Oh, the racialist merriment of the South Orange County Community College District never end! We've previously written about Saddleback College's gaucho-masquerading-as-bandito, and now Irvine Valley College has gotten into the simplistic-approach-to-race game so endemic in Orange County. IVC spokesperson Diane Oaks sent out a campus-wide email yesterday advertising the juco's Feb. 24 Black History Month celebration. Attached was a flyer (above) that is…interesting.
For starters: exactly how is Mahatma Gandhi black?
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Yes, Gandhi inspired the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, but there are hundreds of other African-Americans that most folks would put on a poster of notables before the martyr for a Black History Month poster. Whoever made this flyer didn't even have to look far for another face.
Speaking of faces: two uses of President Barack Obama in the same flyer? Dr. Martin Luther King deserves the two-plug treatment; Obama, on the other hand, is lucky he even merits a mention in Orange County that doesn't involve some Birfer bullshit.
What's worst about these efforts, though, is the urging of students to leave their thoughts about Black History Month on a “graffiti wall.” You can make the argument such a move stereotypes blacks as criminals, but my bigger concern is that dumbass coeds will leave nasty remarks about African-American students on it–such harassment has happened at Saddleback College in the not-so-distant past, with less of an invitation.
But the one part of the flyer that's not foolish? Soul food for the IVC celebration. Drudge and his pals might've tried to make a big scandal of NBC serving such grub for their Black History Month celebration, but come on: you're not going to eat pizza for St. Patrick's Day, or kielbasa on Cinco de Mayo. Now, let's see if IVC can sneak in Jackie Robinson into the flyer…
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