<p>Same thing happened a year or so ago at Howard…but no one seems to notice.</p>
<p>[qoute] I don’t think it’s a “liberal” stance to decide not to give some idiot racist crackpot as little media attention as possible.
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<p>Tell that to that Kramer guy… He was at a comedy club and lost it, ranting racist, crazy talk, and he has been plastered on every network, radio station, newspaper, etc. </p>
<p>He also stands to lose substantially because of his seemingly drunken (or drug induced) bizarre tirade.</p>
<p>This professor seems sober (albeit crazy) to me.</p>
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<p>Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of homosexual men who contracted the virus and died from AIDS.</p>
<p>Weird that conspiracy theories abound like this. Same crazy thinking as those who believe the US government had a hand in bringing down the Twin Towers. NUTS!!!</p>
<p>Well, I think we are giving this professor a lot more credit than he deserves. Michael Richards was once famous, a salient part of one of the most successful television shows in TV history. And the fact that a DVD of the show was coming out precisely at the time of his comments gave even greater cause to the press to focus on him. The same sort of thing applies to Mel Gibson, almost precisely, including the fact he had a few film projects in the works, one of which dealt with the holocaust, I think.</p>
<p>This professor guy is just someone practically no one has heard of. I sure had no idea of him before this. What has he done of note? Nothing. He seems to be one of those ethnocentrist folk that no one will know of except those who get into that sort of thing. So, while I am no great fan of the media (mostly because it is too filled with stuff that doesnt seem worth my time), I think it is unfair to take the media to task just because it failed to really give this little guy a lot of attention. Had Denzel Washington or Morgan Freeman said what Richards or Gibson said, but of whites, then it would be serious news.</p>
<p>Well, exactly!!! It’s disengenous not to concede that Gibson and Richards drew attention because of their celebrity. YOu can’t equate them with some no-name nutcase. Anyway, Fox News et al went to town with Ward Churchill and others of his ilk; this guy must be really far down the celebrity food chain to not even get their attention.</p>
<p>Very true - certainly celebrity had much more to do with the press attention that Kramer and Mad Max got. I have much more problem though with the idea that there are people out there like the professor who are “educating” our kids.</p>
<p>Mel Gibson and Richards play characters in movies and on TV, they aren’t standing in front of truly “captive” audiences and trying to brain wash them.</p>
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LOL. That’s pretty funny, and I think it is true, though Churchill had more standing and quite a bit more controversy surrounding him, even before his 911 comments, than this guy.</p>
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Yeah. Absolutely. As I shared in a prior post, to one degree or another, many folks share this guy’s fear. Schools should be teaching kids how to evaluate stuff critically, to rid ourselves of delusions. Not really sure if planning genocide fits here.</p>
<p>Well yes, Mel Gibson and Michael Richards are more high profile than Kamou Kambon. But is that justification for the intense firestorm of media coverage of their unguarded, ‘substance’ fueled comments? And is the fact that Kamou Kambon is merely a college educator who ONLY presented his prepared, pre-meditated comments on CSPAN grounds to give him a pass? It’s not like the CSPAN speech wasn’t on the national press radar; Fox, WorldNetDaily and the conservative blog world went nuts with it. There had to have been a deliberate blind eye turned by mainstream/liberal media.</p>
<p>The media MAKES these choices and they should be held accountable.</p>
<p>Mel Gibson saying things about Jews = ads = $$$
Michael Richards ranting = ads = $$$
Kamou Kambon saying…anything ≠ ads ≠ $$$</p>
<p>It’s really that simple.</p>
<p>I never cease to be amazed at the apparent need of the right wing to try to sell the story that they’re being victimized by a “liberal media conspiracy.” Some guy no one has ever heard of makes a deliberately provocative statement in front of - what - 20 people? at some conference no one ever heard or cared about. He’s a nobody. This is a non-event. I don’t care what race he is, what job he had for six months, or how intentionally moronic and inflammatory the line is that he’s peddling - he’s looking for his 15 seconds of fame and I couldn’t care less.</p>
<p>I also don’t care about the ravings of “celebrities” but I’m fully aware of the fact that the papparazzi-fueled lightweight media is obsessed with their every utterance, gesture, baby, pimple, whatever. And it’s got nothing to do with “politics” and everything to do with the low entertainment stadards of a large portion of society. Big deal. </p>
