In addition to a “Black Graduation Recognition Celebration” May 5 (the 35th such time that this event was hosted) and a “Lavender Graduation Celebration” for LGBT-identifying students May 9, in the spring semester of 2023, the university organized social justice workshops that focused on subjects such as “white fragility” and “racial battle fatigue.”
Broader American culture has gripped onto the “I have a dream!” speech to hold up his ideals of a color-blind nation. But that was just one speech at one moment in time. Many of the ideas he espoused were actually precursors to today’s DEI, woke, affirmation action and racial set asides. He was all for reparations, on the grounds that reparations would also help poor white people, because poor white people were actually just being exploited by rich white people (which starts to go into his Marxist ideas, which today’s BLM Marxists are a direct descendant). MLK would have been… Read more »
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
I hope MLK is watching! Has to be having a &*($ fit!
Broader American culture has gripped onto the “I have a dream!” speech to hold up his ideals of a color-blind nation. But that was just one speech at one moment in time. Many of the ideas he espoused were actually precursors to today’s DEI, woke, affirmation action and racial set asides. He was all for reparations, on the grounds that reparations would also help poor white people, because poor white people were actually just being exploited by rich white people (which starts to go into his Marxist ideas, which today’s BLM Marxists are a direct descendant). MLK would have been… Read more »