Newsweek ALMOST Hits The Mark

Newsweek Article Stops Short Of The Source: University Presidents

For months I have been telling anyone who will listen that if we want to end the transformation of OKU into wOKeU, we need to focus on the man responsible for that transformation: OU President Joseph Harroz.

Despite Oklahoma’s institutional hesitancy to directly take on OU President Joseph Harroz for his Woke policies, the basic, common sense logic of this message is starting to gain the national traction it deserves in this recent article from Newsweek. But I do need to challenge the focus of the article, as the author still neglects to point the attention at the top of the administrator food chain: University Presidents.

Not a single point in this article by Samuel Abrams can be disputed. From top to bottom, the swamp of the academic managerial class (higher ed. administrators) is overwhelmingly and radically woke. And most of that wokeness can be traced back to colleges of education. But, like many before him, Abrams fails to continue that tracing to focus on the attention on heads of this academic despotism.

Remember, that none of the Vice Presidents of DEI or Deans of Colleges of Education would be in their positions were it not for the support of their University Presidents. In turn, none of these lower tier university administrators will be removed if they have the support of their university presidents.

If you want a complete understanding of why this is true, one need look no further than this documentary about Evergreen College. Evergreen was one of the first universities to employ woke policies via its President George Bridges. This situation eventually led to the resignations of Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying who have become strong voices against the depravity and inherent racism of woke ideology, and the threat it posses to higher education and the country.

What this documentary illustrates in bright and bold colors, is the fact that the woke movement on university campuses began with woke university presidents; is primarily supported and protected by woke university presidents, and will not stop until we the people demand that university presidents themselves be held personally accountable for their policies. That is why I started the Declaration of Independence from wOKeU, but the petition is just the beginning.

Those of us who wish to save OU and all other universities from sliding into self-destruction, must find the courage to stand up and make our voices heard. The loud minority of WokePokes at OU showed us with OU’s 14th President James Gallogly, that just a few loud, committed voices can move that mountain and in doing so, can instantly and possibly permanently change the course of a university. We simply cannot afford to ignore the fact that this method works in both the long and short terms. We must realize that times have changed, and that the ways of making change have changed with them. We gain nothing in the notion that in order to be virtuous and affective, we must be slow and unassuming. In fact, that old world mindset will be our undoing.

J. Mark Ousley, UnWokable