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...wake of his newfound independence. In Doughty’s opinion, the music industry mass-markets an image of danger that is problematic not so much because it is truly dangerous, but because it is in fact absolutely tame. When he calls “wanting to break stuff...a dumb way to interpret an emotional response to music,” he by no means intends this as a condemnation of bands like Nirvana, AC/DC or the Ramones. Instead, he argues convincingly that fans’ so-called “danger response” is an illusion...
...level it is, is an assumption, especially when we haven’t even read it. Think of Lani Gunier. When she was supposed to be the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Bill Clinton and those that sunk her nomination in Congress never read her stuff. There is an assumption, perhaps, that black excellence is exceptional or somehow out of place or outside the norm. There is that notion that black excellence is not supposed to be too widespread. I think that when we position people like Cornel West and Skip Gates as the sort of paradigmatic examples...
...that on C-SPAN?!” But the fact of the matter is that doesn’t mean he is any less excellent. It just means that he is using the platform he has because he has earned that space, because he has done a lot of stuff that is quite excellent. He is using that space to raise issues that other people might not raise. And as someone who likes to throw bombs and talk shit myself, I think I’m glad he has one of those platforms, and that it?...
...raise the kind of questions he does. I’ve never heard him say anything vindictive, hurtful, spiteful, anti-American, any of these things that people charge him with. And I think some people are quick to charge him with these things because they have some stuff going on that makes them uncomfortable with the fact that we have a black as a University professor. I will say that. There are racist white alums who don’t want Cornel West to teach at this school, much less in the position that...
DeAraujo: I think you can’t completely fault Summers. Frankly, a lot of professors act like prima donnas, and I think they are the ones with thin skin and fragile egos. Rudenstine deferred a lot to the faculty—that is the way he did stuff. This way isn’t wrong, however. I don’t think we can just chalk this up as a character flaw...