"All White People Are Racist?"...The University of Delaware Takes on the Role of George Orwell's Big Brother

George Orwell's Big Brother is alive and well, and living at the University of Delaware. It seems that that particular state university has decided to bypass whatever rights the First Amendment grants us, and taken it upon itself to engage in 'systematic thought reforms."

At the core of the latest controversy is the university's mandatory program that requires all resident hall students to acknowledge that "all whites are racist." Citing that racism is a term that applies "to all white people living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion., cultural or sexuality." The school goes on to offer 'treatment" for any "incorrect attitudes" the students might have upon entering the school.

Wow! To think I once left a communist country to get away from such oppressive left wing doctrine only to find it within a state university of the United States of America. By shear force of experience, I can tell you where this type of faulty thinking will lead. I still vividly recall a distant country where there was no freedom of expression or religion. A country where "re-education" was state sponsored as well. It was a place where kids as young as the age of five where taught a simple refrain, "we will be like Che'," Che of course meaning Che Guevara, the Cuban communist revolutionist. I thought I had left that country and that type of thinking behind some 38 years ago when, I hopped on a plane bearing an American flag on its tail, and was granted political asylum in the United States of America.

But here it is again, same oppressive thinking, only this time it's thinly veiled in the cloth of a state university. A university who is insisting with total disregard for the law of the land, that 7,000 students in its resident halls subscribe to a way of thinking that is not only incorrect, but which borders on Orwell's nightmarish "Thought Police." In fact, my first thoughts on the subject were that someone had overdosed on Orwell's brilliant novel and embraced its darkest most disturbing doctrine.