People can accept or reject what I contribute to the site, but I try to come from a reasoned approach.
UT was academically integrated in 1956. In 1961, while some (cough*SEC*) universities were fighting the National Guard to remain segregated, the students at UT were protesting for racial integration of businesses on the Drag. And partially for those protests, to this day, some racists in Texas call us "sips" and insist we were fighting against "American values."
The University is currently fighting through the legal process ( the Fischer case before the U.S. Supreme Court) to allow the importance of racial diversity to be a factor in admissions. Being the first university system in the south to fully integrate and to 60 years later still be fighting for racial inclusion shoud exempt The University from passing and unsubstantiated accusations of being a racist institution.
Only ignorant individuals can claim UT Austin is on the precipice of being labled a racist institution for not retaining a football coach who has lead the school's football program to the lowest point in its 123 year history.
Charlie Strong may be a lot of things in the eyes of the UT alumni who are paying his salary. Lets get down to brass tacks and admit "successful" isn't anything anyone would call him. Claiming that evaluating his performance so far makes any of the alumni a racist is beyond bullshit. Let's just prepare for this same bullshit argument to be brought up again next year in case the worst (and hightly likely) outcome that Coach Strong is cut loose. Whether they are a football coach or professor and regardless of race, if anyone is reasonably evaluated to be less than amoung the best in their profession, they shouldn't be on the UT campus.
