Fox News doesn’t hit it very often, but they did this time.
“Critical Rock Theory” – I just about shit myself laughing.
The University of Wisconsin removed a controversial boulder from its Madison campus Friday after the Black Student Union and other activists objected to its description nearly 100 years ago with a racial slur.
Chamberlin Rock, which rests atop Observatory Hill, is named after a 19th Century geologist and former university president, Thomas Crowder Chamberlin, whose work centered on glacial deposits, according to a bio on the university’s website.
But it was a reporter’s reference to the rock in a nearly century-old Wisconsin State Journal article that prompted the push for its removal.
In October 1925, the university had the boulder excavated and placed prominently atop the hill to honor Chamberlin, who would die in Chicago three years later. The rock was a rare specimen believed to be more than 2 billion years old, and before it was installed on Observatory Hill, only about a foot and a half was visible above ground, according to the article. It was believed to have been carried by glaciers from Canada to Wisconsin.
In the 1920s, a slang term used to describe large dark rocks included the N-word, and it appears in coverage of the rock’s installation.
University researchers did not uncover other instances in print where the rock was referred to with this word, but they said the Ku Klux Klan was active on campus at the time of the rock’s dedication, according to an article in the same newspaper published earlier this week.
Was the KKK really “active on campus”?
Because that doesn’t really seem very believable on its face.
So, we’re more than a year into this whole race revolution bit.
How is it going?
Is society fixed yet?
Shouldn’t we have been issued some kind of report on that by now?
Anyway, with regards to nigger rock – I’m myself a big fan of Hendrix.
Other than that, nigger rock hasn’t really done anything for me.
Frankly, Lenny Kravitz – who we might call J-nigger rock – is I think one of the worst people ever.