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June 23, 2006
by Mike S. Adams, Ph.D.
In the midst of important business negotiations (money talk), I declined to do a recorded TV interview for the WWAY Top News Story of the day, which was my satire. Instead, I offered the following statement intended to make things more exciting in the workplace when I return in mid-August:
The comment, which was expected to produce a blanket denial of racial discrimination by UNCW officials, appears to have had the intended effect. Here's what WWAY reported as my employer's response:
While WWAY carefully avoids "preferrential" treatment for serious journalism, UNCW officials are guilty of avoiding preferential treatment for the truth about the school's racial policies. In a letter posted on the UNCW website, Chancellor Rosemary DePaolo had this to say to those who want to do business with the university:
Despite the "all possible means" language, I assume that DePaolo would stop short of asking employers with only 9% minorities to kill a couple of white employees in order to exceed the 10% quota. Nonetheless, the point is established. UNCW uses racial quotas and meets them via the "preferential treatment of minorities" they so blandly deny. Now that Rosemary has expressed her "personal expectation" for a 10% rate of minority employment among contractors, maybe she will set her sights on a graduating class at UNCW that is actually 10% minority. It will take a lot of preferential racial treatment to offset that pesky beach three miles from campus -- the one that keeps attracting all of those diversity-impairing white students. But, in the meantime, UNCW has established a separate black graduation ceremony to hide the lack of blacks in the mostly-white-but-not-to-be-referred-to-as-"white" graduation ceremony. The medals given to blacks at the "black graduation" are not seen as a form of preferential treatment of minorities. Nor are UNCW officials concerned about holding black graduation in separate facilities. They insist that all educational facilities are "separate but equal." Note that in DePaolo's letter she refers to the university Diversity Initiative Plan (DIP) released in September of 2004. Among other things, the DIP (the report, not DePaolo) says that UNCW should:
All of the above goals show that when Rosemary DePaolo is not writing letters to contractors reminding them to engage in preferential treatment of minorities, UNCW administrators are practicing what they preach by also engaging in preferential treatment of minorities. When I first read that "UNCW officials deny any preferrential [sic] treatment of minorities," I considered offering my testimony concerning specific instances of preferential racial treatment I have witnessed first-hand in recruiting as a UNCW employee. I also planned to place a wager of $5000 dollars on the outcome of a polygraph examination if these "UNCW officials" dared to question the truthfulness of my accounts. But a cursory examination of the university Web site now shows conclusively that UNCW officials are lying just as they recently lied to the Wilmington Star News about the departure of our popular (and now former) men's basketball coach. Indeed, counting the number of black people on the UNCW campus is easier than counting the number of lies UNCW administrators have told since the onset of the DePaolo administration. Now that I think about it, I may really have to change my classroom policies this year. Instead of changing my position on lateness and cell phones in accordance with UNCW's racist policies, I think I'll change my policies on lying and cheating. In fact, as of now, I am abolishing the requirement that my students conduct themselves in an honest and truthful manner. I want each one to have the character and integrity of a UNC administrator.
©2006 by Mike S. Adams and reprinted with permission of the author.
Mike S. Adams was born in Columbus, Mississippi on October 30, 1964. While a student at Clear Lake High School in Houston, TX, his team won the state 5A soccer championship. He graduated from C.L.H.S. in 1983 with a 1.8 GPA. He was ranked 734 among a class of 740, largely as a result of flunking English all four years of high school. After obtaining an Associate's degree in psychology from San Jacinto College, he moved on to Mississippi State University where he joined the Sigma Chi Fraternity. While living in the fraternity house, his GPA rose to 3.4, allowing him to finish his B.A., and then to pursue a Master's in Psychology. In 1990, he turned down a chance to pursue a PhD in psychology from the University of Georgia, opting instead to remain at Mississippi State to study Sociology/Criminology. This decision was made entirely on the basis of his reluctance to quit his night job as member of a musical duo. Playing music in bars and at fraternity parties and weddings financed his education. He also played for free beer. Upon getting his doctorate in 1993, Adams, then an atheist and a Democrat, was hired by UNC-Wilmington to teach in the criminal justice program. A few years later, Adams abandoned his atheism and also became a Republican. He also nearly abandoned teaching when he took a one-year leave of absence to study law at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1998. After returning to teach at UNC-Wilmington, Adams won the Faculty Member of the Year award (issued by the Office of the Dean of Students) for the second time in 2000. After his involvement in a well publicized free speech controversy in the wake of the 911 terror attacks, Adams became a vocal critic of the diversity movement in academia. After making appearances on shows like Hannity and Colmes, the O'Reilly Factor, and Scarborough Country, Adams was asked to write a column for the Heritage Foundation's Townhall.com. Today he enjoys the privilege of expressing himself both as a teacher and a writer. In his spare time, he loves spending time with his wife, Krysten. He is also an avid hunter and reader of classic literature. E-mail: adams_mike@hotmail.com |
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