Gotta love Spartan Bob's enthusiasm, but not his politics. If you don't support the admissions policy of UM (and the discriminatory Civil Rights Initiative that both MI gubernatorial candidates are against), then you yourself are racist. 'Tis very easy to be White and satisfied, but it is a different story altogether to be strong enough to allow diversity and differences to play a part in developing America's future.

I hate UM on the gridiron like the next person, but bringing politics into the matter only spells trouble. We agree with the Green and lets leave it at that.

Oh, my... racist? That's not a very 'enlightened' thing to say. And, for the record, I stated: 'an Un-American place where they go to court to defend an Orwellian speech code and a racially based admissions department.'

Aside from the obvious editorializing with the 'un-American' statement, the rest is a 100% factually accurate restating of history, and the events are linked: the infamous Speech Code was a deliberate -- and completely unconstitutional -- attempt to keep students from publicly barking about the admissions policy.

Oh yeah, and the racially-based admissions policy (at least the undergraduate version) was also ruled unconstitutional.

Having the highest court in the land rule, not once, but TWICE in the same decade that the school is violating the civil liberties of Michigan students does seem sort of 'un-American' in my book. But, then again, I'm not the Spartan claiming enlightenment.

And it all makes this bit of irony in the post all the more amusing: "..a different story altogether to be strong enough to allow diversity and differences to play a part in developing America's future..."


The most important minority is the individual, and the most critical bit of diversity is the diversity of opinion. Speech Codes in Ann Arbor and (sad to say) some Spartans with pretentions to enlightenment seem to forget this when they publicly lay down markers about what comments are permissable, and where.