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"If anyone wants to pray for him, now's the time."--Garth Ennis, Hellblazer

Neil,

I just came across your blog while surfing the Net for Song of the South info. I read your entry about your classroom experience and it evoked some responses I'd like to share.

I am a graduate student at the University of Chicago in sociology with an emphasis on gender studies. I am also not a woman (...I am not sure why I have to clarify that, but I feel like I do). I can sympathize with your situation: in a similar class that I took as an undergraduate on the Palestinian/ Israeli conflict, the professor used the class as a pulpit and by the final exam (in which she gave everyone in the class either a D or an F-- incredible) all of the students had filed a formal petition of complaint with the dean's office. This "professor" got reprimanded and fired. I got credit for the course through the political sciences department.

What you don't do in your blog is you don't mention your professor's name. Who is this lunatic?? She sounds like a few professors/ academics I could name, but that doesn't narrow down anything for me.

I not only loved Song of the South, I have actually read the complete tales of Uncle Remus in their original. I love them. I don't care who calls me racist because of that. It is teachers like yours that make learning torture, and I am extremely curious to know who is promulgating (a great word, by the way) the kind of one-view anybody-who-disagrees-with-me-is-racist perspective that she is. This is teaching at its worst. My apologies on behalf of academics in general.