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When Gonzaga University professor Tod Marshall began helping to plan the university s 4th Annual Race and Racism Lecture, he decided to do something different. The former state poet laureate wanted to include as many people as possible after a summer of racial justice protests and a contentious election. So he reached out to local teachers to engage high school students in advance of Wednesday s lecture.
The guest for this year’s Race and Racism Lecture at Gonzaga is poet and Yale University professor Claudia Rankine. Tod Marshall says the choice to invite Claudia Rankine to speak had a lot to do with her 2014 book,
completely different than pena nieto with donald trump. tucker: so we are getting another racism lecture from a rich white mexican ruling class member. okay. just want to clarify that. hold on. to get racism lecture is from any mexican official who presides over one of the most racist countries in the world, most americans don t understand that. but it s racist what is happening but it is racism. let me just say why. what are the number of americann kids in cages right now? zero. what is the number of central american kids in cages? 2300. tucker: no one is being detained because of the color of his skin. this is in mexico. in mexico, giving rise to levels of prominence because it s too racist. again, mexican citizens are in a position to lecture americans about racism. let s start there. it is racism what is
s a, i think they should be exposed this is a radical idea now on campus. they should be exposed to people who think differently than they do. and see, if you have somebody like condoleezza rice being protested, she s not. co-ing to speak about the iraq war. she s giving a commencement address, and we should be able i opposed the iraq war, but we should be able to hear from people who might have other insights to share with us even though we disagree with them on something. i think we ve all said surprise surprise david horace has been writing about how left wing college campuses are for 30 years. i have a limit for perpetual jute rage about these things. and i think we need to take the next step what do conservatives do about it? why don t they walk out when they re getting another racism lecture frf michelle obama.