This is another prime example of the “inclusive atmosphere” that Liberals are trying to promote with their forced diversity. Chicago University’s English Department put out a notice claiming that they would not be accepting any grads that are not focusing on “Black Studies.” They later took down the mention of their rigid acceptance policy, after the public made them realize how ridiculous they were being.
The original post read like this:
“For the 2020-2021 graduate admissions cycle, the University of Chicago English Department is accepting only applicants interested in working in and with Black Studies. We understand Black Studies to be a capacious intellectual project that spans a variety of methodological approaches, fields, geographical areas, languages, and time periods.”
But it was rewritten to at least appear more accepting.
“The English department at the University of Chicago believes that Black Lives Matter, and that the lives of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and Rayshard Brooks matter, as do thousands of others named and unnamed who have been subject to police violence. As literary scholars, we attend to the histories, atmospheres, and scenes of anti-Black racism and racial violence in the United States and across the world. We are committed to the struggle of Black and Indigenous people, and all racialized and dispossessed people, against inequality and brutality.
“The department is invested in the study of African American, African, and African diaspora literature and media, as well as in the histories of political struggle, collective action, and protest that Black, Indigenous and other racialized peoples have pursued, both here in the United States and in solidarity with international movements. Together with students, we attend both to literature’s capacity to normalize violence and derive pleasure from its aesthetic expression, and ways to use the representation of that violence to reorganize how we address making and breaking life. Our commitment is not just to ideas in the abstract, but also to activating histories of engaged art, debate, struggle, collective action, and counterrevolution as contexts for the emergence of ideas and narratives.”
“Part of our commitment to the struggle for Black lives entails vigorous participation in university-wide conversations and activism about the university’s past and present role in the historically Black neighborhood that houses it.”
Chicago University Admins probably told the English Department to tone it down. They are allowed to have students that focus on Black Studies but it doesn’t need to be nor should it be every student. It is better for our society as a whole if people know a multitude of things, not just Black Studies. But these libs just go too far with everything.
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