Why let a running gag die easy, huh? This is a follow-up on this weekend’s post about a noose hanging incident at UCSD. Call me Nostradamus.
In an anonymous letter circulated on campus yesterday, the University of California San Diego student who hung a noose in the school library last week apologized for what she called a “mindless act and stupid mistake.
“I know what I did was offensive — regardless of my intentions — I am just trying to say I’m sorry,” read the letter, which was published in the student newspaper, the UCSD Guardian. “As a minority student who sympathizes with the students that have been affected by the recent issues on campus, I am distraught to know that I have unintentionally added to their pain.”
At least she claims to sympathize with them. Then she unleashes the weapons-grade stupid on us:
The student claims in her letter that she and her friends were playing with a rope when one of them tied it into a noose.
“I innocently marveled at his ability to tie a noose, without thinking of any of its connotations or the current racial climate at UCSD. I left soon after with one of my friends for Geisel to study, still carrying the rope,” she writes. “After a bit of studying I picked up the rope to play with, and ended up hanging it by my desk. It was a mindless act and stupid mistake. When I got up to leave, a couple hours later, I simply forgot about it.”
I swear Bob, you know I wouldn’t do that to my best friend! I tripped on the rug, my clothes fell off, and my penis accidentally slipped into your wife’s vagina again and again until we climaxed. It was a totally unintentional.
In response to the fallout from the incidents, Fox and her executive staff met with members of the campus Black Student Union for several hours yesterday as they continued their dialogue over how to attract and retain more African-American, Latino and other students that are not well-represented on campus. African-American students make up 2 percent of the UCSD undergraduate population. Around midday, Fox said the talks were going “quite well.”
Similar talks unfolded in Sacramento, where UC President Mark Yudof and UC Board of Regents Chairman Russell Gould met with students yesterday to discuss ways to combat intolerance. Yudof decried the UCSD incidents, along with similar recent incidents at UC Irvine and UC Davis.
“These are the worst incidents of racism I have seen on campuses in 20 years,” Yudof told about 100 students who were staging a sit-in.
I’ve got to be honest with you, Mark. If a minority female hanging a noose in a library in an effort to fan the flames of identity politics is the worst incident of racism you’ve seen on campuses in 20 years it’s pretty safe to say there is nothing for protected racial classes to fear at UC. And it begs a solution – elimination of identity politics. But instead you can’t run fast enough in the other direction.
Schmucks. Why not just let minority students who feel threatened carry guns on campus? That’d be good for some blue-on-blue theatrics.
