UC Berkeley Offering College Credits To “Fight The New Jim Crow”…
Moonbat training camp.
(TheDC) — Back in the day, if students wanted easy credits, they signed up for underwater basket-weaving. Now they just need a political cause.
The University of California, Berkeley is offering students college credit to work for an expressly political organization fighting for affirmative action and immigrant rights.
This semester, the African Studies department at Berkeley is offering a two-credit class called “Fighting to Learn, Learning to Fight: Building the Movement for Public Education and Equality.”
The class is sponsored by BAMN — The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrants Rights And Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary — and advertises itself to students who want “to increase underrepresented minority enrollment, restore affirmative action and overturn Prop. 209 and pass CA DREAM Act 131 and a UC-Wide DREAM Act.”
According to its website, the class will focus on four main tenants of BAMN’s program: “the promise of public education and its role in American society, the centrality of fighting racism and the ‘New Jim Crow,’ the importance of building an independent, youth-led movement and our responsibility to fight for our own liberation as leaders.”
Posted by ZIP on Tuesday, August 30, 2011, at 9:21 pm | 
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How can you fight for equality by restoring affirmative action? Isn’t that a little like F***ing for virginity?
“Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary”
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Isn’t that self-defeating?
If the ends justify the means, aren’t they only violating the rights of others?
PLUS you have to pay an arm and a leg for the privilege of taking these brainwashing courses. Tuition/fees go up, up, up, and quality of education goes down, down, down.
This is as idiotic as a degree in “women’s studies” from my old school (CSULB).
College is expensive and they’re always dropping classes for lack of money…yet the gov’t is subsidising idiotic courses that do NOT benefit the GDP simply because they produce nothing. But because they are politically correct, they make sure those classes are heavily funded and not dropped, even expanded into all kinds of idiotic directions. Another example of tax-payer money being shoved into the ass of a dead rino.
@gatorgrab
Ah, but you are engaging in critical THINKING, something expressly NOT taught in the so-called temples of higher education like Berkeley….
BAMN?
Neo-Commie scum. And now Californians tax money is being spent on this crap.
I remember one of their spoke-holes Luke Massie was on Laura Ingraham’s program making all kinds of threats and she called him on it and being the pussy he is, backed down.
Funnily enough, not long after, a video showed up on the web showing this same jack-off getting his clocked cleaned by some union thug. I think this Massie d-bag confused him for being with whatever the hell they were protesting THAT day and got in the union goons face. If I remember right, the dude was pretty muscled and decked the scumbag toot sweet.
Funny as hell. Unfortunately was unable to re-locate the clip though. Sorry.
RTS
They think minorities are underrepresented in college admissions? Compared to what? The general population?
Cal, my grad school. No effing surprise.
It was once and for decades such a great school. It really was. With great people, too.
Today, ought to put a daisy cutter to the place.
Liberal(insane) universities teach liberal(insane) views.
Stop all tax dollars going to education….privatize the entire system.
If I was an employer and someone came to me with a degree from Berkeley, that person would continue to be unemployed. Qualified otherwise or not.
“Fighting to Learn, Learning to Fight:”
The new civil tone.
And they demonized Palin for saying “target.”
My daughter graduated from Berkeley in 2003, got her RN
Masters degree last year from Johns Hopkins…..and NEVER
voted for a democrat in her life. It’s one thing we have in
common.
I have an idiot relative there now trying to get a degree in political science.
Guess his party affiliation?
“the promise of public education and its role in American society, the centrality of fighting racism and the ‘New Jim Crow,’ the importance of building an independent, youth-led movement and our responsibility to fight for our own liberation as leaders.”
Sorry, I’m old and it’s late. Can someone tell me what this statement means?
Promise of public ed and its role in Am society – I thought we had public ed as a part of Am society. ???
Centrality of fighting racism and the ‘New Jim Crow,’ – I need help here. I thought racism was pretty well handled until the Obama scene.
The importance of building an independent, youth-led movement – A YOUTH-LED movement? What do youths know about moving anything?
Our responsibility to fight for our own liberation as leaders. – Would that be the Youth-Led movement as liberationists and leaders?
Huh? Please help me.
@PatriotLady
That statement, in an honest thinking society, is what we call a pile of babbling bullshit.
Idiot Training 101.
Jesus wept. Tenants rent your house. Focusing on your tenants might get you busted for harassment, especially if you use binoculars.
The dim-bulbs at U.C. JERKELY must be living in the middle ages the jim crow laws are a thing of the past
So, I’m assuming you don’t have to turn in any work, participate in class, hell, maybe you don’t even have to show up for class to get your A.
You mean to tell me that colleges indoctrinate students with politically correct statist garbage?!
Well, this sure is breaking news to me! /sarcasm
Do you know that 90 % of the worlds population is minority?
“…the African Studies department … so they’re studying things like Mugabe taking white’s farms and such, right?
Yes people today are SO oppressed and have their rights stripped away that they need to FIGHT for rights.
/facepalm
The only people I see being stripped of any rights and their dignity are taxpayers / tea partiers.
Time to TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY and run the leftists brainwashers out
I think that any college which receives tax dollars, and that’s most, should be shut down if they engage in this kind of political brainwashing. It’s not fair that people who work have to pay for somebody elses kids to “learn” this bull.
The govt. shouldn’t be involved in this sort of ‘education’, if the govt. wants to eduacte people, they should invest in high tech trade schools, and leave the cess pools of political brainwashing to fend for themselves.
What exactly do they mena by “the new jim crow”?
Do they mean that they shouldn’t have to show ID if they’re not in the country illegally, or if they want to vote?
Was that all Jim Crow was? Sorry it just doesn’t sound that bad to me.