Saturday Morning Corrections to another blogger...

 Here:

1) Lorraine Hansberry is not a University of Wisconsin alum.  Coming up from Chicago, she spent two years in Madison, and got the hell out!  Greenwich Village was more to her liking, it seems...

2) The University of Wisconsin did not just up and generously name some theater buildings on campus after alum Frederic March.  (Didn't your read McWhorter's column?) He DONATED booku bucks to help fund those theaters, including paying for the lighting once built.  Don't deny history, even if (and I strongly agree...) this campus idea of plastering donors' names onto school buildings and programs is Sad!  (Lots of Jewish donors -- at Northwestern anyway -- tie their financial givings into program/building personal renamings.  Shows insecurity to me; very Trumpm-like too...)

3)  It's good that Althouse is responding to McWhorter.  She is using false facts to bolster her "arguments" though. A no-no.  Professors and administators like this will always strain to help the black side "win" at any costs, facts be damned...

 

For what I know of her work?  Unlike Mr.. March, Ms. Hansberry -- who never gave a donation dime to that White school -- would likely not want her name attached to the theater program at University of Wisconsin.

Go help the blackies some other way, ann?  Your condescension is showing again.

ADDED:  I'm not even a film person myself, but it is indeed condescending to assume that students today have no knowledge of Frederick March's role in film history, or haven't seen any movie classics, just because they are young and those works were out before their time.  The Internet is an equalizer -- no more hunting down old film showings.  Chances are, young people are smarter than you think, and have vast resources at their fingertips via the Internet.  You should not assume ignorance -- it only shows your own limited thinking that no film scholars and otherwise are studying earlier works.  God help us if the only education one received today was served up by women like Althouse who ensconced themselves in our ivory towers for so many years via tenure.

I think college men are already realizing that self-education -- with all the resources publicly available today -- might be worth more than the university PC crap still be defended, all these decades after they helped bury the Dead Old White Men works, like Marches.

ADDED:  I'd drop my corrections directly on the post, but under the latest iteration of the moderation policy, her husband culls out the critical comments before posting.  Personal attacks, vulgarities and off-topic comments are still permitted in, but no criticism of the blogger is permitted in the comments.  She grew too used to tenure protections in the classroom to be comfortable with open disagreement with her false facts now, it seems...

McWhorter for the Win!  Bring back March's name on campus, or risk being parodies as a PC "safe school" for football players and girls, mostly.  Is that what a college education at Wisconsin is being reduced to these days?  Sad.

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Althouse keeps piling on, demonstrating that she does not understand the issue McWhorter has identified:

AND: This isn't a trial of March where his accusers must meet a burden of proof and the question is whether he ought to be convicted of racism. That ought to fail because he has a constitutional right to be a racist. We wouldn't even go to trial. But if it did, there wouldn't be enough evidence to convict him. But the important point here is that the question in issue is whether his name ought to be on campus buildings today. What should the burden of proof be and is it met? That's the way to analyze this

It is a false controversy. (Re-read the column?) The UW KKK was NOT a racist organization.  There's simply no proof of that, and the actions and members before the organization was renamed.  Don't read into the facts with what you know from your own experience maybe?  Just stick with what is there, on paper and in practice.  You're really not helping black people creating mini-dramas, and labeling folks as racist -- which you are assuming from facts not in evidence -- and you're ignoring the writing of the earlier pre-UW Frederic March that McWhorter references, in accusing him of joining an allegedly racist club, of which there is no evidence.

 The UW KKK wasn't even accused of rallying at the niggerhead rock!  Much less participating in any racial exclusion, lynchings or beatings, or showing condescension to the blacks.  Exactly the opposite, in fact, as McWhorter points out...

 

Why this White UW Emeritus professor want to diss the real alum like March who were giving and of great moral character?  Because he a white man?  McWhorter to his credit doesn't want that done in his black name, it seems.  Go help other less fortunates, like yourself, to learn and grow, professor?  It's never too late to shut your mouth and learn from others.