“Telling people what they want to hear may not help them in the long run, though it usually helps the tellers in the short run. This is common sense. But many of today's academics do not think and act like common people.” Common SenseAcademia Book:Stones of Contention Source: Stones of Contention
“I see the rhetorical question "Who Owns the Past?" so frequently used by humanities and social science professors to provoke classroom discussions as needlessly and erroneously planting the idea that a living group of people could "own the past." Surely, any such claim should be taken no more seriously than the cast of Sesame Street should they claim to "own the alphabet.” PastHistoryAcademiaSesame Street Book:Stones of Contention Source: Stones of Contention
“To me, the political right appears as a largely unexplored country inhabited by a pantheon of brilliant black scholars whose works do not "matter" to a left-leaning academy that chooses racial hypocrisy over intellectual diversity.” RaceAcademiaLeftismIntellectual DiversityPolitical BiasBlack Intellectuals Book:Stones of Contention Source: Stones of Contention