Mugged: Racial Demagoguery From the Seventies to Obama by Ann Coulter

Author:Ann Coulter [Coulter, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Politics, Non-Fiction
ISBN: 1595230998
Publisher: Sentinel
Published: 2012-09-24T22:00:00+00:00

During the same time period, blacks were raping whites at a clip of several thousand per year—and raping black women at a rate of many multiple thousand per year, according to Department of Justice victimization surveys. (Victimization surveys are obviously the most accurate measure of who is committing crimes because someone who has just been beaten or raped is not going to lie about the race of his assailant for the good of the race.)

When a black stripper, Crystal Mangum, accused members of the Duke University lacrosse team of gang-raping her, no one in the media paused to consider the likelihood of her having been the victim of a nonexistent crime. At no point did liberals say, “Wait a minute, maybe there wasn’t a rape.” As soon as the charge was made, they said, “Well, we know there was a rape. Now let’s psychoanalyze the perpetrators and draw larger conclusions about it.”

Mangum’s alleged rape instantly inspired rafts of articles about “frat boys,” “patriarchy” and “white male power.” One white male sports columnist managed to use the phrase “frat boys” five times in a single column about “good old frat boys having a good old frat-boy time…rich-boy, frat-boy arrogance and entitlement.”26

Certain words always say more about the speaker than the person being described. People who call others “entitled,” “privileged” or a “frat boy” or refer to someone’s “daddy” are fantasists who enjoy imagining Thurston Howell chasing them with his polo mallet. Liberals treat WASPdom as an obscure and mysterious cult instead of the ethnic background of a majority of Americans at least into the 1990s. “Frat boys” haven’t held any kind of power since at least the 1920s.

There isn’t even a Protestant on the Supreme Court, much less an Eastern establishment, old money, Ivy League, social club Protestant. The only traditional WASPS in the presidency in the past century have been FDR and the two Bushes—the second raised in Texas. As Richard Brookhiser, author of The Way of the WASP, puts it, these days, the very phrase, “the Protestant establishment” sounds like a joke.27

Consequently, for Duke professors, Mangum’s putative rape was like Christmas morning. Within a few weeks of Mangum leveling her charge, eighty-eight professors had rushed out with a full-page newspaper ad titled, “This Is What A Social Disaster Looks Like,” that simply assumed the lacrosse players’ guilt. It was too good a story to wait for the facts.

One hint of the turn civil rights had taken was given by the signatories to the advertisement. Obviously, the African American Studies Department was overrepresented, with 80 percent of the department signing, but they have to justify their existence somehow. Nipping at the heels of the African American Studies Department was the Program in Women’s Studies, with 72 percent represented, followed by the Department of Cultural Anthropology, coming in at 60 percent.28

Among the more prominent professors signing the letter were:29

Anne Allison, white feminist nut. Her work includes the book Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (1994). After

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