Only hours after Front Page
posted my article last week about bogus
racism allegations – in which, among other things, I lamented that Black
Studies programs in American universities are too preoccupied with inculcating
victimhood and accusing people of racism to produce works like Terry Teachout’s
recent biographies of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington – I discovered that
Teachout himself, who is the Wall Street Journal‘s theater critic and
critic-at-large for Commentary, had been publicly smeared with an
allegation of racism just a few days earlier.
The hurler of this allegation was
Nicholas Payton, a well-known jazz trumpeter who holds the title of
“Distinguished Artist and Visiting Lecturer” at Tulane University – and who has
also taught “master classes, clinics and workshops at over 40 institutions”
from Cornell to Stanford. If I’ve chosen to shine a spotlight on Payton’s
attack on Teachout, it’s not because Teachout needs my defending (indeed, this
isn’t really about Teachout at all) or because Payton is worthy of any special
notice as a thinker (ha!), but because the way in which Payton goes after
Teachout, and the terms in which he discusses matters of race generally,
perfectly exemplify the irrational, indeed hateful, racial ideology that
has increasingly infected American society……… Payton is a racist. A passionate
racist. And he’s proud of it…..His numbers are legion – and, thanks to the
efforts of his fellow ebony-tower ideologues, growing every day.…..Read More »
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