http://wvwnews.net/story.php?id=7625
Professor Gates’s black studies field, and similar ones such as feminist studies, queer studies, and Hispanic studies, have steered too many callow students away from hard academic subjects and taught them to wallow in self-pity, to carry a chip on their shoulders, and to see the United States as an imperialistic, oppressor nation.
More consequential than Professor Gates’s racist rant against a Cambridge police officer is the core rot in American education introduced by his academic specialty, black studies, which is an excrescence of 1960s and 1970s student radicalism.
Harvard’s Professor Henry Lewis Gates is, of course, not solely responsible for the muddle-headed mess that is American education today. But the politically-correct, identity-politics education, of which he is a champion, has destroyed the historical purpose of education, leaving us an ignorant and divided people.Student radicals of the late 1960s and 1970s demanded “relevant” subjects, but those subjects gave them no useful knowledge or skills, thus leaving them outside the mainstream of employment and contributing to their bitterness and feelings that they were victims of discrimination.