<p>It’s not that the evil “mainstream/liberal media” was failing to report actual “news” - it’s about the stupid right wing “blog world” types wanting to score some points by weeping crocodile tears about what victims they are, and how we should all be really, really excited about what the scary black man said. </p>
<p>Pathetic. On all counts.</p>
<p>It’s disappointing that UNC ever hired this nutcase in the first place. Regardless of their disclaimers, I’m sure he was getting a paycheck while he was there.</p>
<p>This guy was actually in a position to cause more damage by ‘teaching’ his hatred to impressionable students than the racist rants of some celebrities.</p>
<p>I wonder if this alleged ‘professor’ is ‘teaching’ anywhere else now.</p>
<p>not like bob jones u recieves federal money right, go direct the vemom towards them. When’s the last time the fair and balanced media went after them/</p>
<p>There were less than 20 people at that conference.</p>
<p>It’s possible that he was not as radical when the school hired him, but that those ideas geriminated over time. </p>
<p>That being said. How much of a news story is this really? The school denounced him, he’s no longer teaching there. He spoke before a very small group. The media doesn’t report on the actions of every racist in this country. Does his being a black racist make it more newsworthy?</p>
<p>The much bigger story is how many blacks really beleive that the white establishment is out to exterminate them. That was the context for this guy’s speech; it’s us or them. Ultimately, it’s a defeatist attitude and absolves people for taking responsibility for themselves.</p>
<p>I guess if (an otherwise little known) non-tenured visiting white or Asian professor at an american public university speaks at a conference which is broadcast on C-Span and states the following:</p>
<p>“And the one idea is, how we are going to exterminate black people because that in my estimation is the only conclusion I have come to. We have to exterminate black people off the face of the planet to solve this problem.”</p>
<p>“Now I dont care whether you clap or not, but Im saying to you that we need to solve this problem because they are going to kill us. And I will leave on that. So we just have to just set up our own system and stop playing and get very serious and not be diverted from coming up with a solution to the problem and the problem on the planet is black people.”</p>
<p>No doubt (per a number of posters on this thread) ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, NY TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, NEWSWEEK, TIME MAGAZINE and similar broadcast, cable, and print media -would NOT see this story as newsworthy -and certainly not a major story.</p>
<p>Just another nutjob professor with a doctorate degree teaching another college course</p>
<p>Who cares</p>
<p>Right - in the Land of Oz</p>
<p>You sure don’t give college kids much credit, do you?</p>
<p>Considering that we haven’t seen any stories of it, it’s hard to say either way. But why should that stop us from playing Jump to Conclusions.</p>
<p>“It’s disappointing that UNC ever hired this nutcase in the first place.”</p>
<p>UNC hired him? I thought he was working at NC State, different institution.</p>
<p>2dsdad:</p>
<p>You’re right - my mistake. I apologize.</p>
<p>It appears (as I’ve suggested above) that if this were a white or Asian professor teaching at an american university going on C-Span to advocate the extermination of the black race - the following 4 posters would be making the same excuses they’ve already made on this same thread - that is assuming (in this no doubt alternate reality world) a situation where ABC News, CNN, NY Times and the entire remainder of the major print, cable, and broadcast elite - effectively deemed the story non-newsworthy, along with Jesse Jackson and Rev Al Sharpton and so forth -who obviously would not consider this a signficant issue</p>
<p>EXCUSE #1 “This professor guy is just someone practically no one has heard of. I sure had no idea of him before this. What has he done of note? Nothing. He seems to be one of those ethnocentrist folk that no one will know of except those who get into that sort of thing.” </p>
<p>EXCUSE #2 “It sounds like he lost his job and a substantial amount of credibility, which is what I’d expect of any educator, of any race, who argued for the extermination of a people. If he had not suffered any consequences for his behavior, then yes, I suppose I’d welcome some media coverage so that people could take appropriate action against his employment, credibility, or popularity. But otherwise, I don’t find the rantings of a nutcase particularly newsworthy.”</p>
<p>EXCUSE #3 “Some guy no one has ever heard of makes a deliberately provocative statement in front of - what - 20 people? at some conference no one ever heard or cared about. He’s a nobody. This is a non-event. I don’t care what race he is, what job he had for six months, or how intentionally moronic and inflammatory the line is that he’s peddling - he’s looking for his 15 seconds of fame and I couldn’t care less.”</p>
<p>EXCUSE #4 “That being said. How much of a news story is this really? The school denounced him, he’s no longer teaching there. He spoke before a very small group. The media doesn’t report on the actions of every racist in this country.”</p>