January 26th, 2007

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Aunt Jo-Mama Meets Political Correctness in an Ugly Part of Texas

Friday, January 26th, 2007

No one in Texas knew there was a Tarleton State University until tomorrow’s leaders decided to throw a black- urban-themed party on Martin Luther King Day, aka, another day Federal workers get off. It’s in Stephenville, which is between the well-known cities of Dublin and Granbury, but somehow more remote than El Paso.

More remote than sanity is the reaction of the TSU administration. They’re taking action by golly, and this will not stand. On account of their being part of the Texas A&M system since 1973, one might think. Rather than being an obscure, 6000-student mid-Texas school, they are part of something larger, and action therefore must be taken.

As well they should. The reputation of their world-class planetarium is at stake, with all the tourist dollars and future NASA quantum-astro-wave-mechanics, credit-card wielding, hungry, shopping freshmen it implies.

Honestly. I’d thought PC was out, what with the scorching rhetoric and shrill crowing the Left made in the runup to the recent elections.

But PC festers in the oddest places.

Fortunately, so does anti-PC, and good humor. Is it far-fetched to say the parody of modern African-American culture exhibited by the good-humored students of TSU is a reaction to living so damn near the cultural abyss that is Dallas-Fort Worth?

Maybe to some.

But since the pictures don’t exhibit any real African-American stereotypes, such as Escalades, VSOP, marijuana, whack cribs, writhing white women circling amongst chillin’ brothers, suits you could never afford, houses full of people partying without shooting each other, the token Latino everyone gets along with, and other MTV memes, I don’t think the students should be looked at twice. They are so amateurish in their parody, they should be ignored as much as TSU is ignored in the NCAA lacrosse rankings.

Nonetheless, in the interest of full transparency, here’s the Smoking Gun link.

From that link, this fella indicates he will surely not going to grad school anytime soon:

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