SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 10:18 P.M. ET:

AND NO ONE SEEMS TO CARE – FROM THE BALTIMORE SUN:  Aleasha Bowie was recuperating at home from a surgical procedure Thursday morning when she heard a bang, and then a bang, bang, bang.
She screamed for her brother, who was just about to leave for work, then rushed to the front of the house to peer out the window, she said. On the corner outside, she saw a young man — a guy she’d watched grow up in the neighborhood — slumped on the street.  The 21-year-old man, who was not identified by police, was the 319th homicide victim in the city in 2017, tipping the annual count beyond the 318 killings that occurred in Baltimore in all of 2016.  That means this year is now Baltimore’s second-deadliest on record on a per-capita basis, with a month left to go. The record was set in 2015, when there were 344 homicides.  Since there's no anti-cop story here, the mainstream media doesn't seem to care.

ANOTHER GREAT MOMENT IN EDUCATION – FROM COLLEGE FIX:   The student newspaper at Evergreen State College has a section in its opinion pages described as “for people of color by people of color.”  “This should be a place where we can be us without it being overshadowed by the dark cloud that is living under white supremacy and having to see things from a white perspective. This is why when we do cover these issues it will be in the context and from the perspective of POC and POC only,” according to the section’s editors as they reintroduced it to readers in September.  The anonymous column, known as “POC Talk,” debuted in the bi-weekly Cooper Point Journal last year and returned this fall to the newspaper’s pages following racial unrest that erupted at the public university this past spring.  “Dear White people, please take a step back, this isn’t brown-people-answer-white-people’s-questions-hour, we’re asking specifically for submissions from POC,” the section’s editors added in their September intro. “As being told no seems to be a difficult concept for some of y’all I await your emails about the Irish, how the term white fragility is mean (great example of white fragility) and how we need to view people through a color-blind lens (just lol). You will 100% not get a response!!!”  How brilliant.  How intellectual.  And I'm sure many "white" professors will go along with it.  I have four words for these child revolutionaries:  physics, chemistry, math, engineering.  Study those and you'll be amazed how quickly your problems will be eased.  There is nothing better than to be needed.

TERRIFIC PROFESSORS – AND THEY DO EXIST – FROM COLLEGE FIX:  Located in the South Bronx, Hostos Community College is in the middle of the poorest urban congressional district in the United States.  Hostos aims to improve the quality of life for its 6,500 students who seek to escape poverty through education.  In that spirit, Hostos professors Gregory Marks and Andrea Fabrizio are spearheading a unique initiative to broaden the horizons of students at Hostos. The two English instructors, along with other faculty members in the school’s English department, say they understand the importance of teaching these students about the greatest thinkers Western Civilization has to offer.  With that, these professors are at the helm of a project to bring elements of Columbia University’s 100-year-old core curriculum to Hostos.  “We feel as though the Core builds on the Hostos Mission,” Marks told The College Fix via email, “which is geared toward the South Bronx community. It is a diverse community in an underserved area of NYC. We felt that these students, who struggle with fundamental academic skills of reading and writing, deserve to be exposed to the same material and human questioning as students attending selective private colleges such as Columbia University.”  Among the most important goals of the program, according to Fabrizio, is “encouraging thoughtful, self-knowing reflection on these foundational texts among our students.”  That's what an education is.  I hope these professors aren't shut down by the usual red groups.

December 1, 2017