College
President Kathleen McCartney says she's sorry for saying “All lives
matter.”
Kathleen McCartney The President of
Smith College says she is sorry for writing "all lives matter"
in an email she sent out. Her juvenile minded protege were outraged
over her choice of words. They don't emphasize the racist thinking
that prevails and many wrote back angry emails that showcase the
lower level of intellect that is being cultivated in this school.
Sad!
Apparently she wrote the phrase in the
subject line of an e-mail she sent to students at the school.
McCartney reiterated that she was attempting to show support for
students protesting the grand jury decisions, where police officers
were not charged in the deaths of unarmed black men.
With the cases of Michael Brown and
Eric Garner in particular, the internet has been on fire with the
phrase/hashtag "Black Lives Matter." McCartney's kinder
interpretation of the phrase that read “All Lives Matter”
offended those who wish to keep a focus on racism, claiming that her
wording diminished the focus on the victimized black lives. This kind
of rationale is disturbing to say the least.
“We are united in our insistence that
all lives matter,” is what she wrote in the email that has created
a racist frenzy. The rest seems to have been conveniently
overlooked...she went on to say that she supported the protests by
adding, the grand jury decisions...“led to a shared fury… We
gather in vigil, we raise our voices in protest.”
It seems like a nice person can't write
nice things to others privately anymore. The phrase “black lives
matter” is itself racist and her wording was simply a nicer touch.
The uproar over choice of words is an example of profound
misunderstanding that is coming from the college level thinking that
should be better than that. Claiming that she was invalidating the
experience of black lives, by using a kinder phrase is bullshit!
Sadly Kathleen McCartney felt the need
to apologize and did so in another email, stating that she had made a
mistake “despite my best intentions.”
The real problem is not what she wrote,
but how stupid people choose to interpret her message.
Hashtags/phrases don't always refer to the same thing, anyone can use
the trending topics to attach anything that they want to it, just to
draw more attention. Even idiots know this!
Summing up this news item of no
significance, it is becoming more and more difficult to be
politically correct. All I can say is this, it's a sad day when a
nice person has to apologize for writing something nice.
Political Correctness is Out of
Control!
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