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This article is spot on in many ways, like it or not.
Only if you decide your world is composed of knowing half or less than half of the truth.
The article is an inflamatory attempt to sell papers, generate emotional responses, and reduce a brilliant tradition to buzzwords that are meant to agitate, anger, and upset.
Then, of course, like the yellow journalism it is, it will claim free-speech-one-man's-opinion-just-telling-it-like-I-see-it, bullcrap nonsense. We are supposed to take it seriously because this guy was on the "inside."
I submit this guy was never "inside" at all. He simply "went to college", while the rest of us adopted a spirit that this guy side-stepped completely.
This article will make the pc crowd very happy. I would never trade being an Aggie, or be shamed by her great and unique traditions, just because I wanted to please the collective of "journalists" that lie to us and themselves, having sold out to outside agendas.
This guy is trying to make himself out to be a champion of responsibility, equality, racial harmony, blahblahblah, by attacking a target he thinks an easy one.
I say he's made himself a prostitute.
He sold out because he thinks he can gain from it. He sacrifices something powerful, and wonderful, and unique, and character building, and a thousand other positives because it's easier to throw out some inflammatory rhetoric, prtened to cast yourself in some sainted light, then bask when non-thinkers begin to heap accolades upon his fake image of himself he's desperately tried to create.
The guy is a w h o r e begging for the easy dime of the groups that will praise his "boldness". We know who these people and groups are. We know the DMN is all about controversy. They'll galdly pay the w h o r e his price, just to listen to the sounds of toil that follow that to them means $. There is no desire for honesty, integrity, or truth in any of them.
I feel bad for the writer, who "went to A&M" but has no idea of what being an Aggie in this respect means. I don't think he missed the point. I think he gets the point, and actively opposes it.
Well then, so be it.
I will probably never meet this writer. But something tells me if I did, he would have a lot more shame about being an Aggie than pride.
For that reason, to me any ring he wears is just as much of a lie as his article.
God bless this place, and protect it from the gutless, the weak, the apologists, the pessimist, the legislators, the false leaders, the bad leaders, the treacherous, the "looters" (you A.R. people get this one!), the insipid, the liars, the selfish, and all the others who would damage out Brilliant and Strong Mother.
