I’m somewhat puzzled, and both bemused and amused, by a response from a college professor to the preview of the next issue of StAR that I posted earlier today.
Here is her response: “None of these fit the theme of being related to African American and/or African culture and history.”
And here is the reply that I sent to her: “Dear Professor ——–, The theme was “faith and fiction” and was, therefore, unconnected to any particular ethnicity. Faith is for all, irrespective of race; so is fiction.”
lol, welcome to America Joseph! 😀
It’s a February thing, it being ‘black history month’ and all. (Which is weird given the issue in question is for March/April…)
And just think Mr. Pearce, with Obama declaring June LGBT month, someday in the near future, you will have a professor asking you why a future June issue of STAR does not fit the theme of being related to LGBT, and/or LGBT ‘history’.
Good heavens.
Well, once when I was teaching Brit Lit I, a student demanded to know how Beowulf related to African-Americans. I had to confess that his suspicions were right: no relationship at all.
There’s an easy solution to this. Do a cover with the newly canonized Josephine Bakhita, throw in a few poems on St. Martin de Porres, an icon of St. Augustine of Hippo, discuss the theology of St. Irenaus, the dating of Easter by Pope St. Victor I, the deaths of the martyrs in Uganda and other parts of Africa, and the Ugandan Christain Churches that have partially rejected the mainstream Anglican and Episcopalian slide into modernity. You could even talk about Clarence Thomas (Catholic pro-natural law Supreme Court Justice).
But something tells me this isn’t quite the sort of “African American and/or African culture and history” that is being looked for. 🙂