Rutgers professor speaks out

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Expect this guy to get crucified by the media today for his comments about recruiting minorities:

TRENTON, N.J. -- A longtime critic of Rutgers University's drive into big-time sports is being criticized over a newspaper article comment that university officials have branded as racist.

At the end of a New York Times article Wednesday about William C. Dowling's failed efforts to get Rutgers to turn away from high-stakes athletics, the tenured English professor responded to arguments that athletic scholarships provide opportunity to low-income, minority students.

"If you were giving the scholarship to an intellectually brilliant kid who happens to play a sport, that's fine," Dowling said. "But they give it to a functional illiterate who can't read a cereal box, and then make him spend 50 hours a week on physical skills. That's not opportunity. If you want to give financial help to minorities, go find the ones who are at the library after school."

Rutgers Athletic Director Bob Mulcahy told local newspapers that Dowling's comment was "a blatantly racist statement."

In a statement released by the university, Rutgers President Richard McCormick called it "inaccurate and inhumane."

"It also has a racist implication that has no place whatsoever in our civil discourse," McCormick said in the statement.

A Rutgers spokesman said Thursday he did not know if Dowling would face any sanctions.

Contacted Thursday, Dowling defended his statement, saying that Mulcahy and McCormick had taken it out of context, that he was directly answering a question related to minorities.

"If someone has a way to answer that question without mentioning race, I would like to hear it," said Dowling, who called the officials' accusation of racism the "cheapest rhetorical ploy I've ever heard."

Dowling, who said he was arrested in the South during the 1960s for work in the civil rights movement, said McCormick was racist for running an athletics program that exploited minorities.

"None of these kids would have been able to get into Rutgers if they hadn't been able to throw something or kick something or slam dunk something," Dowling said.

Rutgers' aspirations to elite status in college athletics, most notably in football, have provoked considerable controversy over the years in the university community, with some arguing that the university should spend less and compete at a lower level. And last year, the university axed six of its smaller intercollegiate sports teams amid state budget cuts, even as more money was poured into the football program.

The investment in football has paid off in unaccustomed success for the team, a sold-out stadium and major increases in sales of licensed merchandise. Last year's team went 11-2, won a bowl game and finished No. 12 in the final AP poll. This year's team is 3-0 and ranked No. 10 in the country.

Rutgers athletic officials say the football team's 2.7 grade-point average is on par with the university as a whole.

An NCAA academic progress report for the 2003-04 to 2005-06 school years listed the Rutgers football team's academic progress as being in the 80th to 90th percentile for Division I football programs.

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Here goes the thought police again.
 

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how can it be interpreted as racist? everyone knows that he is right... wtf!
 
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What exactly does "racist" mean? Seems like a perjorative meant to intimidate if you ask me.
 

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Driving home this afternoon I tuned toESPN and heard the end of Mike Tirico's show and the beginning of Steven A. Smiff's program.Patrick and Olbermann were bad enough, now we get these two. The loud, brash, stupid, and obnoxious Smiff said the comments made by Dowling warrant his FIRING!So much for tolerance. No brownie points were given for his civil rights activism in the past. Criticise a Negro in any way and you are toast in modern America.
 

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The overheated reaction to the eminently and obviously reasonable statements of this prof is proof positive as to how low we have sunk. And apparently *nobody* in the media is defending this guy!
 
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We absolutely must start protecting ourselves and our own.

Non-Whites are encouraged to act with extreme violence against us, while the mere mention of a fact or a word by a White - no matter how liberal or traitorous against his or her own race in the past - results in ruined reputations, lost jobs, destroyed lives. Cultural Marxists have succeeded in turning White women against their own, the only men who will die to protect them if need be. And now I have read that we need more pro-black propaganda in media to combat racism (as well as reconditioning - "...Thus, reducing prejudice may require more than simply adopting egalitarian values. Instead, such change may require reconditioning of the negative associations that people hold..." see this crap )



There are many vital skills that we must learn, while time runs short.
 

