BY JOHN REYNOLDS
SPECIAL TO CNBNEWS.NET
\”They must be ghosts,\” thought college classics professor Philip Roth, wondering where the MIA students were who have yet to appear in his Greek Tragedy class five weeks into the semester. \”What are they, spooks?\”, he asked his class. It turns out they weren\’t apparitions, but a couple of black students, fast-tracked through college thinking they were entitled to no-show degrees guaranteed by government quotas. Being Roth is Jewish, and the missing students black, all hell broke loose on campus.
\”Spooks\” acquired a new meaning at some point along its etymological development, and Roth was accused of being a racist. His colleagues scapegoated him on the altar of political correctness, afraid to speak out and put their careers in jeopardy. It turns out Roth wasn\’t Jewish, or even white, but black. Though his father had the traditional Negro look, his mother was a fair-skinned mix of white, black, and Indian.
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