I don’t give a crap about the banal hypocrisy Mirengoff displays about today’s college campus occupations / protests.
But the fact is he… and John and Scott did the exact same, about a cause they believed in, at Dartmouth as undergrads, in the ’60s. That they now claim to no longer believe in the things that animated their multi-day “takeover” of that campus administration building… is of zero relevance. They did it.
And… I. Don’t. Care. About. Their. Decades. Later. Disillusionment. Either. [They did it — so what’s up with the nonsense, son?!]
No, I write this Sunday morning to excoriate Paul Mirengoff, over his damnably entitled lie, below — in describing his time at Dartmouth:
“…But when students began taking over college administration buildings and manhandling deans as they escorted them out the door, the coddling finally came to an end (at least for protests led by white students). Eventually, colleges started calling in the police. At Dartmouth, our occupation of Parkhurst Hall resulted in 30-day jail sentences….”
[The bolded part by Paul… is uniquely malevolent.] Hey Paul… I would like to introduce you to… one Bull Conner. Or any number of Alabama police officers on the Edmund Pettis Bridge.
Please say hello, by the way, to the late great Rep. John Louis, or Martin Luther King, Jr…. or Andrew Young, or Ralph Abernathy or A. Philip Randolph. Or any of the migrant farm workers’ advocates in Southern and Central California, of the day — or the hundreds of young Black (and some white) students who died in the South just a few years earlier than your silly campus “jail sentences“. Jeez.
The notion that Black and Latin kids were treated with kid gloves, in ANY 1960s protest aftermath… is the product of an ensuing six decades of utterly unearned Whyte privilege, Paul.
Your privileges have caused a malign, selective amnesia — about what actually happened.
YOU were the ones handled with kid gloves, seeing your undergrad records cleared, and being graduated on time with honors, all. [John’s dad having secured the best of criminal defenses, in the Northeast — through his legal fraternities of Ivy educated Whyte Guys.]
Then each of you paddled off to the best US law schools (avoiding Vietnam altogether, by skipping the draft as “exempt” grad students) — the law schools being Harvard and Stanford, respectively. [And just on the notion of Vietnam, consider that Cassius Clay was stripped of his titles, jailed for over a year, and prohibited from fighting, in the prime of his career — solely because no lawyer told him to enroll in a graduate school to avoid the draft. No, he stood like a man, and said he would NOT go to kill his brothers in southeast Asia. He was treated better than you?! REALLY?!?]
Meanwhile, most of the civil rights protestors in the South endured fire-hoses, dog attacks, beatings and in many cases… far worse. Lynchings. Billy-clubs. Klan-whippings. [In Houston, an entire battalion of US “Buffalo” soldiers was hunted, with the aim of being shot dead, by the whyte populace, in vigilante fashion, after whyte Texans decided they didn’t like armed “colored” men in their town. And then in a one day “trial” — 19 soldiers who defended themselves were… hung. Holy sh!t, Paul. See at right.]
In sum, this goes back at least two centuries — since you think whyte protestors were treated worse… please do go watch all 12 hours of “Eyes on the Prize“, son.
Damn. Just… damn.
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