{"id":20695,"date":"2019-10-04T23:40:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T03:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=20695"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:42:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:42:50","slug":"field-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2019\/10\/field-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Urban News, our local multicultural news weekly, reported<\/a> that Dr. Jamie R. Riley\u00a0 was forced to resign last month from his position as assistant vice president and dean of students at the University of Alabama.\u00a0 He had assumed that position in February.*<\/p>\n

Dr. Riley is a 38-year-old black man who earned his doctorate in counseling and student services from University of Georgia in 2011.\u00a0 He had served as the executive director of the international black fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha<\/a> and also as associate\/assistant deans for Johns Hopkins University and University of California Berkeley.<\/p>\n

Riley resigned (a) because the nut-right Breitbart News republished old remarks from his Twitter account associating the U.S. flag with our racist history and our racist policing and (b) because the trustees and leaders of the University of Alabama are cowards<\/a> who think diversity is two four-letter-words with an r in the middle.<\/p>\n

You can read Riley’s tweets elsewhere — my favorite source was the black news-magazine The Root, whose headline read “Alabama Dean Quits Because White People Can\u2019t Handle the Truth<\/a>.”\u00a0 I thought Riley’s tweets were forthright, certainly nothing Colin Kaepernik and Black Lives Matter haven’t already pointed out.\u00a0 What Riley tweeted registered only 2.6 on the Malcolm X Threat-to-Whitey Scale.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, here is a sample of the comments posted in Crimson White<\/em> [sic], the student newspaper of the University of Alabama, in response to the article<\/a> announcing Dr. Riley’s resignation.\u00a0 What a field day for the beasts:<\/p>\n