{"id":230576,"date":"2017-04-21T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=230576"},"modified":"2017-04-24T16:22:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T20:22:53","slug":"push-to-give-free-tuition-as-reparations-begs-the-question-whats-the-purpose-of-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/04\/21\/push-to-give-free-tuition-as-reparations-begs-the-question-whats-the-purpose-of-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Push to Give Free Tuition as Reparations Begs the Question: What\u2019s the Purpose of College?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I was watching Tucker Carlson last night on the Fox News Channel<\/a>, and, you know, Tucker has this unique aspect. He somehow goes and gets liberal guinea pigs who do not know that they\u2019re guinea pigs. He goes and finds the best daily example of liberal, extreme, wacko stupidity and invites them in and then just throws their beliefs right back at them and asks them to explain it.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s comical, because what is almost always exposed is that these people are just reciting things they\u2019ve memorized. And when certain questions are asked, they have knee-jerk reactions and answers. It\u2019s quite illustrative to watch, because you learn that these people are not thinkers at all. They\u2019re not really engaged. They\u2019ve just been brainwashed and programmed with propaganda, and they know how to recite it. But they\u2019re also, I think, undergoing lessons on how not to let Tucker Carlson get to them.<\/p>\n

Last night\u2019s example — have you heard about this? “The Western Kentucky University student government voted Tuesday in favor of reparations for black students in the form of free tuition. The resolution, which passed by a vote of 19-10-0, recommends that the university acknowledge slavery as a ‘debt that will never be paid\u2019 and offer free tuition to black students,” regardless whether they have blood links to slavery, the antebellum days or not. It doesn\u2019t matter, because if you\u2019re African-American, you have roots to slavery, whether you do or don\u2019t, you do and you automatically qualify.<\/p>\n

\"\"“The resolution asks that a special task force be created to look into test-optional admissions and admissions weighting based on geographical location, which in theory would make it easier for black students to apply and be accepted to WKU.”<\/p>\n

What that means, there is a resolution that would create a special task force that would basically say that anybody who wanted to go to the school on the basis that they need reparations because they come from a slave past would automatically be admitted.<\/p>\n

And there of course is a leader of this movement. Well, this says Andre (sic) Ambam. That sounds like a male name, right? What I watched last night was a woman and her last name was Ambam, A-m-b-a-m. But let\u2019s just go with what\u2019s written here. “Andre Ambam, one of the resolution\u2019s authors, told the Herald that racial disparity has translated into economic disparity, inhibiting black students from attending college. ‘If you really care about diversity, if you really care about inclusion, if you really care about making this campus safe and accessible to everybody, having the student government\u2019s support of reparation[s] for black students would be amazing,\u2019 Ambam said.”<\/p>\n

Now, as I watched this, a couple of things occurred to me. One thing was, why does anybody go to college? I mean, this woman is like everybody else, primarily from the left, but it\u2019s not just restricted to the left. That is, there is a cultural belief or acknowledgment that you must go to college. You must. It is one of these things that if you don\u2019t do, something odd about you. If you don\u2019t want to, there\u2019s something odd about you. It\u2019s just one of these things you have to do. Now, why?<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m serious with this question. Why? What is the purpose of going to college? If you\u2019re a parent and you are insistent that your kids go to college, why? What is the ultimate aim? If you are a student who desperately wants go to college, why do you want to go to college? Because when you get to the real answer to that question, then something else occurs to me about this whole argument about reparations and other things that I think exposes what\u2019s really going on.<\/p>\n

But I have to take a break now and we\u2019ll continue after this.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, back to this story. And, by the way, it was Andrea. This is a typo. Was not Andre Ambam. It was Andrea Ambam, and that\u2019s what I saw last night on Tucker. And they\u2019ve got a resolution here that they passed at the University of Western Kentucky, or Western Kentucky University suggesting that African-American students be given free tuition as reparations for slavery whether the African-American students have any direct trace to slavery or not. Because there\u2019s been so much discrimination and the discrimination is gonna continue, and the discrimination is never going to end.<\/p>\n

Slavery, according to the Andrea Ambam, is a debt that will never be paid. And, as such, young college students, African-American at Western Kentucky U need to get free tuition as a form of reparations. Now, remember, with everything involving liberalism — like this is proposed as a solution, the solution to what? Well, a solution to the never-ending discrimination that was slavery. A solution to the problem that a lot of kids can\u2019t afford to go to college and their parents can\u2019t afford to send them.<\/p>\n