Any story about Al Sharpton getting hired to do anything is ridiculous, but this one beats them all. Tennessee State University has hired the veteran race-hustler to teach…political science? I could see if they had a lecture series on tax avoidance or extortion but come on. He’s as qualified to teach a political science class as he is to take one. Apparently TSU is now offering degrees in Race Hustling, which I guess are about as useful as any other degree from this school.
I checked, this is not from The Onion or The Babylon Bee. Here’s the big news from TSU’s website:
The Rev. Al Sharpton, one of the nation’s most renowned civil rights leaders and activists, will join Tennessee State University as a Distinguished Guest Lecturer for the 2021 spring semester starting in January.
Sharpton will be a featured lecturer in the area of political science grounded in social justice during the academic term.
“We are excited to have the Rev. Al Sharpton, a civil rights icon, serve as a distinguished guest lecturer at our university. His presence means our students will be able to engage with a piece of history at a time when his insight is more relevant than ever before,” TSU President Glenda Glover said.
For the first time ever, someone said Al Sharpton is distinguished and insightful. Clearly this woman is a lunatic. Either that or maybe she was thinking of a different Al Sharpton. One who perhaps didn’t make a name for himself lying about a racist rape, while wearing a track suit and rocking a pompadour.
“Not only does Rev. Sharpton know American history and the role African Americans have played to shape that history, he has been an intricate piece of it as well. This will be an amazing opportunity for our students to learn from an individual who comes from the pages of the history books they are reading, and to gain knowledge directly from the source,” said Glover.
What books do they assign their students? The Tawana Brawley Story? Reading Off Of Teleprompters For Dummies?
Speaking of lunatic dummies, check out Sharpton’s acceptance speech or whatever the hell this is:
“It’s my honor to be a distinguished guest lecturer at Tennessee State University in the Spring of 2021 during such a historic time in American history. The course I will teach will examine political science and social justice from the lens of recent cases—many of which I have directly worked on as a civil rights leader and it will look at shifting politics in the new administration relating to issues directly impacting Black communities. As a young teenage civil rights activist, I dreamt that I’d someday attend a HBCU, and as fate would have it, I am doing so as a distinguished lecturer,: said Sharpton.
Can we assume this means he never went to college and is uniquely unqualified to teach at one?
Actually, now that I look at what Sharpton said, I do believe this to be a class in race hustling. He says much of the focus of his class will be on his efforts to pressure Joe Biden into kissing his ass. That’s not political science, that’s Racial Grievance 101.
TSU isn’t exactly an academic powerhouse and hiring Al Sharpton to teach a class certainly won’t change that fact. No seriously. He should be forced to change his name to “Dullton” because he ain’t sharp at all. Sure, he’s pretty good at squeezing tribute out of guilty white liberals but there’s nothing clever about it, they’re just afraid of being called racist.
