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Bagpipes, etc...
...world wants that life-power all to itself. Therefore it coins money, makes wars, divides itself into status groups etc. But comedy, tragedy, music, philosophy, history and politics are all expressions of the reality that power and mortal men alike are to serve life. So your education is meant to give you insights into this cardinal fact that every other institution you encounter must desperately hide because it cannot destroy. An individual can encompass the whole only in dream--or in the heartache of life, which is a version of dream, but a version of dream we are obligated...
Although you titled the article "Beyond Witches & Ouijas," you didn't get beyond these topics yourselves. For starters, numerous references were made to classes on witchcraft, UFOs, etc., which are only two of the 15 courses offered by the committee. After a passing reference to the class on Mexican corridos (which, by the way, are ballads, not stories, as you stated), such as African oral traditions, Ice-landic sagas, Celtic heroes and folklore theory were basically ignored...
Some liberals might argue: "We do have a common foundation. It's our commitment to the disenfranchised, the marginalized, etc. "But the self-evident idea, "Oppression is bad," is no solid foundation on which to build a movement. Given such a mission, many problems and doubts remain...
...issue isn't one of competence with regard to topics important to people of color--white professors can and should teach ethnic groups' histories, literature, etc., and advise their students of color--but of breadth. Most minority faculty can illuminate their presentations of, for example, American history with a parallel account of how this history was perceived by members of an outgroup, being a member of such an outgroup, whereas a white professor probably could not. And, being of color, minority faculty can also provide a degree of empathy to students of color that white professors, probably not having experienced...