{"id":7112,"date":"2014-03-09T15:17:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T19:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncdata.wpengine.com\/?p=7112"},"modified":"2017-09-20T21:54:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T01:54:31","slug":"rutgers-administration-project-21-members-stand-with-condoleezza-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2014\/03\/09\/rutgers-administration-project-21-members-stand-with-condoleezza-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"Rutgers Administration, Project 21 Members, Stand with Condoleezza Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the president of Rutgers University in New Jersey stands by<\/a> the decision to ask former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to be the commencement speaker at the school\u2019s New Brunswick campus, members of the National Center\u2019s Project 21<\/a> black leadership network are criticizing members of the Rutgers faculty, student body and others who want to trample free expression and the free exchange of ideas by cancelling Rice\u2019s invitation.<\/p>\n

In an open letter, Rutgers president Robert Barchi wrote<\/a>\u00a0that the planned May 18 speech will not be cancelled, and that \u201cwe cannot protect free speech or academic freedom by denying others the right to an opposing view, or by excluding those with whom they may disagree.\u201d<\/p>\n

The school\u2019s Faculty Council passed a resolution<\/a>\u00a0that demanded Rice be turned away from the Rutgers-New Brunswick commencement because she \u201cplayed a prominent role in the administration\u2019s efforts to mislead the American people about the presence of mass destruction\u201d weapons prior to the U.S.-led liberation of Iraq during the presidency of George W. Bush.<\/p>\n

In a commentary condemning the actions of intolerant liberals in the Rutgers-Rice controversy, liberal political commentator and noted civil rights era historian Juan Williams wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The facts are right.\u00a0 The conclusion is wrong\u2026<\/p>\n

Liberals are shockingly quick to demean and dismiss brilliant black people like Rice, [noted surgeon Ben] Carson, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Professor Walter E. Williams and economist Thomas Sowell because they don\u2019t fit into the role they have carved out for a black person in America.<\/p>\n

Black Americans must be obedient liberals of all things or risk being called a race traitor or Uncle Tom.<\/p>\n

In 2011, the Rutgers system was rocked by another controversy regarding campus speeches.\u00a0 That year, the school was discovered to have paid $32,000<\/a> to have MTV\u2019s \u201cJersey Shore\u201d star Nicole \u201cSnooki\u201d Polizzi to speak \u2013\u00a0$2,000 more than noted black author Toni Morrison received to speak at commencement.\u00a0 Rice will be paid $35,000<\/a> and receive an honorary degree.<\/p>\n

\"P21DMartin\"Noting that the Rutgers faculty failed to show such outrage about the 2011 Snooki speech and Morrison\u2019s commencement address, Project 21 member Darryn \u201cDutch\u201d Martin<\/a> suggested these educators, in particular, should think more about academics than activism.\u00a0 Dutch said:<\/p>\n

Dr. Condoleezza Rice\u2019s academic and professional accomplishments \u2013 as a college professor and a university provost, as well as being the nation\u2019s first black female National Security Advisor and Secretary of State \u2013 are exemplary to say the least.<\/p>\n

But the Rutgers University Faculty Council at the New Brunswick campus feels she doesn\u2019t represent \u201cexemplary citizenship\u201d and wouldn\u2019t \u201cinspire\u201d the school\u2019s new graduates.\u00a0 However, the same university faculty apparently had no problem at all paying a one-time community college student who became a trashy reality TV star \u2013 Nicole \u201cSnooki\u201d Polizzi \u2013 \u00a0$32,000 in 2011 to tell<\/a> students to \u201c[s]tudy hard, but party harder\u201d and that \u201cbeing tan\u201d was her inspiration.<\/p>\n

American higher education is supposed to be the one place where vigorous debate and the free flow of dissenting viewpoints should be encouraged and held as sacred.\u00a0 Yet, in opposing Dr. Rice in this way \u2013 while paying Snooki slightly more than Nobel laureate Toni Morrison was paid as commencement speaker the same year \u2013 the Rutgers University faculty is irrevocably tarnishing their school\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n

Apparently, a fame-hungry girl of questionable values from New Jersey with no real discernable marketable skills or formal education who spent several seasons on \u201cJersey Shore\u201d carousing, getting drunk and having run-ins with the law isn\u2019t quite as bad as serving under a conservative president.<\/p>\n

The Faculty Council at Rutgers should forever hang its collective head in shame.<\/p>\n

\"P21NadraEnzi\"Project 21 member Nadra Enzi<\/a>, added:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s tragic that radicals at Rutgers University, the home of everyman Paul Robeson \u2013 a progressive and civil rights superlative \u2013 tried to \u201cLib Crow\u201d an exemplar such as former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice!<\/p>\n

It shows, yet again, how nakedly racist the allegedly anti-racist liberals in academia appears to be when encountering blacks who achieve outside their narrow wavelength.<\/p>\n

The sheets I see showing during this telling episode don\u2019t look like graduation gowns!<\/p>\n

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