Lyzko
20 Dec 2023 #1681
@Rich, easy to condemn out of hand without knowing all the facts behind the scenes!
A college president's job is not easy. He or she must continually weigh their words 24/7,
making sure to satisfy everybody from million-dollar donor to work study student, from
LGBTQ to Christian Conservative etc. If they bend over too far back, they're accused of being
partial, if they don't bend far back enough, they're accused of being racist.
The lady just couldn't win.
Cf. with FDR. He did more for America's working class than any president before or since,
yet he ordered the SS Missouri to turn back, sending most of her passengers to almost certain
death in concentration or extermination camps. Having already risked one assassination attempt.
he logically didn't want to risk a second at the hands of bigoted Southerners like Breckenridge Long & Co.
He too was damned if he did and damned if he didn't!