What academics talk about when they talk about race

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Mary Grabar

 Here is one professor weighing in in a forum called “Brainstorm” on the number one issue facing America today: race, specifically, racism in the form of one isolated Justice of the Peace refusing to marry an interracial couple….and Rush Limbaugh.  The professor in typical humorless fashion ignores the origins of the “magic negro” comment, and ponders, going back and forth, back and forth, weighing all the evidence, but ultimately, and inevitably, concluding that Rush Limbaugh is a racist.  Oh, and of course, the firing of Marc Lamont Hill was due to a witch-hunt.  Hmm.  I need to contemplate this complex analysis.  Please excuse me while I go ponder and take two aspirin.

Tags: academics, Marc Lamont Hill, racism, Rush Limbaugh