I know some of you hear of Hillsdale College on the radio, here is some interesting info on that institution. "You may recall 1844 as being before a little historical footnote called the Civil War, meaning that Hillsdale treated blacks like full human beings capable of great professional and intellectual accomplishments while so much of the rest of the country didn’t even have to treat them any better than cattle. - It’s not for nothing that the great abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass delivered speeches at Hillsdale on two separate occasions, or that, as Josiah Ryan writes at Campus Reform, “In the Civil War, a higher percentage of Hillsdale’s students fought for the Union than from any other non-military college. During that fight, four Hillsdale students received the Medal of Honor. More than 60 perished.” - This should only come as a surprise to those who’ve never scratched beyond the surface of the Left’s defamatory conservatism-as-racist narrative. Hillsdale excels at true racial equality—color-blind treatment of every human being as an individual first and foremost—because individualism, natural rights, and the sanctity of human life are intrinsic to her founding philosophy, which in turn is the philosophy of our Founding Fathers which modern conservatism tasks itself with preserving. - In fact, Hillsdale’s steadfast refusal to play along with the state’s superficial quotas-as-equality mindset is certainly a contributor to a far richer diversity that thrives on the campus: diversity of thought, of experience, of perspective."
Posted on: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 23:01:13 +0000
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