Students: Fight Racsim! Decline Your Rhodes Scholarships!

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29. Is this sarcasm?

Last edited Tue Nov 24, 2015, 04:08 PM - Edit history (4)

Old title of post: Fight. Urge. To. Post. To. Stupid. Threads.

Trollish. Dimwittedness. Too. Powerful. To. Resist. Must. Respond.

[font color="red"]ETA, at 3:00 p.m.: Now there's a sig line, "If you're pissed off at this. Stop and think. It may be scarcasm. If you're not sure, ask me."

This is sarcasm, right?[/font]

It's getting harder at DU to tell. Anyway, here's one of this year's Rhodes Scholars:

Ericka M. Wheeler Named First Black Female Rhodes Scholar from Mississippi



Millsaps College senior Ericka M. Wheeler

(Photo/Courtesy Millsaps College via AP article)

by: Jeff Amy Associated Press
Nov 22, 2015

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Millsaps College senior Ericka M. Wheeler is a double major in English and history who has plans to become a physician after watching her grandfather suffer from Alzheimer’s disease. Her journeys so far have taken her from Mississippi to Cambodia and Cuba and her next stop will be England, as a Rhodes Scholar. Millsaps announced Saturday that Wheeler, who is the first African-American woman from Mississippi to claim the prestigious honor, has been chosen as one of 32 U.S. men and women who will enter Oxford University next fall for postgraduate study.
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Wheeler, who wrote a thesis tracing how police brutality and race have been treated in fiction since the 1930s, attended Greenwood High School for two years, followed by her junior and senior year at the Mississippi School of Math and Science in Columbus.

From American Rhodes Scholarships Winners 2016:

Profiles of Winners

DISTRICT 7

Mississippi

Ericka M. Wheeler, Carrollton, is a senior at Millsaps College, where she is a pre-med student with majors in History and English. Her honors thesis “Crime, Race and Police Brutality through Historical Fiction” navigates complicated historical and autobiographical issues. Ericka is President of Millsaps College Intercultural Student Organization and Co-President of Millsaps College Gospel Choir. She is an Alzheimer’s disease social activist who has sought to assist Alzheimer’s patients capture their memories in short-story booklets. Raised in the heart of the rural Mississippi Delta, Ericka has a passion for social justice borne in a desire to return from her studies to pursue issues of race and health in Mississippi. At Oxford, she will pursue an M.Phil. in Medical Anthropology.

P.S. Your title, "Students: Fight Racsim! Decline Your Rhodes Scholarships!"?

The word you're looking for is "racism," not "racsim." {Autocorrect is going berserk.}

Possible example of Poe's Law?