Let me give another example of the liberal double standard. For 8 years they have called Bush a "chimp" and superimposed Bush pictures on the cartoon figure "Curious George". When an East Coast Merchant made a Tshirt with Obama's face superimposed on Curious George, there was an immediate outcray and much gnashing of teeth and shedding of tears by the left. And you wonder why we dismiss most of the left wing outrcies as hypocrisy.
Why?
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"There are a lot of students who don't understand the extent to which racism still exists today," says professor Hulbert. "They haven't grown up during the time of the civil rights movement, Rodney King. They don't even remember O.J. Simpson."
That reality may lend some credence to the "stupid kid" theory. "I think it was some stupid kids not realizing the ramifications of what they've done," says Melanie Springer Mock, who teaches literature and journalism at the school. "They're not even considering that what they did might be considered a racist message."
The "Act Six reject" sign demonstrates that whoever hung the effigy doesn't get how the program works. The national program has cohorts on seven different campuses, including George Fox, which adopted Act Six without controversy last fall after a nine-month training session. The only prerequisite for the full-ride scholarship is that participants come from the nearby Portland area. Beyond that, says Act Six student Jesus Garcia, the scholarship committee looks for community service, leadership and grades. The program is more focused on socioeconomic diversity than racial diversity, say teachers and students, though only two of the 17 recipients currently attending school at George Fox are white.
Most people understand the point of Act Six, says Wilkins. She got into the program in part because she comes from a family of eight children, all adopted. "Some people are really excited for me. Some don't understand why I got it. One of my favorite comments was, 'I wish I was a black kid, so I could get a scholarship like that too.'"
That's a phenomenon called "the limited good," explains Ron Stansell, a professor of religion at the school, and it may have more to do with the effigy hanging than outright racism. The concept, in anthropology, refers to the perception that wealth is a finite entity, such that one person's gain is at another person's expense; that economic life is a zero-sum game.
"I think that's what I'm seeing here," Stansell says. Students might think to themselves, "Here are minority students that have gotten a benefit I have not gotten. It must mean, in the cosmic scope of things, that I've been cheated."
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