The second half of this note is a guest blog post by one of my former Tahoe Trading colleagues who went by the acronym SAT; I thank him for finding the news report and contributing this piece to my site.

(First, in the section in brackets below, a few comments from Rossputin…)

[Ed: SAT’s comment is in reaction to a NY Post story about a male black Columbia University professor who sucker-punched a white female colleague in the face while discussing race relations in a bar.  As an alumnus of Columbia, I renew my often-stated opinion that it is deserving of our scorn and of none of our money.

The police have refused to charge Mr. McIntyre with a hate crime, though they did charge him with assault and harrassment.  And although I oppose the very existence of hate crime laws, I am disgusted by the police’s obviously treating this action differently than they would have if the colors of the assailant and victim had been reversed.  Is it not entirely obvious from the story that McIntyre’s actions were motivated by hatred of white people?

Separately from the so-called justice system, I want to see how hard Columbia will try to protect this racist.  Any reasonable place would fire him immediately. But Columbia represents the worst of America and while I think there’s a decent chance he will lose his job, I think it will take an unnecessarily long time with the forces of political correctness and black cries of victimhood initially getting the better of Columbia’s administration, which is not known for its good judgment to begin with.

FYI, here is an excerpt from a bio of McIntyre from a Columbia University site:

From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, Professor McIntyre worked in civil rights and labor organizing in the deep South. His international experience began with travel abroad in 1972 as co-liaison for the first “People to People Friendship Delegation” to the People’s Republic of China and conducted a subsequent study tour in 1979. Other experiences in the international community have included planning studios in Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and South Africa. He also served as director of planning for the Harlem Urban Development Corporation from 1989 to 1994 and advisor to the president of Columbia University on community development and the Empowerment Zone.

While not an explicitly racist bio, it is nevertheless a bio of someone who wants nothing to do with whites. To be clear, I don’t have a problem with his wanting to work with, for, or among anyone he chooses.  I do have a problem with him punching a white person almost certainly because she was white, and then not being treated the same way a white guy would have been treated had he sucker-punched a black guy, much less a black woman.

With that preamble, here are SAT’s thoughts, with a philosophical focus that I particularly appreciate…]