & Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Films.” Professors tend to write on the subjects they teach. Does anybody see a disconnect?
Tags: baggy pants, college, dress code, English classes, Morehouse, Shakespeare
Comments (1)
It is very sad to see the slow death of morality, decency, and respect within American society. What makes it even worse is how the liberals have “classified” moral and decent behavior as “acting white” for anyone not Caucasian. The advance of the secular “progressive humanism” movement has not only worsened this deterioration of American society, but promotes it through their relative view of right and wrong in the acceptible norms of behavior.
I’m glad to see and hear that conservatism is not dying in America, though. Certainly last year’s election fiasco has awaken grass-roots Americans to the liberal godlessness that is infecting our government and the classrooms! God help our country because we need His help now more than ever.
Keep up the great work, Ms Grabar!