{"id":7748,"date":"2016-12-10T11:03:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T16:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=7748"},"modified":"2018-03-19T22:01:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T03:01:24","slug":"d-a-king-in-the-macon-telegraph-on-illegal-immigration-and-georgias-higher-ed-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/10\/d-a-king-in-the-macon-telegraph-on-illegal-immigration-and-georgias-higher-ed-system\/","title":{"rendered":"D.A. King (and Erroll B. Davis) in the Macon Telegraph: On Illegal Immigration and Georgia’s Higher-Ed System (Note: This is one the MDJ editor, J.K. Murphy declined to publish, even after he edited out the paragraph on the AJC’s Jeremy Redmon. I no longer subscribe to the MDJ)"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The Alliant Energy Corporation, where Davis served variously as President, CEO, and Chairman from 1998 to 2006 when he became Georgia\u2019s USG Chancellor sponsors the Erroll B. Davis, Jr. Achievement Award. But, not all students are eligible. To receive the tuition help, students must be either legal immigrants or, (gulp)\u2026U.S. citizens.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

And white students need not apply.<\/p>\n

Macon Telegraph<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

December 9, 2016<\/p>\n

OPINION<\/p>\n

D.A. King<\/p>\n

Georgia\u2019s former University System of Georgia (\u00a0USG<\/a>\u00a0) Chancellor, Erroll Davis, was recently quoted in the AJC<\/a> as saying that the current policy of keeping illegal aliens out of some USG schools and charging them out-of-state tuition at the remaining institutions equated to segregationist \u201cJim Crow\u201d laws.<\/p>\n

Trained on coverage by the New York Times Institute on Immigration Reporting at UC Berkeley\u2019s Graduate School of Journalism and the Institute for Justice and Journalism on Immigration<\/a>, the AJC\u2019s Jeremy Redmon<\/a> wrote \u201cDavis, who is black, said he sees parallels between the enforcement of those policies today and the Jim Crow era when African-Americans were barred from certain public institutions\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis has had a change of heart on the restrictions. He was chancellor when the above policy was implemented, but he is not alone in the disgusting comparison. The \u201cit\u2019s Jim Crow!\u201d angle on mainstream America\u2019s objection to rewarding illegal immigration is boilerplate rhetoric for the totalitarian, anti-borders crowd.<\/p>\n

Davis\u2019 race-baiting here approaches that of Emiko Soltis who is Executive Director and Professor of Human Rights and Social Movements at something calling itself \u201cFreedom University<\/a>\u201d. According to its website<\/a>, \u201cFreedom University is a modern-day freedom school based in Atlanta. We provide rigorous college preparation classes, college and scholarship application assistance, and leadership development for undocumented students in Georgia.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Erroll Davis photo: USG<\/p><\/div>\n

The \u2018college prep\u2019 courses aimed at victims of borders at Georgia\u2019s FU include *\u2018Border Studies: Immigration, Identity, and the Undocumented Student Movement\u2019<\/p>\n

* A People’s History of the United States
\n* Mindfulness and Compassion: The Science, Theory, and Practice of Meditation
\n* Race, Immigration, and Incarceration in the United States
\n* Human Rights in the United States: History, Theory, and Skill-Building for Social Change
\n* Global Migration in the Americas: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Labor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Use of the word \u201cundocumented\u201d in FU\u2019s self-description is rather amusing, as Soltis herself allowed to the fellow progressives at Atlanta\u2019s WABE radio<\/a> early this year \u201cthe term \u201cundocumented\u201d is racial code.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNone of these bans would\u2019ve been passed if they said, \u201clet\u2019s ban brown students.\u201d Soltis explained to the WABE \u201cCloser Look\u201d crew.<\/p>\n

It looks like both Davis and Soltis may be trying to say that protecting our university system for residents with legal status is a civil rights violation. Or that all minorities are illegal aliens. Or that all illegal aliens are minorities. It\u2019s confusing. Somebody should ask them about it.<\/p>\n

Emiko Soltis is a graduate of Emory University, which is in the news<\/a> for its consideration of implementing a \u201csanctuary policy\u201d for illegal alien students to go along with its already in-place scholarship program for illegals.<\/a><\/p>\n

For readers trying to sort through the confusing priorities of the identity politics\/ illegal alien lobby and keep score on all this, add the fact that former Chancellor Erroll Davis is quite proud of a scholarship program administered in his name.<\/p>\n

The Alliant Energy Corporation, where Davis served variously as President, CEO, and Chairman from 1998 to 2006 when he became Georgia\u2019s USG Chancellor sponsors the Erroll B. Davis, Jr. Achievement Award. But, not all students are eligible. To receive the tuition help, students must be either legal immigrants or, (gulp)\u2026U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n

And white students need not apply.<\/p>\n

To be considered for the Erroll B. Davis Academic Achievement Award,<\/a> student applicants must be \u201cAfrican American, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian, Southeast Asian or from a racial or ethnic group traditionally underrepresented in the fields of Engineering or Business.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maybe WABE will take a \u201ccloser look\u201d at the difference in opinion on college admissions and what constitutes \u201cracial code?\u201d<\/p>\n

Georgia voters have their own opinions on illegal aliens and higher education. In the last state-wide poll, two-thirds of Georgians wanted to bar \u201cthe undocumented\u201d from attending taxpayer-funded state universities – at any tuition rate.<\/p>\n

Sixty-seven percent of people polled in September 2010 by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research for the Georgia Newspaper Partnership<\/a> favor a law requiring proof of legal residency to even attend a Georgia college or university.<\/p>\n

This majority outlook reflects the intent of 2006 state legislation, the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act, part of which was written to keep all illegals out of all tax-funded post secondary schools.<\/p>\n

Regardless of what the soon-to-be President Trump does or does not do in office, Georgia lawmakers should take a stand and clarify state laws on admissions and any public subsidies to any post-secondary education of any illegal aliens.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s not allow Emiko Soltis and Erroll Davis to dictate Georgia\u2019s higher-ed policy. HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

D.A. King is president of the Cobb-based Dustin Inman Society Twitter: @DAKDIS<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The Alliant Energy Corporation, where Davis served variously as President, CEO, and Chairman from 1998 to 2006 when he became Georgia\u2019s USG Chancellor sponsors the Erroll B. Davis, Jr. Achievement Award. But, not all students are eligible. To receive the tuition help, students must be either legal immigrants or, (gulp)\u2026U.S. citizens.” And white students need […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7748"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11578,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7748\/revisions\/11578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}