A Black Professor Trapped In Anti Racist Hell

Summary: Professor Vincent Lloyda, Director of Africana Studies at Villanova, experienced horror while teaching a seminar for advanced high school students. The class was influenced, then taken over by two college assistants. The class at the beginning was happy and engaged intellectually, then unhappy and cowed by endless accusations of micro aggression, race wronging, etc. ................................................................................................................................ His words: On the sunny first day of seminar, I sat at the end of a pair of picnic tables with nervous, excited 17-year-olds. Twelve high-school students had been chosen by the Telluride Association through a rigorous application process—the acceptance rate is reportedly around 3 percent—to spend six weeks together taking a college-level course, all expenses paid. The group reminded me of the heroes of the Mysterious Benedict Society books I was reading to my daughter: Each teenager, brought together for a common project, had some extraordinary ability and some quirk. One girl from California spoke and thought at machine-gun speed and started collecting pet snails during the pandemic; now she had more than 100. A girl from a provincial school in China had never traveled to the United States but had mastered un-accented English and was in love with E.M. Forster. In addition to the seminar, the students practiced democratic self-governance: They lived together and set their own rules. Those first few days, the students were exactly what you would expect, at turns bubbly and reserved, all of them curious, playful, figuring out how to relate to each other and to the seminar texts. Four weeks later, I again sat in front of the gathered students. Now, their faces were cold, their eyes down. Since the first week, I had not spotted one smile. Their number was reduced by two: The previous week, they had voted two classmates out of the house. And I was next. more at: https://compactmag.com/article/a-black-professor-trapped-in-anti-racist-hell

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