Some years ago, when the Durham School of the Arts had just opened, I went over on my lunch hour for an unofficial tour of the place. After all, I had two kids who were in the target ages for moving to the new school.
Upon entering the main door, I saw a very large piece of student art that made my decision for me. It was a copy of the famous Che Guevara poster that appears on t-shirts of misguided youths and adults the world over. It was then that I knew that DSA would just be a publicly funded left-wing academy.
Radio host and columnist Dennis Prager has some thoughts on the Che cult and the appeal that communism has for liberals in his column today: “Why Doesn’t Communism Have as Bad a Names as Nazism?”:
There are Mao Restaurants in major cities in the Western world. Can one imagine Hitler Restaurants? Che Guevara T-shirts are ubiquitous, yet there are no Heinrich Himmler T-shirts.
This question is of vital significance. First, without moral clarity, humanity has little chance of avoiding a dark future. Second, the reasons for this moral imbalance tell us a great deal about ourselves today.
It told me a lot about the administration at DSA. I sent my kids to Riverside High School and have never regretted it.
