INCREDIBLE – AT 9:05 A.M. ET:   It takes incredible courage for a college professor to tell the truth these days, if the truth contradicts the leftist party line.  At Duke University, where political correctness is the order of the day, one professor is trying, and the result is predictable.  From the College Fix: 

An 80-year-old Duke University professor is under fire for arguing Asian-Americans have integrated into America better than African-Americans.

Political science professor Jerry Hough posted the controversial statements on a New York Times editorial headlined “How Racism Doomed Baltimore.”

Hough argued:

This editorial is what is wrong. The Democrats are an alliance of Westchester and Harlem, of Montgomery County and intercity Baltimore. Westchester and Montgomery get a Citigroup asset stimulus policy that triples the market. The blacks get a decline in wages after inflation.

But the blacks get symbolic recognition in an utterly incompetent mayor who handled this so badly from beginning to end that her resignation would be demanded if she were white.The blacks get awful editorials like this that tell them to feel sorry for themselves.

In 1965 the Asians were discriminated against as least as badly as blacks. That was reflected in the word “colored.” The racism against what even Eleanor Roosevelt called the yellow races was at least as bad.

So where are the editorials that say racism doomed the Asian-Americans. They didn’t feel sorry for themselves, but worked doubly hard.

I am a professor at Duke University. Every Asian student has a very simple old American first name that symbolizes their desire for integration. Virtually every black has a strange new name that symbolizes their lack of desire for integration. The amount of Asian-white dating is enormous and so surely will be the intermarriage. Black-white dating is almost non-existemt because of the ostracism by blacks of anyone who dates a white.

It was appropriate that a Chinese design won the competition for the Martin Luther King state. King helped them overcome. The blacks followed Malcolm X.

As news of the comments spread via social media, the professor was called “racist” and “ignorant.” The university also denounced the professor’s views to several news outlets, saying “the comments were noxious, offensive and have no place in civil discourse.”

Compare please to the vile comments made every day by racial agitators, leftists, Palestinian causists, and similar personalities.

But Hough, who is on administrative leave as part of a retirement plan, largely stands by them, The News & Observer reports.

“I don’t know if you will find anyone to agree with me,” he said in an email to The News & Observer. “Anyone who says anything is a racist and ignorant as I was called by a colleague. The question is whether you want to get involved in the harassment and few do. I am 80 and figure I can speak the truth as I see it. Ignorant I am not.”

COMMENT:  Cheers to Professor Hough.  If African American students will only listen, they can gain by what he is saying.

Asian Americans come to this country, many speaking not one word of English.  Five years later their children are at the top of their classes...in English. 

My family and I used to go to a Vietnamese restaurant in Charlottesville, Virginia.  At a table, just inside the front door, we usually spotted a textbook and a violin.  One of the daughters of the owners would wait on tables, then, on breaks, study or practice.  That's how you make progress.

Yet no fashionable professor or journalist points out the barriers Asian Americans might still face.  They are not one of the groups acceptable on the left...because they succeed!

May 18, 2015