On February 26, a 19-year-old biracial student named Daisy Lundy claimed she had been attacked by a white man. Her story: as a candidate for Student Council president, she had decided to go out for “a little late-night campaigning at the library.” She walked to her car at around 2:00 a.m. to get her cell phone. The white attacker approached her, grabbed her by her ponytail and pushed her head against the car. During the assault, she claimed, the attacker said:
“No one wants a nigger to be president.”
This action is completely uncalled for. People who are self-serving do this by calling racist names and assaulting people (whether verbally or physically) are all but boorish, immature, unfeeling, and unthinking people. Daisy has every right to run for student council without fear of reprisals or attacks. But some people simply do not get it.
When people think they are special who believe they have every right to verbally assault everybody based on incongruities as justification for their behaviors, then that's when they run the risk of being extremists and that's dangerous.
Off the subject but if you read at the bottom of the UVA story link, I disagree about UVA's attempt to prosecute frat students for wearing blackfaces at a Halloween party when we have the film industry supporting this type of movie. What the frat brothers have done may be tasteless or even boorish but that's why we are protected by the first amendment. If somebody want to dress up like Bill Cosby to the hilt and act like him because he admires the guy, it should be taken as a compliment without fear of being singled out. This is true for those who want to dress up like Bill Clinton (minus the stained blue dress). But, a blackface is a different story that even Whoopi Goldberg laughed when Ted Danson did it but he got the short end of the stick by the public.
BTW, UVA Cavaliers lost to Wake on Sunday. The Cavaliers not only dropped their 10th straight ACC opener, but lost a precious home game. :-)
Life is good.
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