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A commented on the blog John in Carolina posted the following:(http://johninnorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2007/12/prof-mungers-interesting-comparison.html)

Professor Munger:

It is a breath of fresh air to find a Duke student or professor who makes arguments based on verifiable facts, and is willing to listen to and respond articulately to ideas with which you may not agree.

I have ben aghast watching from afar at what certainly seems to be a HUGE problem at Duke (and of course other universities) with a culture where professors and other professionals are celebrated and promoted for spewing hate, bigotry, and anti-intellectual behavior.

They get away with it because they are black, or so it seems. A white person would not survive professionally for five minutes making such outlandish public statements.

If you do not know what I mean, or disagree, I would be glad to share a catalog with you (example: "white innocence is black guilt"; "[the presumption of innocence] is silly sentamentalism", etc.)

There is hope yet.

Jim Peterson

Seriously? "I would be glad to share a catalog with you (example: "white innocence is black guilt"; "[the presumption of innocence] is silly sentamentalism", etc.)" I'll call you on that. Why don't you come up with some examples as well for the following:

They get away with it because they are black, or so it seems. A white person would not survive professionally for five minutes making such outlandish public statements.

Really? Senator Trent Lott told an audience "When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over the years, either." My Thurmond ran on a platform of the Dixiecrats (segregationists).(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixiecrat)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond)

Strom Thurmond said the following during the campaign:

I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigger race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches.

So what happened to these white men for their words? Mr. Thurmond served in the US senate until 2002, when he declined to run for reelection. Mr. Lott was forced to resign, but only from senate leadership. These white individuals remained for more than "five minutes professionally."