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Ignorance
Do you want to know how mind-numbingly ignorant and lazy people can be? In what was supposed to be a “Gotcha!” moment, a few bloggers breathlessly announced that Michelle Malkin, whose maiden name is Maglalang, was “whitewashing” her ethnicity and Filipino heritage by anglicizing her name. For reasons that are no doubt irrational and juvenile, the intellectual giants failed to consider that Michelle is married and Malkin is her husband’s name.
Her book, Invasion, is copyrighted under Maglalang. This is what they base their assertions on. I came to the correct conclusion when I saw it in my copy: She chose not to go to the trouble of changing the copyright. It took me 2 seconds to figure it out, tops. If she was trying to hide her name, why include it in the book?
A few liberal bloggers created whole posts out of this. As I read some of them (I was lured by a link to my blog), I was shaking my head at the sad state of partisan idiocy floating around the blogosphere.
Anyone who regularly reads Michelle’s columns and blog or even glances at them every once in awhile knows she’s married with two kids. But according to her liberal detractors, a woman who frequently writes with pride about her Filipino heritage is somehow ashamed of her last name. Ironically, some of the same critics accuse her of playing up her heritage! Michelle’s response is pure gold. (Also see David Limbaugh and Outside the Beltway.)
This is one of the reasons I’m not into bashing other bloggers. I don’t read liberals blogs often enough, and with other interesting things going on in the world, I don’t have time to educate myself on who they are and what they do. But some bloggers live to trash others. They seem to love me. The good thing about being bashed by liberals is that they’re 1) reading my blog; 2) bringing other people to it; and 3) helping me rise in the ecosystem.
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Someone in the comment section asked what I thought of historically black colleges and universities (HBCU), assuming that I didn’t attend one and was against them. If anyone’s read the About page, they’d see that I graduated from South Carolina State University, which is an HBCU.
HBCUs were created because black students were once kept out of white schools by law. Rather than closing down after desegregation, they remained open and continued their mission. While these schools are predominately black, they’re not exclusively for blacks. That would be against the law. As long as historically black colleges don’t discriminate to keep other races out, I have no problem with them.
Related sources: Washington Post: Enrollment Is Shifting At Black Universities,
Washington Times: Diversity looks different in historically black colleges.
Etc.
Lots of good stuff in the Autumn 2004 City Journal
Unrelated Update: Armstrong Williams says outgoing NAACP president Kweisi Mfume was kicked out.
Update II: Read Michelle’s defense of her book, various reviews and op-eds.
Update III: “Final Ohio Vote Tally Shows Smaller Margin for Bush” (source)
Well, if that makes them feel better…
