Time for
some Frederick Douglass reality check - WCC got 1 year left and instead of
unifying to try to change that equation - I have come under scurrilous and
baseless attack for the methods of struggle that I chose to embrace and that I
have proposed and promoted - I think some are trying to tell themselves that
something was won on March 28 but the AAUP statement responding to the decision
is a far more sober assessment.
I have been vilified for
saying as much and folks say they want to be positive and hopeful. That's all well and
good - have at it - but come this time next year the wrecking ball from the
meme my son made last year (when I participated in a quasi successful effort to
save WCC yet to the detriment of faculty and the AAUP) will be casting a dark
shadow.
This is the
part of the famous quotation that relates to those that have participated in my
smearing for my suggestions of a more active and sustained kind of protest than
what students and alumni offered:
"If there
is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and
yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They
want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar
of its mighty waters."
Here there
has been disparaging of my agitation and we did NOT plow the ground. There has
been no thunder and lighting and there has been no roar of mighty waters and
come 2018 . . . as it seems . . . unless we heed the call of AAUP to continue
the fight to demand that Westminster continue . . . there will be no
Westminster.
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