Thanks for the response, X.
Yes, I am a retired professor with all the requisite initials after my name. I don't make a big thing of it. I take comfort in your impression of me, as I not an elitist and always prefer to be thought of as one of "The People," as it has been put so charmingly on this thread.
Your staccato answers suggest that you are not interested in too much further discussion of my questions. I wasn't intending to offer you "anecdotes" about my experiences. I was a member of the university rank and tenure committee for most of my career, and chairman of it several times. Our committee passed on all hiring above the Assistant Professor level, and all promotion and tenure decisions. So I would be in a position to speak with some authority about the issue of what role race played in these decisions. You may, of course, still regard that as anecdotal.
I taught in the Business Administration area, and lectured and gave seminars throughout the world, including less developed countries where attendees were often of color . So I would be able to speak with a degree of authority on the issue of racism in that context, also. However, since I don't have any experience except my own, you might regard that as anecdotal also.
Your comments weave in and out of what exists now and what existed 40, 160, or 200 years ago. It would be hard for me to know in what era I should engage you in further argument. So I won't take on the task.
As to 200 years of no people of color as president or vice-president ... African nations have been independent for one-quarter of that time. Do you expect to see white people being elected as presidents of those countries in the relatively near future? |
