By Selwyn Duke

This is Jeremiah Wright-style racism at its best.

The May 9 edition of the New York Post carries a short article by an Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis student named Keith John Sampson. He tells a story of how he was charged with “racial harassment” simply because he was “caught” reading an anti-Ku Klux Klan book. I’m not kidding.  Sampson tells his story:

The book was Todd Tucker’s ‘Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan’; I was reading it on break from my campus job as a janitor. The same book is in the university library . . . .

But that didn’t stop the Affirmative Action Office of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis from branding me as a detestable Klansman.

They didn’t want to hear the truth. The office ruled that my ‘repeatedly reading the book . . . constitutes racial harassment in that you demonstrated disdain and insensitivity to your co-workers.’

The affirmative-action officer—who draws a salary of $106, 000 a year to perform her crucial role and is obviously a woman of inestimable intellect—neither examined the book nor spoke with Sampson. He wasn’t guilty before proven innocent. He was just guilty.

To make a long story short, the charges were only dropped months later after the institution of lower learning came under pressure from the media, the ACLU (hey, even a blind squirrel… ) and a more obscure group called the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.

Since Sampson works as a janitor to, I would assume, help finance his education, he obviously wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Perhaps he was assumed to be one of those bitter working class people of whom Barack Obama spoke. Anyway, it’s good to see he is getting something for the many thousands of dollars he is paying to attend his illustrious Indiana university.

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For many years now we have heard about data used to justify charges of racial profiling. It will be determined that an inordinate percentage of blacks are pulled over by police in a given area, and that alone is viewed as sufficient cause to change law-enforcement procedures. Even more to the point, many claim that since blacks constitute a percentage of the prison population greatly exceeding that of the general one, it’s evidence of systemic “racism.”

So here is a study I’d like to see conducted. Let’s ascertain the racial composition of those who have charges of racial harassment brought against them—and of those punished for same—on college campuses. Call me crazy, but I have a sneaking suspicion that virtually all those targeted are white.

Oh, yeah, I overlooked something. Only white people can be racist.

Let’s just forget the whole thing.

Racism is racism, no matter who practices it.
Let’s have the PC police telling us what to read and when and where to read it.  Right out of the leftie playbook for “change” in America.