By Selwyn Duke
Just recently I wrote a piece about Keith
John Sampson, a college student who was charged with “racial harassment”
for reading an anti-Ku Klux Klan
book. Not surprisingly, the article
evoked a great response, including emails from those with their own stories to
tell about persecution inspired by what I will call caucaphobia. A couple of these accounts are so compelling
– compared to one even Sampson’s problems pale – that I’ve decided to publish
them in this piece (both readers allowed me to use their names; their
correspondence has been edited for punctuation, grammar and style). These are the stories the mainstream media
won’t tell, straight from the front lines of the culture war. They give voice to a persecution whose name
most dare not utter.
First we have Mr. David Gonzalez of Illinois. He wrote:
Dear Mr. Duke,
I can empathize with Mr. Sampson.
I’ve been through the same sort of ordeal. After retiring from the U.S. Navy, I
accepted a position with Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry as its
Manager of Safety (I’m a safety engineer). After four years there, a female
(black-militant) employee noticed my tie bar (Celtic knot-work with the emblem
of my Celtic family – despite my Iberian surname, gained by being adopted, my
genetic heritage is Scot/Irish) and asked me what it was. Stupidly, I
responded, ‘This? Oh, it’s just my clan badge [referring to the Scottish clan
from which he was descended].’I’ll leave it to you to guess what
ensued. I’ll tell you this: by the next morning, the rumor that I had been
‘outed’ as a Klansman had spread, like wildfire, through the ranks of the
museum’s black employees (~ 60%). Two security officers frog-marched me out of
a class I had been teaching (with every black person in the room glaring
at me, with utter loathing!) and escorted me to my boss’s office – there
to be grilled by him. Later in the day, I was called back in and fired from my
position.As I said, I can empathize.
Note that the very people who tout
multiculturalism, ethnic sensitivity and tolerance violated the tenets of all
three in their names. Not only was no
respect shown for Mr. Gonzalez’ display of ethnicity, but he was actually
punished for it. That’s what happens
when you have the “wrong” ethnic heritage.
But the hypocrisy doesn’t end
there. Despite the fact that one of the
main links at the museum’s website is
labeled “education,” management made no attempt to educate employees who were
obviously too ignorant to know what a Scottish clan is and too bigoted to
listen to reason. Instead, because of
caucaphobia and/or cowardice, Gonzalez’ boss listened to the mob that preferred
Barabbas and crucified a good man.
The next testimonial is, believe it
or not, even more staggering. It comes
to us from Mr. Greg Reese, who wrote:
Dear Mr. Duke:
In the fall of 1994, I (a white American) began studying at
American University in Washington, DC. At the time, I lived on campus with my
Japanese roommate. I lived with him for a year and a half. In the spring of
1996, he and I started to develop problems living together. One day, while in
the restroom speaking with another student, I made the comment that ‘we should
just nuke the f******,’ in reference to the Japanese. Little did I know at the
time, my roommate was standing outside and overheard the comment. A few days
later he moved out of the room we shared.After that, I started to receive harassing calls. I would
have unknown Japanese students knocking on my door in the middle of the night.
Later, I had my property destroyed with a note from a Japanese student that he
would drop a bomb on me. This was then reported to and filed with campus
security.A few days later, I had numerous charges of ‘threats,
harassment, and intimidation’ filed against me not by my roommate but the
floor’s Resident Assistant [RA]. In a meeting with him and the Area Director
[AD] (a black immigrant from Africa), I asked how I ‘threatened’ my roommate –
the AD stated ‘It was because he felt threatened.’ I was also told not
to go near my roommate or further charges would be filed.I then contested the filing of the charges with the Director
of Judicial Affairs (a black woman) who then had the RA amend the charges to
represent my creating a ‘threatening’ environment for the residents on the
entire floor. This was done to justify the RA filing the charges rather than my
ex-roommate, since I could not counter-file charges against the RA, who
represented the university [in other words, they wanted to make sure he was
powerless to resist this racial persecution]. I was also told by the director
that this was being viewed as a ‘racial’ incident.At the time I was home on Spring Break. Due to all the
stress created by the charges and a scheduled judicial hearing – where I faced
potentially being expelled from the university – under medical advice I did not
return to the university the rest of the semester. By not returning the
situation escalated further.Because I was enrolled full time, I drove 3.5 hours to
Washington to meet with my professors concerning my classes and would return
home. Unfortunately, I was not able to meet with all of them. I then requested
the assistance of the dean of the business school to attempt to get incompletes
for my classes. The incompletes were given with the forms signed on my behalf
by the dean; however, that information was never provided to me. I thus failed
the courses.While at home, I would receive harassing phone calls from
the Office of Judicial Affairs. On one message I was told I was a ‘liar’ when I
had told the director I was no longer living at the university because I had
been ‘seen’ on campus. When I returned to the university to get my possessions
out of my dorm room, I was greeted by six security officers. I was escorted to
my room, allowed to get my things and then taken to the campus security office,
where I was photographed and told that if I ever step foot in the dorm again, I
will be arrested by the DC police for ‘criminal trespassing.’ Apparently, at
the request of the RA, I had been ‘barred’ from the dorm but yet was never
provided this information. I had requested the information from security
regarding the request the RA had made but they refused to provide it, stating
it could be ‘libel.’In the fall of 1996, my [Japanese] roommate and I spend the
semester studying abroad in London. I made various offices at the university
aware of the charges and that he and I would be together. I was told I would be
allowed to go, but should there be any ‘problems,’ I would be immediately sent
back to the United States and none of what I paid for that semester would be
