Columnist Feels Colo. U's AfroAm Program Promotes Leftist Ideas
by Jim Brown
March 17, 2005
(AgapePress) - A conservative columnist says the AfroAmerican Studies program at the University of Colorado is supposed to teach cultural education, but in reality it is advancing a Marxist agenda.
According to Thomas Ryan, who writes for FrontPagemagazine.com, Colorado University's AfroAmerican Studies program offers a host of courses that are damning to America and resemble partisan indoctrination. He says even though that educational program is the foundation of the school's Department of Ethnic Studies, its course curriculum does not include such figures as Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Denzell Washington, and Michael Jordan, or millions of other prominent citizens who belong to the growing black middle class in America. Instead, Ryan says the AfroAm program features courses taught by "professors like Jualynne Dodson, who regularly takes students on trips to Cuba and has said that Cuba can provide an alternative to capitalism." Dodson teaches a course called "Contemporary Black Protest Movements." Also, he notes, earlier this month an Ethnic Studies Department presentation did feature 60s radical Angela Davis, a former Black Panther, who spoke in support of contemporary radical Colorado U. instructor, Professor Ward Churchill.
And then, Ryan adds, there is Professor William King, who teaches the course "Black America and the War in Vietnam." According to the conservative columnist, King is another of the AfroAmerican program faculty that views the United States as a racist nation.
"One of the required readings for his course," Ryan points out, "is a book called Brothers: Black Soldiers in the Nam, which was written by Stan Goff, a former recruiter for the Communist Party USA." According to the FrontPagemagazine.com writer, Goff claims America's own Central Intelligence Agency started the war on terror in order to get heroin from Afghanistan to fund further military operations.
Ryan says Colorado University is "shirking its educational responsibilities" by hiring professors like Churchill, Dodson, and King. The columnist contends that these professors are radically biased educators who, with such leftist, anti-American, and socialist ideas, present students with a one-sided view of America.
