Racial Bias in Academia??? That CAN'T be possible!!!

Of course it can be! Dr. Boyce Watkins, a Professor of Finance at Syracuse, breaks it down about how two schools, Emerson College and Harvard, tend to not grant tenure to minority professors. In detail:

"In 129 years, Emerson granted tenure to just three black scholars, with two of them having to sue in order to obtain the position. What is saddest is that this is a common theme around the country. One example would be the hiring practices of Elena Kagan, the recent nominee to the Supreme Court. Out of 29 tenured or tenure track hires at the Harvard Law School (where Kagan was dean), 28 of those hires under Kagan's watch happened to be white."

Of course, only getting tenure by suing! Good thing I'm not going on that career path, and I'm in an industry that doesn't discriminate (oh, wait...).

Anyway, another finding of the study revealed that there was a "lack of understanding" by faculty when it came to the historical discrimination of minorities in America (I thought they were supposed to be smart!). Watkins goes on to break it down intellectually, but I'll give you my two cents:

In my time at my alma mater, I had one more professor than Watkins ever did, but she taught Africana Studies! As is the case of the lack of understanding of the past, many Whites may not understand the effect of just having one person in an authoritative manner in a group setting that can relate to you, based on some aspects of culture that is associated with the same skin color. Many other Whites do get it, and they make sure that it doesn't become the case, seeing that as a threat to the power stranglehold they have in this society. On that thought...does anybody notice that these two schools are NOT in the South? We're talking two New England schools, in a democratic hotbed of the nation, with Democrats (or liberals) comprising of the faculty (remember, our Democratic President nominated Kagan for the Supreme Court). Dare I ask it...Democrats form the North can be racist???

Props to Emerson College for hiring an independent panel to determine these findings...but is this actually going to be a pathway toward proper changes?

Liberal Northerner Academic Elites: A surprising (to you maybe, but not me) reason why...America is Racist!