{"id":166,"date":"2008-07-16T20:31:18","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T00:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/2008\/07\/16\/reading-a-book-harassment\/"},"modified":"2008-07-20T13:31:36","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T17:31:36","slug":"reading-a-book-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/reading-a-book-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading a Book = Harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keith John Sampson, a communication-studies senior at Purdue who supplements his income by working there as a janitor, was reading a history book (which is also in the school&#8217;s library) during a break.  &#8220;Notre Dame vs. the Klan&#8221; details the story of how Notre Dame students physically attacked the KKK and literally ran them out of town on a rainy night in 1927.<\/p>\n<p>Two cowardly race-baters made an anonymous complaint about his despicable behavior of, um, reading a book and the $106,00 a year affirmative action officer declared him guilty of racial harassment and told him he should be fired.<\/p>\n<p>For reading an <em>anti-Klan<\/em> book.<\/p>\n<p>They eventually dropped that charge, and are now charging him with, well, something. No one will say what his offense is, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org\/news\/2632\/university-attacks-student-for-reading-this-book\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> reporter discovered.<\/p>\n<p>He tells the story in his own words <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/05092008\/postopinion\/opedcolumnists\/my_racial_harassment_nightmare_110119.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But political corrections and rampant far-left stupidity doesn&#8217;t exist in higher education, we&#8217;re told.  Uh uh.  That&#8217;s a baseless complaint, and anyone who makes must watch Fox News and listen to Rush.  Oh, and they&#8217;re racist, too.  Definitely racist.  That&#8217;s the ticket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith John Sampson, a communication-studies senior at Purdue who supplements his income by working there as a janitor, was reading a history book (which is also in the school&#8217;s library) during a break. &#8220;Notre Dame vs. the Klan&#8221; details the story of how Notre Dame students physically attacked the KKK and literally ran them out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}