refunded. Then, after speaking with the Director of Residential Life the
charges were dropped. She stated that my roommate would be going back to Japan
and without their ‘key witness’ they had no case. Additionally, she basically
stated that next time I should keep my mouth shut, saying ‘think before you
speak.’During all of my communication with the university, I was
told that everything was being done on my roommate’s behalf. However, at the
end of 1996, the director of the London program, my roommate, and I had the
first opportunity to discuss what had occurred. My roommate admitted it was not
racial, that he was just angry because we were having problems living together,
and that it was the RA that approached him initially. Furthermore, everything
that had happened to me on his ‘behalf’ he was totally unaware of.In the spring of 1997, I was supposed to graduate from
American. However, given the status of my courses from the spring of 1996, that
was in doubt. Upon returning to campus, I was informed that although the
charges had been dropped, the barring from the dorm had not been. Additionally,
the university’s ‘solution’ to my classes was for me to ‘sit in’ on the courses
and retake them and then I could graduate in the fall of 1997. However, this
apparently was not ‘officially’ sanctioned by the Registrar’s Office.Given a year’s worth of threats, harassment, and
intimidation by the university, I believed it to be nothing but a hostile
environment at that point. I then submitted the paperwork to the university to
withdraw. However, because of the ‘reasons’ for my withdrawal, the dean refused
to sign the paperwork. To this day, I do not know when or how I was withdrawn
since they refused to provide me that information.A year later, I then received information from the
Department of Education [DOE] concerning my financial aid. According to their
records, I had borrowed several thousand dollars for the spring 1997 semester.
I had informed them that I had withdrawn and therefore did not borrow the
money. They had no record of this. Apparently, there was a ‘glitch’ in the
computer system according to the university. The money eventually was refunded
to DOE but not within the 30 days required by law. I then filed a complaint
with the DOE’s Office of Civil Rights given everything that had happened.
However, since my complaint was being filed after the180 day limit from the
first incident, it was not accepted.Upon withdrawing from American, I then spent another 2.5
years in school to finish my degree by transferring to a local community
college and then to the University of Miami in Florida. By doing so, I also put
myself in debt another $30,000 on top of the $30,000 borrowed to attend
American.While I have not been at American for years, the loans have
been a consistent issue. I received no benefit from that money since I had to
repeat everything all over again. Thus, I have been in a constant dispute with
the DOE. Their response has been, ‘You signed the note. You attended the
classes. You owe us the money.’ However, my point to them has been that for
American University to qualify for the federal loan program they must comply
with Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which mandates equal treatment in
all operations of the university, which was not the case. I filed charges with
security for being threatened by a Japanese student and nothing was done. I did
nothing to my roommate and had the full weight of the university fall upon me.As a result of my refusal to pay the loans, DOE has since
garnished my wages. I was informed by them that I have a right to a hearing to
contest the garnishment. I filed the appropriate forms and sent 120 pages of
documents regarding the situation. My hearing was denied and the garnishment
imposed. According to DOE, I had attended American until August of 2000, and,
therefore, because I was still at the school, I needed to repay.When I spoke with the representative of DOE (a black woman),
she stated that I ‘alleged’ discrimination but did not prove it. I asked her where
the August 2000 date came from; she told me it was provided by American
University. I told her that they were providing fraudulent information because
I was at Miami at the time. She then became very belligerent, stating ‘I know
how to do my job’ and hung up on me.So, 12 years later, I am still dealing with the
repercussions of a simple comment made in a restroom at the university. Because
of the various individuals involved and their own racist agenda, I have
essentially had my life ruined. The future that I felt I was going to have when
I first arrived at the university was taken away from me and their actions have
cost me dearly – mentally, emotionally, and financially. Every two weeks when I
get paid and have the garnishment taken I am reminded of what happened. Of
course, the absolute irony in all of this is that I’m still friends with my
roommate.In conclusion, I would like you to know how much I
appreciate what you wrote in describing the situation Keith Sampson
unfortunately found himself in. Your statement, ‘people of low character, often
vile, ignorant, unintelligent individuals’ is very accurate, although phrased
much nicer than I would say it.
Unbelievable, isn’t it? It’s a
story so outrageous that if the mainstream media actually did their job, Mr.
Reese would be on 60 Minutes. Just
imagine, a young man pays a pretty penny to attend a university, with dreams of
bettering himself. Then, using as a
pretext a loose comment no different from millions of others students make
every day, the caucaphobic institution that took his money embarks upon a
racial conspiracy to destroy him.
And these stories – Sampson’s, the two here, the Duke lacrosse witch hunt
– are simply those we hear about. For
every one of them, how many never see the light of media exposure?
Moreover, if America continues on its present course, the thought-police
predators who lurk on college campuses will extend their hunting grounds beyond
the academy. In Europe, Canada and
elsewhere, hate-speech laws have already empowered such scoundrels in the wider
society. Thus, should we visit such laws
on ourselves by continuing to elect leftists, you may one day find yourself at
the mercy of a statist bureaucrat, a far lesser person who at best will be a
mindless cog in the machinery of government, at worst a vindictive social
engineer bent on your destruction. He
will have more hatred than brains, more hubris than humanity, and more power
than you. Then you will have your own
story to tell.
The only question is whether there will be anyone left to tell it to.
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