Duke Politics Professor Attacks Blacks: Racist Comments Compare Blacks To Asians, Says They Refuse To ‘Integrate’

A Duke politics professor’s attack on blacks through racist comments is sparking outrage. Jerry Hough compared blacks to Asians and claims they “refuse” to integrate in society.

The Washington Post reports that Hough is known for “cutting against the grain” and is one of nation’s “leading Kremlinologists”; he’s tried erasing misconceptions in people’s minds about the Soviet Union.

A 1988 book review by the news source wrote that “Hough’s arguments are forcefully put, backed by intriguing details and the kind of arch contempt for conventional wisdom that has made Hough an enfant terrible in his field.”

The Duke politics professor’s attack involves some racially noxious comments in his stand against conventional wisdom in a May 9 article he wrote in the The New York Times regarding the riots in Baltimore. It was called “How Racism Doomed Baltimore.” His six-paragraph piece compared blacks to Asians, and he wrote that the race refuses to integrate by “using strange names.”

Duke University Vice President of Public Affairs, Michael Schoenfeld, told Fox 8 that Hough’s remarks were “noxious, offensive, and have no place in civil discourse.”

It appears that Hough has been placed on leave after making the offensive comments, but he said he’d already been on academic leave before firing up controversy. The Duke professor said he’s not backing down on any of the racist comments he made.

In part, some of what Hough wrote in his op-ed piece in The New York Times is expressed below.

“… In 1965 the Asians were discriminated against as least as badly as blacks. That was reflected in the word ‘colored.’ The racism against what even Eleanor Roosevelt called the yellow races was at least as bad.”

“So where are the editorials that say racism doomed the Asian-Americans. They didn’t feel sorry for themselves, but worked doubly hard.”

Hough then compares blacks to Asians when it comes to chosen names and dating whites.

“I am a professor at Duke University. Every Asian student has a very simple old American first name that symbolizes their desire for integration. Virtually every black has a strange new name that symbolizes their lack of desire for integration. The amount of Asian-white dating is enormous and so surely will be the intermarriage. Black-white dating is almost non-existemt because of the ostracism by blacks of anyone who dates a white.”

The Duke professor’s racist comments immediately drew in criticism. Hough reacted by saying there’s too much oversensitivity to racism to the point that being accurate is considered wrong.

“… The more we have emphasized sensitivity in recent years, the worse race relations have become… “

So, what’s the duke politics professor’s only regret on the perceived attack? He wrote: “There were typos in my outrage towards [the editorial] and I could have been more careful (though hard in the space limits).”

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