You may recall that several weeks ago Nick Kristoff, intensely culture-sensitive essayist for The New York Times, donning a straight (but not anti-gay) face, said in a bizarre piece he wished he had not been born white.
Darned white guys have caused a disproportionate amount of trouble on earth ever since Eden was a baby garden, he said in choosing a measured, impressively restrained tone.
Courtesy of the website collegefix.com comes a heartwarming yarn this afternoon that would tickle the cockles of the hearts of the Frankenstein mullahs that President Obama has been sleeping with the past few weeks.
At broadminded Santa Barbara City College, a clutch of mysteriously offended non-whites and Caucasian I-Wish-I-Weren’t-White types has caused a scene that surely was lifted from an oldtime comic book.
These artificial, limp-necked protesters will kill themselves once they leave City College and see how the real world operates.
Let us have this discussion sotto voce so that the Faintly Fragile among us will not take anything more serious than umbrage at what we are about to say.
What happened to renew memories of those good ol’ Injun Wars that pockmarked the 19th century?
Daub a little warpaint on our cheeks and listen up:
Students in the 4-D Art, Time-Based Media class at Santa Barbara City College built a large, fairly complex wooden teepee as an assignment.
Possibly because the sophistication of the structure was beyond the ken of ol’ Indian fighters, or beyond the modest cerebral capacity of descendants of the Washington Redskins, Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves and other such savages, a tiny swath of delicate contemporary Indians and non-Indians protested.
Here is a hard-nosed Indian who could be a tutu-wearing cheerleader for any of the teams noted above:
And we quote from this politically correct speciman:
“As a Native American, I’m appalled by the insensitiveness by this crude display,” posted Angel Solorzano, whose Facebook page says he works at the school. “A Teepee is something that belongs to Native American heritage. I do not condone this as something artistic, but a mockery of my culture.”
The Indians-Redskins-Braves enrollment at Santa Barbara City College is 1 percent. If it were 2 percent, we might have to resume sleeping with our tomahawks.
Peer pressure forced the school to close down or burn down the model teepee.
The reason: Political correctness and boobs like this faculty doll baby who described the killing of the teepee thusly:
“That’s civility, not censorship,” said Tina Foss, an American Ethnic Studies instructor.
