Jonathan Turley – Professor Sundiata Cha-Jua, a prominent history and African-American studies professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is under fire after using racist slurs to describe Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker.  While the racist attack has drawn criticism on conservative sites, there has been no opposing statement or protest at the university.

The media has also been largely quiet. The contrast to past controversies involving conservative faculty members again raises the concern over a double standard applied by colleges and universities as well as the media. Thus far, the response to the use of racist slurs or tropes against Republicans has been the familiar sound of crickets. Cha-Jua wrote in The News-Gazette Walker is “incompetent, subliterate and coonish.” Continue reading →