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America's entire public school system, once among the most respected and effective in the world, has become a catastrophic morass of failure and stupidity.

I blame this on the fact that the school systems in many states have shifted their focus and resources away from white students (and asian students, who at least have the decency to be academically successful) and try with increasing futility to make academically competitive blacks and latinos.

I'm sorry, but calling a circle a box will not actually make the circle a box. Telling white people that they are racist simply for telling the truth doesn't invalidate the truth.

And the simple fact of the matter is, you can put the richest black and Mexican kids -- who've been feted and pampered by the system that does everything to help them compete -- into direct competition with the poorest Tokyo kids, or Berlin white kids, and those white and asian kids will EAT THEM ALIVE all day long, no doubt.
 

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yanling said:
America's entire public school system, once among the most respected and effective in the world, has become a catastrophic morass of failure and stupidity.


All according to plan. Nobody in this world with common sense and grey matter would expect anything but total disaster by inundating our educational systems with Negroes.
 

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I hope prof. Dowling has tenure. If he does, he just might say more things of this nature. After all, his job is secure. I think if they try to get rid of a tenured prof, they'd have to pay him enough to make him finacially secure for the rest of his life. The bad thing is that the powers that be wouldn't care about that because the money they'd be using is taxpayer money anyway and throwing away taxpayer money in NJ never bothered our authorities before.

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PC from a liberal's point of view being billed as a self esteem builder for the losers of the world. Phony degrees for double digit IQ types who have no business being in college except to play sports. Dowling should have asked for the SAT scores of all the players, but in reality he is nothing but a high priest of PC himself suffering a bout of depression that his religion (PC) is a loser. Pity Dowling very little because he got what he asked for.
 

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What you say is true Wile, but at least a few of these sellouts are seeing the truth and leaving the church.
 

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wile said:
What exactly does "racist" mean? Seems like a perjorative meant to intimidate if you ask me.
Yes it's an old fashion form of shouting down. Too bad this guy is an ex-freedom rider, who risked his neck to "save" the fools who are shouting him down.....
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Rutgers has dropped over 500 classes since their push for football greatness. Shiano is the highest paid stateworker in jersey.
 

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yanling said:
America's entire public school system, once
among the most respected and effective in the world, has become a
catastrophic morass of failure and stupidity.

I blame this on the fact that the school systems in many states have
shifted their focus and resources away from white students (and
asian students, who at least have the decency to be academically
successful) and try with increasing futility to make academically
competitive blacks and latinos.

I'm sorry, but calling a circle a box will not actually make the circle a
box. Telling white people that they are racist simply for telling the
truth doesn't invalidate the truth.

And the simple fact of the matter is, you can put the richest black
and Mexican kids -- who've been feted and pampered by the system
that does everything to help them compete -- into direct
competition with the poorest Tokyo kids, or Berlin white kids, and
those white and asian kids will EAT THEM ALIVE all day long, no
doubt.

Wow, you're full of the hate, aren't you?

What an Uncle Tom sellout.

White people will never accept you.
 

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jaygatsby said:
White people will never accept you.

He actually did pretty well around here, until asked to provide proof for one of his assertions. Hasn't been seen since.
 

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White Shogun said:
jaygatsby said:
White people will never
accept you.

He actually did pretty well around here, until asked to provide proof
for one of his assertions. Hasn't been seen since.

Maybe he went back to China with his tail between his legs. Or
maybe he took his ball and went home.
 

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jaygatsby said:
White Shogun said:
jaygatsby said:
White people will never
accept you.

He actually did pretty well around here, until asked to provide proof for one of his assertions. Hasn't been seen since.

Maybe he went back to China with his tail between his legs. Or maybe he took his ball and went home.

Yeah. He said that he supported white athletes and civilization on pro-Asian message boards, and he was asked to provide a link where he did so. He never did. And that was the last we heard from him. Notice his account is still active, so he can still post anytime he likes.
 
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