| Topic: |
Sociology > Education |
| User: |
"BroJack" |
| Date: |
01 Dec 2003 04:54:23 PM |
| Object: |
Aggie Conservatives Blamed For Lousy Football Team |
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110004367
Conservatives Beat Aggies?
The Texas A&M football team has just finished a dreadful season, going
4-8 overall and 2-6 in the Big 12 conference, including a 77-0
humiliation at the University of Oklahoma. Texas A&M's athletic
director, Bill Byrne, has a novel theory as to why his school is
suffering athletically. He blames the Young Conservatives of Texas
A&M, a student group, which held one of those "affirmative action bake
sales":
"Free speech is not an issue for me, and differing political beliefs
are not an issue for me, because I believe that reasonable people can
disagree. But I'm disappointed over the national attention that Texas
A&M University received recently because of a few individuals and
their idea of a protest.
(COMMENT: Hey coach, Maybe white students are tired of being treated
like second class citizens. Maybe you'd prefer that they engage in
violent protest like black youth and which the leftist media refers to
as "unrest." -- BroJack)
The Texas A&M Bake Sale plays right into the hands of those who
recruit against us, in both athletics and in the general student
population. They will use something like this to suggest that Texas
A&M does not have a welcoming environment.
(COMMENT: A lot of white kids would agree with you that it doesn't
have a welcoming environment. -- BroJack)
We all know that is not true. Unfortunately, a few individuals
represented 45,000 students and an entire community in precisely the
wrong light. My hope is that those of you who have a chance to
influence public opinion will speak out against anything like this
that discredits Texas A&M University. It causes me to redouble my
efforts to do exactly that."
(COMMENT: Talk about excusemaking and passing the buck ... Whew! --
BroJack)
BroJack
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