![]() ![]() The annual event, which attracted approximately 400 community members on Zoom, was a conversation between Oluo and Ed Baptist, professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences who focuses on the history of slavery in 19th-century America. And the actual greatness that could arise is a threat to this norm.” “But then there’s also an inverse of that, which is that … people who aren’t (white) men should only be able to accomplish so much. “ always have power, regardless of what they put out into the world, regardless of their skill or talent,” she said. Commemorative Lecture, held March 1, said the white male in America has always enjoyed relatively unfettered passage – usually at the expense of others. Oluo, the featured speaker at the virtual Martin Luther King Jr. “The only thing that really made him exceptional,” said Oluo, author of ““Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America,” released in December 2020, “was his ability to wreak carnage on people and animals, and what a good liar he was.” ![]() ![]() As far as author Ijeoma Oluo is concerned, William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody is hardly the American hero he’s made out to be. ![]()
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